Lajin came down from the fortress of Ṣafad with a group of emirs; their iqṭāʿs (fiefs) were restored to them (1), and he treated them with generosity and honor.
In the opening days of Ramaḍān the judge Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿa was summoned by express courier from the Holy Jerusalem—where he was acting as magistrate and preacher—to Egypt. He entered Cairo on the fourteenth (2) of the month, and that very evening (3) broke his fast at the residence of the vizier Ibn al-Salʿūs, who showed him the utmost courtesy and respect. It was the eve of Friday. The vizier then publicly announced the dismissal of Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz and the appointment of Ibn Jamāʿa (4) as Chief Judge of Egypt. The other judges came to congratulate him, and the court notaries presented themselves for his service (5). Along with the chief judgeship he received the pulpit of al-Azhar Mosque and the teaching chair of the Ṣāliḥiyya Madrasa. He rode out clad in the khilʿa (robe of honor) and the ṭarḥa (judicial scarf), and ordered the remaining judges to continue wearing their scarves. He then delivered the sermon in al-Azhar, proceeded to the Ṣāliḥiyya and lectured there on the following Friday in a well-attended session (6).
When the next Friday arrived, the sultan instructed (7) al-Hākim bi-Amr Allāh to deliver the sermon himself that day and to mention therein that he had vested the sultanate in al-Ashraf Khalil ibn al-Manṣūr. Accordingly, he donned a black khilʿa and recited to the congregation the same khuṭba (sermon) (8) that he had preached during the Ẓāhirid era, a text composed by Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn al-Maqdisī in 660 AH—thus more than thirty years separated the two sermons. This took place in the mosque of the Citadel of the Mountain. Thereafter Ibn Jamāʿa continued to preach in the Citadel before the sultan, appointing deputies to preach in al-Azhar (9).
As for Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz, the vizier subjected him to ruinous measures, confiscation, and severe humiliation (10), stripping him of all his posts—seventeen in number, including the judgeship, the pulpit, supervision of the awqāf, the office of shaykh al-shuyūkh, oversight of the treasury, and major professorships. About forty thousand were seized from him, not counting his mounts and many other possessions, yet he showed neither submission nor humility. Later the vizier relented, became reconciled with him, and appointed him to the Shāfiʿī teaching chair.
A khatma (complete Qur’an recitation) was held at the tomb of al-Manṣūr on the night of Monday, the 4th of Dhu al-Qiʿda, attended by judges and emirs (11). The sultan and the caliph came down to them at the time of suḥūr, and after the recitation the caliph delivered an eloquent sermon urging the people to launch a campaign against the lands of Iraq and to rescue them from the hands of