The ʿAdhrāwiyyah Madrasa was handed over to Ṣadr Sulaymān al-Kurdī and the Shāmiyyah al-Jawwāniyyah to Amīn Sālim, so that Ibn al-Wakīl retained nothing but the Ashrafiyyah Dār al-Ḥadīth.
On the night of Monday, the seventh of Ṣafar, al-Najm Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Baṣrawī arrived from Egypt to assume the vizierate in Syria, bringing with him a decree appointing his brother Fakhr al-Dīn Sulaymān to the office of ḥisbah. Both men began exercising their functions in the congregational mosque. They first lodged in Darb Suffūn, known as the Alley of Ibn Abī al-Hayjāʾ, after which the vizier moved to the House of al-Aʿsar by Bāb al-Barīd, while oversight of the treasury remained with ʿIzz al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Qalānisī, brother of Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn.
At the beginning of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, Judge Jamāl al-Dīn al-Zurʿī (1) took up the post of Chief Judge in Egypt in place of Ibn Jamāʿah. Earlier, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, the office of shaykh al-shuyūkh had been taken from Ibn Jamāʿah and returned to al-Karīm al-Āmulī, and the Friday pulpit had likewise been removed from him.
A courier then reached Syria summoning Judge Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Harīr (2) to become Chief Judge of Egypt. He set out on the twentieth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, accompanied by a group who went out to bid him farewell. When he reached the Sultan, the latter honored and exalted him, appointing him to the Hanafi judiciary and to teach at the Nāṣiriyyah, the Ṣāliḥiyyah, and the Ḥākim Mosque. For this he dismissed Judge Shams al-Dīn al-Sarūjī, who survived only a few days before dying.
In the middle of that month seven amirs were arrested in Damascus and fourteen in Cairo⦗3⦘.
During Rabīʿ al-Ākhir the Sultan turned his attention to summoning Emir Sayf al-Dīn Sallār. Sallār came in person, whereupon the Sultan reproached him; his money and revenues were then confiscated over the course of a month, after which he was put to death. Among his effects they found vast quantities of cash, livestock⦗4⦘, estates, weapons, mamluks, mules [and camels]⦗5⦘, as well as donkeys and properties—an enormous amount. As for jewels, gold, and silver, they were beyond measure or description. In short, he had appropriated (6) for himself a huge share of the public treasury and of the Muslims’ wealth that flowed into it. It is said, nevertheless, that he was very generous, open-handed, and beloved by both the ruling elite and the common people—Allah knows best.
He had served as viceroy of the sultanate in Egypt from the year 698 AH until he was killed on Wednesday, the twenty-fourth of this month, and was buried that Thursday night in his own mausoleum in the Qarāfah⦗7⦘—may Allah pardon him.