—namely Yāḥyā (1) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāḥyā al-Qurashī. It was proclaimed from the Kamālī lattice-window of the Great Mosque, as related by Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Shāma (2).

Al-Sibt (3) maintains that his dismissal actually occurred in the following year, and he adds that the cause of his ruin was a letter he sent to al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ stating that he had deposited in the royal treasury one million dinars taken from the people. Al-Ṣāliḥ rejected the claim, replying that no more than one million dirhams had been received (4). The judge thereupon sent word, “Then I shall confront the vizier myself,” yet al-Ṣāliḥ never opposed his vizier (5). Acting on the vizier’s counsel, the sultan dismissed him so that the ruler might clear his name of popular accusations; thus he was deposed, and what followed is well known (6).

The supervision of his madrasas was entrusted to Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ (7), who assigned the ʿĀdilīyah to Kamāl al-Tiflisī (8), the ʿAdhrāwīyah to Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī—who succeeded him as judge—the Amīnīyah to Ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī (9), and the Shāmīyah Barrāniyah to Taqī al-Ḥamawī (10). Meanwhile, Qāḍī al-Rafīʿ was made to disappear and the probity of his witnesses was revoked (11).

Al-Sibt (12) further relates: the steward sent him off, under guard, on a mule fitted with the pack-saddle (13) of a certain Christian, to the cave of Afqah in Mount Lebanon near the coast. He remained there for several days, after which two court witnesses were dispatched from Baʿlabakk to attest (14) that he had sold his properties to Amīn al-Dawla. They later declared that they had found him wearing only an undershirt and a short tunic (15), that he had begged them for a scrap of food, saying he had eaten nothing for three days. They fed him from their provisions (16), bore witness against him (17), and departed. Then Dāwūd the Christian came to him and said,