Yusuf ibn Ayyub was deputy to King al-Nasir (1) ibn al-ʿAziz ibn al-Ẓahir ibn al-Nasir, the ruler of Damascus, over Aleppo—until he eventually took Damascus itself. He reinforced Aleppo against the Mongols for a full month, then, after a hard siege, handed it over on terms. He died this very year and was buried in the vestibule of his house.

In the same year the following was killed:
Al-Malik al-Saʿid (2) Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAziz ʿUthman ibn al-Malik al-ʿAdil (3) Abū Bakr ibn Ayyub. He had held al-Subayba and Baniyas after his father, but they were taken from him and he was confined in the citadel of al-Birah (4). When the Mongols arrived he joined them, and they restored his lands to him. After the Battle of ʿAyn Jalut he was brought captive (5) before King al-Muẓaffar Quṭuz, who struck off his head because he had donned the Mongol sarāqūj (6) (their distinctive cap) and aided them against the Muslims.

ʿAbd al-Raḥman (7) ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman ibn Ṭahir ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAli Abū Ṭalib (8), Sharaf al-Din Ibn al-ʿAjami, an Aleppine Shafiʿi, came from a household renowned in Aleppo for learning and leadership. He taught in the al-Ẓahiriyya school, endowed a madrasa there, and was buried within its precincts. He died (9) when the Mongols entered Aleppo in the month of Ṣafar: they tortured him, pouring cold water over him in mid-winter until his body convulsed and he died—may Allah have mercy on him.

Al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Quṭuz (10) ibn ʿAbd Allah Sayf al-Din al-Turki was the most favored of the mamluks of al-Muʿizz ʿIzz al-Din Aybak the Turkmen, himself one of the mamluks of al-Ṣaliḥ (11) Ayyub ibn al-Kamil. When his master al-Muʿizz was killed, he assumed responsibility for installing the latter’s son Nūr al-Din.