On that very day, before the congregational prayer, Judge ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Ṣāʾigh (1) was placed under guard and imprisoned in the Citadel (2). Ibn al-Ḥuṣayrī (3), the Ḥanafī deputy judge, drafted an official memorandum affirming that he was holding on deposit a sum of eight thousand dinars on behalf of Ibn al-Iskāf. The affair had been stirred up by a man who arrived from Aleppo by the name of Tāj al-Dīn ibn al-Sinjārī. The judgeship was then entrusted to Bahāʾ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī (4), who sat in judgment on Sunday, the twenty-third of Rajab, and forbade people to visit Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh. He also pursued (5) a second memorandum alleging that the judge held a further deposit of twenty-five thousand dinars belonging to al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl ibn Asad al-Dīn. Supporting this charge were Ibn al-Shākirī (6), al-Jamāl ibn al-Ḥamawī, and others; they even raised a third accusation. A tribunal was convened in which Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh was treated with extreme severity (7); the assembly showed open hostility toward him, and he was returned to his cell.

Taking up his cause were the deputy of the sultanate, Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājin, together with a group of amirs. They spoke to the sultan on his behalf, whereupon the sultan released him and he went back to his home. People came to congratulate him on Monday, the twenty-third of Shaʿbān (8). He moved from the ʿĀdiliyyah to his house on Darb al-Naqqāshah (9) and spent most of his time seated in the mosque opposite his residence.

In Rajab, Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Ṣaṣrā assumed the post of ḥisbah (market inspector) for Damascus.

In Shaʿbān, the preacher Jamāl al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Kāfī (10) took over the teaching position at the Ghazāliyya (11) in place of the preacher Ibn al-Harrastānī (12); the Dawlaʿiyya (13) was taken from him and given to Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Najjār (14), who served as agent of the Bayt.