he recited:
[in the basīṭ metre]
When the ruler of Syria assumed its judgeship—Chief Judge Abū al-ʿAbbās, the man of open-handed bounty (1)—
After seven lean years, his attendant proclaimed,
“This is the year in which the people shall be granted relief through blessings.”

Saʿd al-Dīn (2) ibn Marwān al-Fāriqī (3) said, in the wāfir metre:
You made Syria taste seven years of drought
On the day you left it, a gracious leave-taking;
But when you returned to it from the land of Egypt,
You poured over it, from your two hands, a Nile.

Another poet (4) composed, in the muḫallaʿ al-basīṭ metre:
I beheld the people of Syria, every one of them—
None among them was ever displeased;
Good reached them after evil,
And the time is now expansion without contraction;
They were given joy in exchange for sorrow—
Time has judged with equity;
After long-drawn anguish they rejoiced
At the coming of one judge and the removal of another;
All of them stand between gratitude and complaint
For what the future holds and what is past.

Al-Yūnīnī (5) relates: On Wednesday, the thirteenth of Ṣafar, the lesson was announced (6) at the Ẓāhiriyya (7). The deputy of the sultanate, Aydumur al-Ẓāhirī, attended, and it was a crowded session at which the judges were present. The Shāfiʿī lecturer was Shaykh Rashīd al-Dīn ʿUmar (8) ibn Ismāʿīl (9) al-Fāriqī, while the Ḥanafī lecturer was Shaykh Ṣadr al-Dīn Sulaymān al-Ḥanafī (10). The construction of the madrasa had not yet been completed (11).

In Jumādā al-Ūlā, the aforementioned Ṣadr al-Dīn Sulaymān assumed the Ḥanafī judgeship in place of Majd al-Dīn ibn al-ʿAdīm (12).