In the month of Ṣafar, al-Malik al-Kāmil Muḥammad, the son of al-ʿĀdil, arrived before his father with a large contingent of Turkmen and with troops drawn from al-Jazīrah, al-Ruhā, and Ḥarrān. At that, the Egyptian army withdrew and scattered to the four winds; al-Ẓāhir returned [to his kingdom in Aleppo, al-Asad to his domain in Ḥoms, and al-Afdal to the Egyptian lands] (1).
Thus al-ʿĀdil was delivered from the stratagems of his enemies, even though he had already resolved to surrender the city—[indeed, he had yielded, but Allah granted deliverance; then] (2) the Naṣirī emirs were dispatched in pursuit of al-Afdal to bar him from entering Cairo. They wrote to al-ʿĀdil urging him to hasten his march toward them (3) [and to come to them in person] (4); he therefore set out at once, attentive to their counsel and compliant with it. Al-Afdal barricaded himself in the mountain citadel (5), weakened and demoralized, while al-ʿĀdil encamped by the Lake—[seizing sole control of Egypt, safe from any partner in rule] (6).
His nephew al-Afdal then descended to him in humble submission [though once he had been held in awe and esteem] (7). Al-ʿĀdil granted him certain districts in al-Jazīrah and banished him from Syria because of his misconduct (8). After that, al-ʿĀdil entered [the royal palace in Cairo] (9), reinstated the chief judgeship in favor of Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Darbās al-Mārānī (10) al-Kurdi (11), and kept the Friday sermon and the coinage in the name of his nephew al-Manṣūr—[yet in reality] (12) he himself wielded authority. He appointed al-Ṣāḥib Ṣafī al-Dīn ibn Shukr (13) as vizier on account of his decisiveness, courage, nobility, and piety.
The sultan then wrote to [his son, King] (14) al-Kāmil, summoning him from al-Jazīrah so that he might confer upon him the sovereignty of Egypt (15) and entrust its stewardship to him. Al-Kāmil duly arrived; al-ʿĀdil rode out to meet him, honored and respected him, embraced him, and clasped him to his breast. Al-ʿĀdil then assembled the jurists and sought their legal opinion concerning the validity of the sovereignty of his nephew al-Manṣūr ibn al-ʿAzīz, who was but a ten-year-old child; they ruled that