In that same period the governorship of al-Quds (Jerusalem) (1) and al-Khalil (Hebron) was granted to al-Malik al-Awhad, son of al-Malik al-Nasir Dawud ibn al-Muʿazzam.

In Ramadan an order was issued that the Hanbalis were to perform their congregational prayer before the Grand Imam. Formerly they had prayed after him, but once an imam had been appointed to the Companions’ Mihrab, all the congregations began praying at the same time, which produced confusion (2) because of that (3). The regulation was therefore fixed that they should pray before the Grand Imam, at the time of the prayer held at the Mashhad ʿAli in the courtyard, by their mihrab in the third western arcade.

I say: This regulation was altered after the year 720 AH, as will be mentioned (4).

In the closing days of Ramadan Qadi Najm al-Din ibn Sasra arrived from Egypt to assume the judgeship of the armies in al-Sham (5).

At midday on Thursday, the fifth of Shawwal, Qadi Badr al-Din ibn Jamaʿa led the prayer and delivered the sermon from the mosque mihrab, standing in for the preacher-professor (6) Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi. He preached again the following day, and his sermon and recitation were praised. All this came in addition to the judicial office—and other responsibilities—already in his hands.

Early in Shawwal (7) several rescripts arrived from Egypt: one appointing Ibn Sasra to teach at the Ghazaliyya in place of the preacher al-Maqdisi; another assigning Imam al-Din al-Qazwini to the professorship of the Amini school instead of Najm al-Din ibn Sasra; and a further rescript granting his brother, Jalal al-Din, the teaching position at the Zahiriyya Baraniyya in his stead.

During Shawwal the construction of the bathhouse erected by ʿIzz al-Din al-Hamawi at the Mosque of al-Qasab was completed—it is among the finest of hammams. Shaykh ʿAlaʾ al-Din ibn al-ʿAttar assumed the sheikhship of the Dar al-Hadith al-Nuriyya in place of Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi.

In that same year (8) al-Malik al-Mujahid Anas (9), son of al-Malik al-ʿAdil Kitbugha (10), performed the pilgrimage, and they distributed abundant alms from