827 AH, 01/08
The reading began of the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī before the sultan. The qāḍīs and mashāyikh al-ʿilm, and al-Harawī, Ibn al-Jazarī, kātib al-sirr Najm al-Dīn b. Ḥijjī, his nāʾib Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muzhir, Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ, nāẓir al-jaysh, and the fuqahāʾ whom al-Muʾayyad appointed were present. In this year the presence of the kātib al-sirr and his nāʾib, and the presence of the nāẓir al-jaysh were new. The custom from the days of al-ʾAshraf Shaʿbān b. Ḥusayn was that the reading of al-Bukhārī would begin on the first day of Ramaḍān, and that only the qāḍī al-quḍāt al-shāfiʿī, and al-shaykh Sirāj al-Dīn ʿUmar al-Bulqīnī, and a small party would listen to the ḥadīth, and it would finish on the 27th. A khilʿa would be given to the qāḍī al-quḍāt and he would ride in full splendor with a sash out from the royal stable. The situation continued in that manner until al-Muʾayyad Shaykh became sultan. Then the reading began from the first of the month of Shaʿbān to the 27th of Ramaḍān. He summoned the four quḍāt al-quḍāt and the mashayikh al-ʿilm, and a number of requested individuals also. Discussions occurred between them and he moderated, settling the unresolved arguments. Sultan [al-ʾAshraf Barsbāy] proceeded in this manner. As we have described, the presence of the mubāshirīn was new, and the assembly grew. The entire majlis occurred in the morning. The amirs mocked the disputes and their repetition.