The third concerns the scribes of the diwans, for they are the Muslims’ trustees over the treasuries with respect to what they collect and disburse. He therefore scrutinizes their conduct regarding whatever they have been entrusted with, whether surplus or deficiency.

The fourth concerns complaints from stipend recipients about reductions in their stipends, delays in receiving them, or the supervisors’ unfair treatment of them. He refers to the relevant diwan to determine the fair stipend and pays them accordingly. He also examines whatever the supervisors previously reduced or withheld from them. If their governors had taken it, he recovers it for them; and if they had not taken it, he pays them from the treasury.

The fifth concerns the restoration of usurped property, which is of two types. The first consists of state properties wrongfully seized by tyrannical governors, such as properties taken from their owners through transgression against them. If the official assigned to adjudicate grievances becomes aware of such a case while reviewing affairs, he orders the property returned before its owners lodge a complaint. If he is unaware of it, its restoration depends upon a complaint from its owners. When they lodge such a complaint, he may consult the sultanate’s diwan. If he finds therein a record that the property was seized from its owner, he acts upon that record and orders it returned to him. He may also rely upon legally valid testimony establishing this, although the record found in the diwan is sufficient.