Sabil of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh, Masjid al-Haram

On the site of this sabil stood a small room beside the house of Zamzam with a pool filled from the well; in 807 AH it was turned into a vaulted pool with spouts in its wall towards al-Safa for ablution. ¹ Al-Haddad cites al-Fasi that the place was demolished in the first ten days of Dhu al-Hijja 817 AH, because it was said some ignorant people used it to wash after relieving themselves, and a drinking sabil was built in its place, completed in Rajab 818 AH / 1415 by order of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh. ^{3 1}

A square house with three large iron grilles, each under a finely made wooden panel, one facing the Kaaba and two facing al-Safa, a basin under each window, a pool, a painted ceiling, a door towards al-Safa, a painted wooden canopy outside topped by carved stone merlons, its interior whitewashed and its exterior faced with coloured stone. ¹

The author sees it as modelled on the Mamluk sabils of Egypt and, since it predates the sabil of Fayruz al-Saqi (830 AH / 1426), which Nuwaysir held the earliest three-window sabil, as pushing the beginnings of the type back before Barsbay and perhaps before al-Mu'ayyad himself; it is the earliest known three-window sabil so far. ^{1 4 2} Its coloured, striped stonework is another of its features. ⁴