Al-ʿImād the secretary writes:
So the Sultan reviewed them throughout the night (1) until dawn drove away the darkness. On that very day he performed the dawn prayer with the ablution of the night prayer. The Sultan was sitting that night with only about twenty men, while the prisoners were present in their hundreds (2); yet Allah preserved him from them—praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.

He then sent them (3) on to Damascus to be confined in its citadel and kept under the protection of its state. Ibn al-Bārazānī (4), the lord of Ramla, ransomed himself after a year (5) for one hundred thousand dinars and a further fifty thousand Tyrian dinars (6), together with the release of one thousand captives from his own lands, and his request was granted. Likewise, a number of them ransomed themselves with large sums of money and splendid gifts. Others died in prison, passing thereby from one gaol to Sijjīn—and thus does Allah (7) deal with the unbelievers.

It so happened that on the very day the Sultan triumphed over the Franks at Marj ʿUyūn, the Muslim fleet fell upon a large transport ship (baṭsa) of the Franks at sea, together with another vessel (8). They carried off a thousand captives from them and then returned to the coast, divinely aided and victorious.

The poets lauded the Sultan for this expedition with numerous panegyrics, and word of it was sent to Baghdad; there the heralds of glad tidings beat their drums in joy and delight at the victory of the Muslims over the criminal enemies of Allah (9).

King al-Muẓaffar Taqī al-Dīn ʿUmar (10) was absent from this battle, being occupied with something even greater (11). The King of Rūm, Qilij Arslān (12), had sent demanding the fortress of Raʿbān (13), claiming that Nūr al-Dīn had wrested it from him and that his son had—