In Egypt, authority rested with al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr ibn al-Kāmil. A long chain of events followed, the upshot of which was that al-Ṣāliḥ seized the Egyptian domains and imprisoned his brother, while his uncle, al-Ṣāliḥ ʿImād al-Dīn, gained control of Damascus. The two contended for the throne for many years until Egypt and Syria finally came to rest under Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb.

In 636 AH (1): the Franks captured Valencia together with other parts of the Iberian Peninsula.

In 637 AH (2): al-Ṣāliḥ ʿImād al-Dīn stormed Damascus, took the city, secured the Citadel under a pledge of safety, and then broke that pledge. He imprisoned al-Mughīth ʿUmar, the son of al-Ṣāliḥ. The emirs deserted al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn and swore allegiance to his uncle, while Najm al-Dīn remained with his mamluks in the Ghawr. His cousin al-Nāṣir, lord of al-Karak, then seized him, held him in honourable custody, and later took him to Egypt, whereupon he gained the throne. Najm al-Dīn used to say:

‘Al-Nāṣir has saddled me with tasks no one could accomplish: that I capture for him Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo—or else the Jazīrah, Mosul, Diyār Bakr, and half of Egypt—and that I hand over to him half of all that lies in Egypt’s treasuries. I swore to him while under his dominance.’

After al-Dawlaʿī, the Friday pulpit of Damascus was assigned to Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām. He removed the two gilded standards, replacing them with black ones inscribed in white, and only a single mu’adhdhin was permitted to call the adhān before him. Al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl ordered the preachers to mention the ruler of Rūm in the khuṭbah alongside his own name.

At the Festival, al-Mustanṣir bestowed robes of honour upon the dignitaries of his court; Ibn al-Sāʿī reckoned the number of garments at thirteen thousand (3).