On Wednesday, the sixth of Jumada al-Akhirah, the lesson (1) at the Najībiyyah (2) was delivered by Bahāʾ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAjamī al-Ḥalabī, substituting for Shaykh Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, who had passed away. Ibn Ṣaṣrā and a number of notable scholars were present.

That year the Prayer of Raghaʾib (3) was performed on the night of mid-Shaʿbān (4) in the Great Mosque of Damascus, although Ibn Taymiyyah had abolished it four years earlier. When the eve of the fifteenth arrived, the chamberlain Rukn al-Dīn Bībars al-ʿAlāʾī came and prevented the people from entering the mosque that night; its doors were locked, so many slept in the streets and suffered great discomfort. His sole purpose was to shield the mosque from idle talk, obscenity, and disorder.

On the seventeenth of Ramaḍān the Ḥanbalī judge Taqī al-Dīn ruled that the blood of Muḥammad al-Bājarbaqī (5) was inviolable, and he placed on record the enmity between him and the six witnesses who had testified against him before the Mālikī judge when that judge had ordered his execution. Among those who attested to this hostility were Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (6), Zayn al-Dīn ibn al-Sharīf ʿAdnān (7), Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Shaykh al-Sālimiyyah (8), and others.

In the same year Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Zamlakānī assumed oversight of the Bureau of the Emirs’ Estates (9) in place of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī, toward the end of Ramaḍān. He was invested with a taylasan and a robe of honor, and attended the Dār al-ʿAdl duly attired.

On the night of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, Emir Sayf al-Dīn Salar, the deputy ruler of Egypt, summoned the three chief judges and a number of scholars—the Shāfiʿī, Mālikī, and Ḥanafī judges, together with the jurists al-Tājī (10), al-Jazarī (11), and al-Namrawī (12). They discussed releasing Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah from prison, and some of those present set conditions upon him for that, among them that he