—Emir Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afram—together with the Damascene troops who had lagged behind, in order to attack them and wipe them out, and that was on the second of Muḥarram in the year 705 AH (1). The army itself had already set out before him, contingent after contingent, during Dhu al-Ḥijjah.

On (2) Thursday, the seventeenth of Ṣafar (3), the deputy and the forces with him reached Damascus after Allah had granted them victory over the misguided faction of the Rafidites, the Nusayris, and the adherents of corrupt creeds, whom Allah eradicated from that land. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.