When the news of what had happened reached al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (1), his companions and the emirs scattered from around him, fearing that al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl might harm their families. Al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb was therefore left alone with only his mamluks and with the mother of his son Khalīl, whereupon the peasants and the gawārina (2)(3) became emboldened against him.

Al-Nāṣir Dāwud, the ruler of al-Karak, sent men who seized him in Nablus, humiliating him by mounting him on a mule with neither spur nor whip, and kept him under arrest for seven months. Al-ʿĀdil in Egypt wrote to al-Nāṣir, asking him to hand over his brother al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb and offering one hundred thousand dinars, but he did not comply (4). Instead he did the very opposite, releasing al-Ṣāliḥ from prison and granting him freedom to ride and dismount as he pleased.

At that, the rulers of Damascus, Egypt, and other regions made war on al-Nāṣir Dāwud. Al-ʿĀdil marched out of Egypt to Bilbays intending to fight him, but the army became disordered, the emirs fell into dispute, they put al-ʿĀdil in chains and confined him in his pavilion (5). They then sent for al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb, summoning him to them. Al-Nāṣir Dāwud, however, refused to let him go until he had extracted from him the pledge that he would seize for him Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, the Jazīra, Diyār Bakr, one half of the kingdom of Egypt, and one half of all that was in the treasuries of stores, money, and jewels.

Al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb said: “I agreed to that under duress, yet even if all the kings of the earth combined they could not fulfil what he had stipulated (6). We set out, and I took him with me, fearing that this affair (7) on the part of the Egyptians might be a ruse. I had no need of him; it was said that he would get drunk, behave recklessly, and oppose sound counsel.”

When al-Ṣāliḥ reached the Egyptians, they proclaimed him their ruler, and he entered the Egyptian lands safe, supported, victorious, triumphant, honored, and happy. He sent al-Nāṣir Dāwud twenty thousand dinars, but the latter returned them and would not accept them. Thus his kingship in Egypt was firmly established.

As for King al-Jawād, he governed Sinjār poorly (8): he confiscated people’s property and oppressed them, so they (9) wrote to Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ