, al-Ḥadīth al-Kāmiliyya (the Kāmiliyya House of Hadith), the Jāmiʿ Ibn Ṭulun (Ibn Ṭulun Mosque), the Ṣāliḥiyya, and the Nāṣiriyya, and he enjoyed (1) abundant favor from the sultan.
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Zarʿī was confirmed as judge of the army and as lecturer at the Ḥākim Mosque, and a decree was issued that he sit with the judges, between the Ḥanafī and the Ḥanbalī, in the Dār al-ʿAdl before the sultan (2).
At the beginning of Jumādā I, the judge Najm al-Dīn al-Dimashqī (3), deputy of Ibn Ṣaṣrā, testified against himself, declaring the sale of the property purchased (4) by Ibn al-Qalansī from the estate of al-Manṣūrī in al-Ramthā (5), al-Thūjah (6), and al-Faḍāliyya (7) void, on the grounds that it had been concluded for less than the going price. The other judges ratified his ruling, and Ibn al-Qalansī was brought to the Dār al-Saʿāda, where suit was filed against him for the revenues involved, and he was placed under restraint there. Thereafter the chief judge, Taqī al-Dīn the Ḥanbalī, upheld the sale and overturned al-Dimashqī’s judgment, and the remaining judges executed the Ḥanbalī’s verdict.
In this same month an assessment was imposed upon the people of Damascus of 1,500 cavalrymen, at 500 dirhams per rider; it was levied on both private property and waqf endowments, and the populace suffered greatly. A petition reached the preacher Jalāl al-Dīn, who in turn appealed to the judges. At dawn on Monday, the thirteenth of the month, the people gathered (8) in solemn assembly; they brought out the ʿUthmānī Qurʾān codex, the Prophetic relic, and the caliphal banners, and they stood in the ceremonial procession. When Karāy saw them he boiled with anger, cursed the qadi (9) and the preacher (10), struck Majd al-Dīn al-Tūnisī (11), and ordered them detained, then released them on surety and bail. The public was deeply aggrieved, yet God granted him no respite beyond ten days: a sudden mandate arrived, he was dismissed and imprisoned, and the people rejoiced mightily (12). [It is said that Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn learned of the affair from the people of Syria and informed the sultan, who immediately sent orders and had him seized with the harshest of seizures] (13).
The circumstances of his arrest were these: Amīr Sayf al-Dīn Arghūn, the dawādār, was sent ahead and took up quarters in the citadel. When Thursday, the twenty-third of Jumādā I, came, a splendid robe of honor was conferred upon Amīr Sayf al-Dīn Karāy; he put it on and kissed the threshold,