and along its southern colonnade he constructed a pool and a shadhurwān (1) (a masonry water-ledge). In that spot there had formerly been one of the canals (2) from which the people drew benefit (3) whenever the Baniyas River (4) ran dry; the canal was removed and this shadhurwān was set up in its place. I say: it was later altered yet again (5) and replaced by shop-stalls.
In the same year, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir summoned his deputy in Damascus, Emir Aqūsh, who came to him in full obedience, while Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Ḥiṣnī stood in for him (6) until he returned honored and respected (7).
That year as well, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir appointed in Egypt judges from the remaining legal schools (8), granting each independent authority to adjudicate and to install sub-judges in the provinces just as the Shāfiʿī judge did. Thus, the Shāfiʿī judiciary went to al-Tāj ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bint al-Aʿaz (9); the Ḥanafī bench to Shams al-Dīn Sulaymān (10); the Mālikī bench to Shams al-Dīn al-Subkī (11); and the Ḥanbalī bench to Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī (12). The appointments were made on Monday, the 22nd of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, in the Dār al-ʿAdl (13).
The reason for this measure was the frequent hesitation of Qadi [Tāj al-Dīn] ibn Bint al-Aʿaz in cases that diverged from the Shāfiʿī school and conformed to other schools. Emir Jamāl al-Dīn Aydughdi al-ʿAzīzī (14) advised the Sultan to name a separate judge (15) for each school, each to rule in accordance with his own madhhab, and the Sultan agreed, for he valued his counsel and opinions (16).
(1) In MSS. A and B the reading is minhu (from it).
(2) In MSS. A and B the reading is wa kāna fī mawḍiʿihā qanāh (and there was a canal in its place).
(3) In the printed edition the reading is waḥdahā (alone).
(4) The printed edition reads Mānās (a corruption).
(5) In MSS. A and B the reading is thumma ghayyara dhālika (then he changed that).
(6) In MSS. A and B the reading is al-Amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Āqūsh al-Najībī fa-sāra ilayhi samʿan wa-ṭāʿah wa-qad nāba (the emir Jamāl al-Dīn Āqūsh al-Najībī then set out to him in obedience and submission, having deputed [a representative]).
(7) In MSS. A and B the reading is muʿazzizan (honoring).
(8) In MSS. A and B the reading is al-diyār al-miṣriyya (the Egyptian territories).
(9) The biography of Ibn bint al-Aʿazz will be included under the events of 680 AH in this volume, God willing.
(10) As in the original sources and his own references: Sadr al-Dīn. His biography will be included under the obituaries of 677 AH in this volume, God willing.
(11) The biography of al-Subkī will be included under the obituaries of 669 AH in this volume.
(12) The biography of al-Qāḍī Muḥammad al-Maqdisī will be included under the obituaries of 676 AH in this volume, God willing.
(13) MS. A reads bi-dār al-ʿaql; MS. B reads bi-dār al-ʿazl; both are corruptions.
(14) The biography of Aydghidī will be included under the obituaries of 664 AH in this volume, God willing.
(15) In MSS. A and B the reading is Qāḍī al-Quḍāt (Chief Judge).
(16) This report concludes in MSS. A and B with fa-ajābahu ilā dhālika fa-faʿala kamā dhakar-nā (He replied to that and did as we mentioned).