Ibn al-Sal'us revived the importance of the office of wazir, after its role in the sultanate's hierarchy had declined in the later years of Ayyubid rule. He was regularly accompanied by Mamluk dignitaries and the four chief Muslim judges when he had an audience with al-Ashraf Khalil, supported him unreservedly. As wazir, he commissioned the construction of a ribat (hospice) along the northern wall of the Haram ash-Sharif (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem. By 1310, the ribat was known as the Ribat Emir Salar after the 14th-century emir, Salar, and was in use until at least the early 15th century. He was initially well-liked by the Mamluk emirs, but as he behaved arrogantly toward them, they became hostile toward him and came to resent his influence with the sultan. He had personal conflicts with the na'ib as-saltana (viceroy), Emir Baydara al-Mansuri, and the atabeg al-asakir (commander in chief), al-Shuja‘i. In early 1292, Ibn al-Sal'us informed al-Ashraf Khalil that Baydara was accruing far more revenue than the sultan from Upper Egypt, to which the sultan reacted by confiscating part of Baydara's iqta (fief). 1293, Ibn al-Sal'us instigated al-Ashraf Khalil's wrath against Baydara during a hunting trip in Buhayra (western Nile Delta) by informing him of Baydara's seizure of the sultan's tax revenues from Alexandria. Al-Ashraf Khalil scolded Baydara, struck him in the head in the presence of other emirs and threatened to allow Ibn al-Sal'us to torture him in prison.