Al-Sibt said this. (1)
He had already proclaimed in Damascus: “Whoever has any claim upon us, let him come forward.” A great multitude assembled at the Citadel, and their belongings were restored to them.
On the tenth of Ṣafar, the city’s deputy, the amir Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Yaghmūr—acting for al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb—entered Damascus and took up quarters in Darb al-Shiʿārīn inside Bab al-Jābiyah.
In Jumādā al-Ākhirah the deputy ordered that the newly built stalls in the middle of Bab al-Barīd be demolished, decreeing that no shop remain there except those on the two sides, adjacent respectively to the southern and northern tailors’ rows, (2) while everything in the center was to be torn down. (3) Abū Shāmah (4) remarks: al-ʿĀdil had demolished that area before; it was rebuilt, and now Ibn Yaghmūr has razed it again—may it remain so hereafter.
In the same year:
Al-Nāṣir Dāwūd set out from al-Karak toward Aleppo, whereupon al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb wrote to his deputy in Damascus, Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Yaghmūr, commanding the destruction of the house of Usāmah—attributed to al-Nāṣir in Damascus—as well as his orchard at al-Qābūn, known as the Palace Garden: its trees were to be uprooted and the pavilion dismantled. Al-Ṣāliḥ (5) Ayyūb then took possession of al-Karak from al-Amjad Ḥasan ibn al-Nāṣir, expelled the members of the al-Muʿaẓẓam household who were there, and seized its stores and wealth, which contained one million dinars in gold. Al-Ṣāliḥ granted al-Amjad an excellent fief in compensation.
Also in that year:
Floodwaters surged through Baghdad, destroying many districts and famous residences. Friday congregational prayers became impossible in most mosques—only three (6) remained open. The coffins of several caliphs were transferred to the cemeteries of al-Ruṣāfah lest their resting-places be submerged; among them was al-Muʿtaḍid (7) ibn al-Amīr Abū Aḥmad [ibn] al-Mutawakkil, moved some three hundred and fifty-odd years after his burial. Likewise relocated were his son al-Muktafī (8) and al-Muttaqī (9) ibn al-Muqtadir—may Allah have mercy upon them all.
That same year:
The Franks stormed Damietta; the soldiers and townsfolk who were there fled, and the Franks seized the port, killing great numbers of Muslims. This occurred in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of that year, and the Sultan pitched his camp opposite the enemy with all