should recant certain points of doctrine. (1) They sent word to him, asking that he appear so they might discuss the matter with him, but he refused to attend and stood his ground. Envoys were dispatched to him six times, yet he persisted in not coming, paid them no heed, and gave them no pledge. The session therefore dragged on until its participants dispersed and went away unrewarded.

On Wednesday, the second of Shawwal, the deputy ruler al-Afram authorized Judge Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini (2) to lead the congregation in prayer and deliver the sermon in the Great Mosque of Damascus in place of Shaykh Shams al-Din, the imam of the Klasa, who had died. That same day he led the noon prayer and preached the Friday sermon, and he continued in both roles until the formal decree to that effect arrived from Cairo.

At the beginning of Dhu al-Qaʿdah the deputy, together with the judges, emirs, and notables, attended, and his sermon was praised.

Also at the beginning of Dhu al-Qaʿdah the construction was completed of the mosque (3) built and endowed by Emir Jamal al-Din, the deputy al-Afram, beside the Nasiri hospice in Ṣāliḥiyyah. He appointed as its Friday preacher Judge Shams al-Din Muḥammad ibn al-ʿIzz al-Ḥanafī (4). The deputy, the judges, and others attended, and the preacher’s khutbah was commended. After the prayer, the administrator Shihab al-Din al-Ḥanafī laid out a banquet in that mosque; he had been the main promoter of its construction and the one who urged it forward, so it came out in perfect and beautiful form. May Allah accept it from them.

On the third of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, Ibn Saṣrā appointed Judge Ṣadr al-Din Sulaymān ibn Hilāl ibn Shibl al-Jaʿfarī (5), the preacher of Dāriyā, to exercise judicial authority in place of Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini, because the latter’s preaching duties kept him from judging.

On Friday, the twenty-ninth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, the Chief Judge Ṣadr al-Din Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Shaykh Ṣafī al-Din al-Ḥanafī al-Buṣrāwī (6) arrived in Damascus from Cairo to assume the Ḥanafī judgeship in place of al-Adhraʿī, while retaining his teaching posts in the Nūriyya and Muqaddimiyya madrasahs (7). The people went out to greet and congratulate him. He held court in the Nūriyya, and his investiture decree was read aloud in the Kindī maqsūra (8) in the eastern corner of the Umayyad Mosque.