Al-Umari dismissed from the Damascus chancery, Safar 743/1342

Shihab al-Din was dismissed from the Damascus chancery on 3 Safar 743 (July 1342), his brother Badr al-Din Muhammad taking his place; he was held at the Fulkiyya four months, then summoned to Egypt over the many complaints against him until his brother Ala al-Din interceded and he returned to Damascus out of office — never to hold one again ^{1 2}.

The complaints against him multiplied until they brought him down; al-Dhahabi, who heard hadith with him from Sitt al-Qudat bint al-Shirazi, credits him with a long reach in the two crafts and brilliance in the two rhetorics ^{1 2}.