and the Franks wrote to the Tatars, warning them; so the Tatars hastily withdrew, and a faction of Aleppo’s own townspeople took charge of the city, levying fines, plundering, and achieving their purposes. The Zahirid army then arrived, swept all of that away, and imposed upon its inhabitants (1) a levy of one million six hundred thousand. After this, Emir Shams al-Din Aqush al-Barli (2) came on al-Zahir’s behalf, assumed command of the city, punished and rewarded, governed, and dealt justly (3).

On Tuesday, the tenth of Jumada I, the office of chief judge in Egypt (4) was assumed by Taj al-Din ʿAbd al-Wahhab (5) son of the judge al-Aʿazz Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn [the judge] Rashid al-Din ibn Abi al-Thanaʾ Mahmud ibn Badr al-ʿAlai. This took place only after he had set down rigorous conditions for al-Zahir; the sultan accepted them. Badr al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf ibn ʿAli al-Sinjari (6) was deposed from the judiciary, kept under guard for several days, and then released.

Account of the pledge of allegiance [to the caliph al-Mustansir bi-Allah, Abu al-Qasim Ahmad, son of the Commander of the Faithful al-Zahir] (7), by command of Allah (8) Abu Nasr Muhammad, son of the Commander of the Faithful al-Nasir li-Din Allah Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-ʿAbbasi. He was the uncle of al-Mustaʿsim; he had been imprisoned in Baghdad and was set free. Living among a group of Bedouin in Iraq, he set out for al-Zahir when news of the sultan’s rule reached him, arriving in Egypt with ten (9) Bedouin emirs, among them Emir Nasir al-Din Mahanna. [His entry into Cairo] was on 8 Rajab. The sultan, together with the vizier, [Chief Judge Taj al-Din], the witnesses, and the believers, went out to meet him—it was a memorable day. The Jews came forth with their Torahs, the Christians with their Gospel, and he entered through Bab al-Nasr in magnificent pomp. Then, on Monday, 13 Rajab (10), the sultan and the caliph sat together in the great iwan (11) of the Citadel of the Mountain, with the vizier, the judge, and the emirs arranged according to their ranks, and the caliph’s lineage was formally authenticated before Chief Judge Taj al-Din ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn al-Aʿazz.