and a number of jurists were in attendance, and a great deal of discussion took place among them. The Friday prayer dispersed them; they then reconvened (1) until sunset, yet the matter remained unresolved.
Two days later, on Sunday, they gathered again by order of the Sultan and spent the entire day together. A larger group than before attended: Najm al-Din Ibn al-Rifʿah, ʿAlaʾ al-Din al-Bāji, Fakhr al-Din Ibn Bint Abī Saʿd, ʿIzz al-Din al-Namrawī, Shams al-Din Ibn ʿAdlān, and a contingent of jurists (2).
The chief judges did not come, although they had been summoned. Some excused themselves on account of illness, others for different reasons, and the Deputy of the Sultanate accepted their excuses (3), not obliging them to attend even though the Sultan had ordered their presence. The session concluded amicably.
That night the Shaykh lodged with the Deputy of the Sultanate.
At dawn on Monday, the twenty-sixth of the month, he wrote a letter to Damascus informing them of his release, that he was staying in the house of Ibn Shuqayr in Cairo, and that Emir Sayf al-Din Salar had decreed that he remain behind (4) Emir Muhanna for a few days so that people might witness his merits and have the opportunity to meet him.