—representing all the legal schools—and Ibn Jumla, the Shafiʿi judge, was brought in while the hall was already filled to capacity. [They did not allow Ibn Jumla to sit; rather, he remained standing](1).

After a good while he was finally seated at the edge of the circle, beside the litter in which Shaykh al-Zahir reclined. Before the other judges the latter charged him with having delivered judgment in his own favor and with having exceeded the limits in the punishment he inflicted. Those present spoke at length, the discussion spread, and from the viceroy’s own attitude they sensed a disparagement of Ibn Jumla and a turning away from him(2) after having once inclined toward him.

The session had not yet adjourned when the Maliki judge Sharaf al-Din pronounced him morally unfit, removed him from office, and ordered his imprisonment. The assembly broke up on that decision, and instructions were issued for Ibn Jumla to be confined in al-ʿAdrawiyya; he was then transferred to the Citadel [a fitting recompense—praise be to Allah alone](3).

He had served on the bench for one year and almost a half, lacking only a few days. He had handled judicial cases well, together with the endowments attached to the office; he was upright, distinguishing the stipends of jurists from those of the poor, and he was noted for firmness, dignity, and courage. Yet in this matter he erred and overstepped the bounds, and so his affair ended thus.

The pilgrimage caravan set out on Monday, the tenth of Shawwal, its amir being Ulji Bughā and its judge Majd al-Din Ibn Hayyan of Egypt.

On Monday the twenty-fourth, Najm al-Din, son of the Chief Judge ʿImad al-Din al-Tarasusi al-Hanafi, took up the professorship at the Hanafi Iqbaliyya in place of Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn ʿUthman ibn Muhammad al-Isfahani, Ibn al-ʿAjami al-Habti, known as Ibn al-Hanbali, a virtuous, devout ascetic who was exceedingly scrupulous about the use of water(4).

As for his successor, Najm al-Din ibn al-Hanafi(5), he was only fifteen years old, yet showed remarkable intelligence, understanding, industry, good appearance, and gravity, so that all who were present congratulated his father. Accordingly he went on to assume the office of Chief Judge during his father’s lifetime—the latter having ceded it to him—and his conduct and rulings were praised.

Later in the month an official record was drawn up against the minister Shams al-Din Ghabriyāl, who died this year, establishing that he had been purchasing properties from the public treasury, converting them into endowments, and managing them as a private owner for his own benefit. Testimony to this effect was given by Kamal al-Din ibn(6) al-Shirazi, his nephew ʿImad al-Din, ʿAlaʾ al-Din al-Qalansi, his cousin ʿImad al-Din al-Qalansi, ʿIzz al-Din ibn al-Munajja, Taqi al-Din ibn Marajil, and Kamal al-Din ibn al-Fuwaira. The deposition was entered by the Hanbali judge Burhan al-Din al-Zurʿi and ratified by the other judges, while the market inspector ʿIzz al-Din al-Qalansi refused to testify, so an order was issued