to its judgeship; he quietly informed al-Qāḍī (1) al-Fāḍil (2), who counseled Ḍiyāʾ to ask to be relieved of the post. Ḍiyāʾ accordingly petitioned for dismissal, it was granted, and he was left in charge of the public treasury.

The Sultan then appointed Ibn Abī ʿAsrūn on the condition that he deputize Judge Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū (3) al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Zakī al-Dīn (4) al-Awḥad (5) in his stead, which he did. Some years later (6) Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid ibn Abī ʿAsrūn assumed the judgeship outright in place of his father Sharaf al-Dīn, whose eyesight had grown weak.

In Ṣafar of this same year (7) Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir endowed the village of Khurram (8) to the Ghazālī lodge and to those engaged there in the Islamic sciences (9) or in whatever learning (10) a jurist requires, assigning its supervision to Quṭb al-Dīn al-Naysābūrī (11), the lodge’s instructor.

In that same month Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (12) married Lady Khātūn ʿIṣmat al-Dīn (13), daughter of Muʿīn al-Dīn Unur. She had been the wife of King Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd and—after his death—had continued to reside in the Citadel, honored, respected, and held in high esteem (14). Her brother, Amīr Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn Unur (15), acted as her guardian in the marriage. Qāḍī Ibn Abī ʿAsrūn attended the contract along with a number of sworn witnesses, and the Sultan (16) spent that night and the following one with her. Two days after consummation he set out for Egypt: on Friday, before the congregational prayer, he mounted, halted at Marj al-Ṣuffar, and then travelled on until nightfall, encamping near al-Ṣanmayn.