He was the first Hanbalī to exercise judicial authority in Egypt, acting as deputy for the qāḍī Tāj al-Dīn Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz. Thereafter Shams al-Dīn, son of Shaykh al-ʿImād, assumed the judgeship in his own right and likewise appointed him as his deputy (1). He later resigned, returned to Syria, and devoted himself to teaching and issuing fatwas until he died, a little over sixty years of age—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.
[Then the year 676 AH commenced]
In that year:
• Al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars, sovereign of the Egyptian, Syrian and Aleppine realms and more besides, passed away, and his son Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad Barakah Khān, entitled [al-Malik] al-Saʿīd, succeeded him.
• Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Nawawī (2), foremost authority of the Shāfiʿī school, died in the same year on the seventh of Muḥarram.
The sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir returned from the lands of Rūm after routing the Tatars at al-Bulusṭayn. Triumphant and aided by Allah, he entered Damascus on a day long remembered. He lodged in the Qasr al-Ablaq, the variegated palace he had built west of the city between the two green parade-grounds. A stream of reports reached him (3) that Abaqa had come to the battlefield, surveyed it (4), lamented the slain Mongols and ordered the execution of the Parvānah. They further related that he intended to march on Syria. The sultan therefore summoned the amirs (5) and convened a council; they resolved to confront Abaqa wherever he might be, and he ordered the imperial pavilion (dihlīz) to be erected beside the palace. Presently news arrived that Abaqa had withdrawn to his own lands, whereupon he ordered (6) the pavilion dismantled and remained in the Qasr al-Ablaq, receiving notables, amirs and officials in the utmost felicity and peace of mind.
As for Abaqa, he ordered (7) the killing of the Parvānah (8)—his deputy over the lands of Rūm—whose name was Muʿīn al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan. He put him to death on suspicion of collusion with al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, claiming the latter’s incursion into Rūm had been encouraged by him. The Parvānah was courageous, decisive, noble-minded and generous, and he inclined toward al-Malik al-Ẓāhir. He was past fifty when he was slain.
Then (9), on Saturday the fifteenth of Muḥarram, the king al-Qāhir (10) Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn