819 AH, 05/02/RabīʿII:
There was interest in the building of the Muʾayyadī mosque and the madrasa, near the bāb al-zuwayla. When he asked some of his nadīm for advice about his idea to built a madrasa and a mosque in Cairo to be mentioned there as the sultan before him had done, most of them advised him to take the copy that was the contract of the madrasa of Barqūq at Bayna al-Qaṣrayn, to have a madrasa there, between the madrasa’s of the two sultans. He did not agree with this and said: I made a vow to God to build a madrasa and a mosque on the place of the Shamāʾil prison and to release the people from that place of disaster of which everybody had heard that fear enters the heart of those who enter it. And after that, he started. He first entrusted the command of this to Badr al-Dīn b. Muḥibb al-Dīn, the ʾustādār