Scholars sought his decisions on matters of law, and the number of his patients increased, especially after he became a court physician to al-Fadil, Saladin's vizier. Save her from waning. My duties with the Sultan are very heavy. My antechambers are filled with people, Jews and gentiles, nobles and commoners, judges and bailiffs, friends and foes-a mixed multitude who await my return. I dismount from my animal, wash my hands, go forth to my patients, and entreat them to bear with me while I partake of some slight refreshment-my only meal of the day.
Patients go in and out until nightfall, and sometimes into the night.
Some return and read with me after the afternoon service until the evening prayers. In this manner I spend the Sabbath day. Maimonides lived the biblical three score years and ten, being called to eternity on December 13, 1204. In Fostat three days of mourning were observed. His remains were taken to Tiberias, where his tomb has been a place of pilgrimage to the present day.