Also in that same year: Sultan Muhammad invested the emir Aq Sunqur al-Bursuqi (1) with Mosul and its districts, ordering him to fight the Franks. Toward the end of the year he met them in battle, seized Edessa (2) and razed it, took Saruj (3) and Samsat, plundered Mardin (4), and captured the ruler’s son, Iyaz ibn Ilghazi. Sultan Muhammad then sent an envoy to threaten him, whereupon Aq Sunqur fled to Tughtakin, lord of Damascus, and the two agreed to rebel against Sultan Muhammad (5). Numerous engagements (7) followed between them and the deputy of Homs, Qara Khan ibn Qaraja (6), until they eventually concluded a truce.
That year likewise: the Frankish wife of the lord (8) of Mar‘ash (9) assumed power after her husband’s death—may Allah curse them both.
Also that year: the commander of the armies, Abū al-Khayr Yumn the Eunuch, led the people in the pilgrimage, and the pilgrims praised the Hajj performed under his leadership.
Then the year 509 AH began.
In it: Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad b. Malikshah (10), sovereign of Iraq, dispatched a large army under the emir Bursuq b. Bursuq (11) against Ilghazi, lord of Mardin, and Tughtakin, lord of Damascus (12), to fight them for their rebellion against the sultan and for omitting his name from the khuṭbah (13); once that task was completed, he was to proceed (14) to wage war on the Franks. When the army approached Syrian territory, the rulers of Mardin and Damascus fled and aligned themselves with the Franks. The emir Bursuq then advanced to Kafartab, stormed it, and carried off the women and children who were inside.