On the fifth of Ramadan, Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Sharīshī arrived from Egypt bearing the commission for the wakāla of the bayt al-māl; on Friday, the seventh of Ramadan, he was vested with a robe of honour(1) and appeared before Ibn Ṣaṣrā at the Kamālī window(2).
On the seventh of Shawwāl the Egyptian vizier Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Shaykhī was deposed; his iqṭāʿ was revoked, an official writ was issued against him, and he was punished until he died in Dhū al-Qaʿda. The vizierate then passed to Saʿd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAṭāʾ, upon whom a robe of honour was conferred.
On Thursday, the twenty-second of Dhū al-Qaʿda, the Chief Qāḍī Jamāl al-Dīn al-Zawāwī ruled that Shams Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Bajrabaqī(3) be put to death and his blood lawfully shed—whether or not he repented or (re)embraced Islam—after a legal brief had been drawn up establishing his unbelief. Among those who testified against him was Shaykh Majd al-Dīn al-Tūnisī, the Shāfiʿī grammarian. Al-Bajrabaqī fled eastward, remaining there for several years before returning after the judge’s death, as will be related.
During Dhū al-Qaʿda the deputy of the sultanate was out hunting. That night a band of Bedouins attacked; the amirs engaged them, killing about half of their number. One emir, Sayf al-Dīn Bahadr Samiz(4), pressed deep into the Bedouin ranks in disdain for them, whereupon one of them struck him with a lance and killed him. The amirs then wheeled upon the Bedouins again, slew many more, and captured a man they alleged was the killer; he was crucified beneath the Citadel, while the slain emir was buried at Qabr al-Sitt (the Lady’s Tomb).
Also in Dhū al-Qaʿda Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Naqīb(5) and a group of scholars criticized the fatwas issued by Shaykh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-ʿAṭṭār(6), shaykh of Dār al-Ḥadīth al-Nūriyya and the Qawṣiyya, claiming they contravened the Shāfiʿī school and contained many inconsistencies. Alarmed, he went over to the Ḥanafīs, who thereby spared his life and allowed him to retain his posts. When the matter reached the deputy of the sultanate he rebuked those who had censured him and issued orders against them. A reconciliation was effected, and the deputy decreed that no strife be stirred up among the jurists(7).