Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Hindī; in attendance were the judges together with Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Fazārī and ʿIlm al-Dīn al-Duwaydarī (1).

Taqī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz then assumed the post of Chief Judge of Cairo in place of Burhān al-Dīn al-Khaḍr (2) al-Sanjārī, who had held the office for a single month after Ibn al-Khuwayyī. Thus, at the beginning of Ṣafar of that same year, all the judicial authority of the Egyptian realms was united in the hands of Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz (3).

In that year (4), Sayf al-Dīn al-Sāmirī (5) was summoned from Damascus to Egypt so that they might purchase from him the quarter-share of Ḥazramā (6) which he had bought from the daughter of Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Mūsā. He informed them that he had placed it in waqf (7). The spokesman in the matter was ʿIlm al-Dīn al-Shujāʿī, a tyrannical man (8) whom al-Malik al-Manṣūr had deputed over Egypt and who sought to curry favor with him by raising funds. Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maqdisī then opened the way for them, alleging that al-Sāmirī had purchased the property from al-Ashraf’s daughter while she was legally incompetent. Through the unjust and ignorant Zayn al-Dīn ibn Makhlūf (9) he secured a formal ruling of her incapacity, annulled the sale from its very foundation (10), and compelled al-Sāmirī to refund twenty years of revenues—two hundred thousand dirhams (11). They also took from him his share in the Zanbaqiyyah estate: seventy (12) thousand plus a further ten thousand to complete the amount, and left him destitute, shivering in the cold (13). After that they certified her competence and bought those same shares from her for whatever price they wished. Next they planned to summon the Damascenes one by one and confiscate their wealth (14), having heard it said that whoever committed injustice in Syria would not prosper, whereas whoever committed injustice in Egypt would succeed. And the matter dragged on