Shaykh Shams al-Din Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah offered the prayer there, under the auspices of the amir Sayf al-Din Ibn Fadl, lord of the Bedouin, in the Chief Judge’s orchard. The amir had previously expressed displeasure at the Shaykh’s frequent issuance of fatwas on the matter of divorce.

On Friday, the twenty-sixth of that same month, the body of the amir Sayf al-Din Arghun Shah was transferred from the Sufi cemetery to the mausoleum he had built beneath the ṭārimah. Work then began to complete both the tomb and the mosque that stood before it, for death had overtaken him at the hands of Uljibughā al-Muẓaffarī before they were finished. When they killed him—slitting his throat—they buried him by night in the Sufi cemetery, near the grave of Shaykh Taqi al-Din Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ; on the night just mentioned he was moved to his own mausoleum.

On Saturday, the nineteenth of Rajab, the muezzins announced the dawn prayer nearly an hour early. The people prayed in the Umayyad Mosque according to their customary order of imams, but when they realized that the prescribed time had not yet entered, the khatib repeated the dawn prayer after all the imams had concluded, and the prayer was performed a second time—something without precedent.

On Thursday, the eighth of Sha‘ban, Chief Judge ‘Ala’ al-Din (1) Ibn Munajja al-Hanbali died at al-Masmariyyah. The funeral prayer for him was performed at noon in the Umayyad Mosque, then again outside Bab al-Nasr, and he was buried at the foot of Mount Qasiyun—may Allah have mercy on him.

On Monday, the third (2) of Ramadan, early in the morning, Shaykh Jamal al-Din al-Mardawi (3) was summoned from al-Ṣāliḥiyyah to the Dār al-Sa‘ādah. His deed of appointment to the judgeship of his school had reached him a few days earlier. The robe of investiture was brought before the deputy and the remaining judges, and he was urged to put it on and accept the office, but he refused. They pressed him, yet he remained adamant, left in anger, and returned to al-Ṣāliḥiyyah, where the people magnified him even more. The judges stayed that day in the Dār al-Sa‘ādah. After noon they sent for him again; he came from al-Ṣāliḥiyyah, and they continued to persuade him until he accepted, donned the robe, and proceeded to the mosque. His decree of appointment was read after the ‘aṣr prayer; the judges assembled with him, the people congratulated him, and they rejoiced in his piety, probity, learning, and trustworthiness.

A few days later, the jurist Shams al-Din Muḥammad Ibn Muflih al-Hanbali (4) presided in judgment on behalf of Chief Judge Jamal al-Din al-Mardawi al-Maqdisi; Ibn Muflih was his son-in-law.

During the last ten days of Dhu al-Qi‘dah, the jurist, imam, and ḥadith scholar—the eminent Amin al-Din al-Iji al-Maliki—arrived.