Al-Mubārak ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (1) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭabbākh al-Baghdādī, had settled in Mecca and its surroundings. There he was a ḥadīth memoriser and the scholar to whom people pointed for knowledge. The day of his funeral (2) was an event of note—may Allah Most High have mercy on him (3).

The Caliphate of al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Mustadīʾ bi-Amr Allāh, may Allah Most High have mercy on him (5):

When his father died on the last day of Shawwāl in the year 575 AH, the emirs, grandees, viziers, and both the elite and the common people pledged allegiance to him. The khuṭbah had already been delivered in his name while his father was still alive, only a short time before the latter’s death. Some said his investiture took place one day before his father passed away, others said a week; yet Allah—Exalted is He—decreed that, after his father’s death, not even two people would disagree about him. He was therefore styled the caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh, and no member of the Banū al-ʿAbbās before him [reigned longer than he, for his caliphate lasted] (6) until the year [of his death in] (7) 622 AH (8). He was intelligent, courageous, and imposing; his life will be related in detail at the time of his death, if Allah Most High wills (9).

On the seventh of Dhū al-Qaʿdah of this same year, the keeper of the treasury, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿAṭṭār (10), was removed from office and put to the utmost humiliation, he and his followers; many (11) of them were killed, and they were paraded through the city. Thus the authority of Caliph al-Nāṣir was firmly established, his awe magnified in the lands and (12) in the hearts of people, and he discharged the burdens of the caliphate as they ought to be borne in all his affairs and concerns (13). When ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā arrived, the rites were performed according to established custom, and Allah knows best (14).