—to the governor al-Muʿtamid. He questioned her, and she related her story; he approved of what she had done, released her, and treated her kindly. ⦗1⦘
Sibṭ ⦗2⦘ relates the following: “One day ⦗3⦘, as I was coming out of Bab al-Faraj, I saw a man carrying a drum while drunk. I ordered that he receive the prescribed punishment, then told the guards to smash the drum, and there appeared a large wineskin (zukra) full of wine; ⦗4⦘ they split it open. al-ʿĀdil had forbidden the pressing of wine or the transport of any of it into Damascus altogether, so people resorted to every sort of ruse and subtle stratagem. Sibṭ ⦗5⦘ continues: I asked him, ‘How did you know there was something inside the drum?’ He answered, ‘I noticed that his legs were trembling as he walked, so I realized he was carrying something heavy inside the drum.’ ⦗6⦘
He had many other remarkable exploits of this kind. Later al-Muʿaẓẓam dismissed him—harboring resentment against him—and imprisoned him in the Citadel for about five years. A proclamation was made throughout the city inviting anyone who claimed that he had taken from him so much as a single mustard seed to come forward, yet no one appeared.
When he died (may Allah have mercy on him) he was buried in his own mausoleum ⦗7⦘, adjacent to the Madrasa of Abū ʿUmar on the Shām side, south of the market; near his tomb stands a mosque that bears his name—may Allah have mercy on him.
The founder of the Shabliyya located on the Ṣāliḥiyya road ⦗8⦘ is Shibl al-Dawla Kāfūr al-Ḥusāmī, affiliated with Ḥusām al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Lājīn, the freedman ⦗9⦘ of Sitt al-Sham. It was he who, at the urging of his mistress Sitt al-Sham, undertook the construction of the Shāmiyya Barrāniyya; he also built the Shabliyya for the Ḥanafis and, beside it, a khānqāh for the Sufis, which had been his own residence. He endowed the canal, the mill, and the vaulted portico ⦗10⦘, and he opened for the public a road from the cemetery west of the Shāmiyya Barrāniyya to the ʿAyn al-Kursh road ⦗11⦘. Previously the people had no path to the mountain from that quarter and had to pass by the Masjid al-Ṣafī in al-ʿUqayba. His death occurred