Edited sentence: After such acts of severity it's perhaps not surprising that Jamal ad-Din's subjects are said to have adhered strictly to the law.Although he was a pious man , according to Maqrizi he was also terrible to his enemies.As a story Maqrizi relates shows:.During his seven year reign he killed countless numbers of them, and took many of more of them as slaves, then exported them abroad to distant places such as India, Arabia, Hormuz, Hejaz, Egypt, Syria, Greece, Iraq and Persia ,  as a result the Muslim world became "full of Abyssinian slaves".He likewise brought many lands under the Kingdoms rule and increased the splendour of Adal and enriched himself with much booty while a great number of Amhara Christians embraced Islam.He summoned the injured family, and calling together his subjects, ordered his son to be brought before him, as someone deserving punishment on the Biblical principle of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".Jamal ad-Din also enjoyed a considerable reputation for justice.Jamal ad-Din is considered by Muslim historians as one of the most remarkable rulers of Ethiopia's eastern provinces.Jamal ad-Din, however seized his son's hand, and broke it with the blow of an iron bar.On one occasion when his children were small, one of them while playing is said to have struck a child smaller than himself, and broke his hand.The boy cried out in pain and all the present lamented his hard lot, but the sultan merely said to his son, "Feel now yourself what you made the other boy feel.The leading courtiers begged him to show mercy, and the child's family declared that it had no desire for revenge.The stern ruler, however was not to be moved to clemency.The sultan did not hear of this until some time afterwards.When he did he was furious that his courtiers had concealed the matter from him.When his son came forward to suffer the penalty, all the bystanders bewailed loudly, and the injured child's family reiterated that they were in favour of mercy