—and of the troops—to the emir Badr al-Dīn Baylik (1) al-Khazindar. They then marched and entered Damascus (2) on Monday, the seventh of Dhu al-Qaʿdah; it was a day long remembered. The caliph and the sultan performed the Friday prayer in the Great Mosque of Damascus. The caliph entered through the Barīd Gate (3), while the sultan came in by the Ziyādah Gate (4); that, too, was a memorable day.
Afterward, the sultan equipped the caliph for his journey to Baghdad, sending with him the sons of the ruler of Mosul (5). He lavished expenditure upon the caliph, upon them, and upon the contingent of troops who accompanied him for protection, handing over—by Allah’s decree—in ready cash the sum of one million dinars (6), granting it outright and even adding to it. May Allah reward him with goodness.
The lord of Homs, al-Malik al-Ashraf, then arrived; the sultan robed him in honor, granted him a stipend, and added Tall Bashir to his domains. The lord of Hama, al-Mansur, likewise presented himself; the sultan robed him in honor, granted him a stipend, and issued him an investiture diploma (7) for his lands. He next dispatched an army under the emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Bunduqdārī (8) to Aleppo to fight al-Barlī (9), who had usurped the city and sown corruption there (10).
Such is all that has reached us of the events of this year, in summary.
[Then came the year 660 AH]
At the very beginning of this year, on the third of Muḥarram, the caliph al-Mustanṣir Billāh—who had received the oath of allegiance in Rajab of the previous year in Egypt—was killed in the land of Iraq, as we have noted, after the troops with him had been routed. Surely we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.
Al-Malik al-Ẓāhir thus became the sole ruler of all Syria and Egypt; affairs were settled in his favor, and none opposed him save al-Barlī, who had seized al-Bīrah and rebelled there.
On the third of Muḥarram of this same year the sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir in Egypt bestowed robes of honor upon all the emirs, the courtiers, the vizier, and the judge Tāj al-Dīn (11), the grandson of al-Aʿazz, while dismissing Burhān al-Dīn al-Sinjārī (12) from that position.