Toward the end of Muḥarram Emir Badr al-Dīn Baylik al-Khazindar (1) married the daughter of Emir Luʾluʾ (2), lord of Mosul, and the sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir marked the occasion with lavish festivities.

Ibn Khallikān (3) relates: In this same year one of al-Ẓāhir’s emirs, near the borders of Ḥamāh (4), captured a wild onager. They cooked it, yet—despite piling on firewood—the meat would not soften. When they examined the hide they found, engraved on its ear, the words “Bahram Gūr” (5). He says: They brought the hide to me and I read the inscription exactly so. This implies that the animal was almost eight hundred years old, for Bahram Gūr lived a long time before the Prophet’s mission, and wild asses are known to live for ages.

I say: It is possible that what was meant is Bahram Shāh al-Malik al-Amjad, for it is unlikely that such a beast could survive uncaught for so many centuries. The scribe may have intended to write “Bahram Shāh” (6) but instead wrote “Bahram Gūr,” and thus the confusion arose (7). Allah knows best.

Mention of the bayʿah of the ʿAbbāsid al-Ḥākim bi-Amrillāh

On the twenty-seventh of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir the caliph Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥākim bi-Amrillāh Aḥmad, son of the emir Abū ʿAlī al-Qubbī, son of the emir ʿAlī, son of the emir Abū Bakr, son of Imām al-Mustaʾrshid Billāh, son of al-Mustazhir Billāh Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, arrived from the eastern lands, accompanied by a group of leading figures from those regions. He had taken part in the battle alongside al-Mustanṣir, but fled the field with a number of men and so escaped. On the day of his entry the sultan al-Ẓāhir went out to receive him, displaying great joy and honoring him (8). He lodged him in the Great Tower of the Citadel of the Mountain and allotted him generous stipends and benefactions (9).

Still in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir al-Malik al-Ẓāhir dismissed Emir Jamāl al-Dīn Āqūsh al-Najībī (10) from his office of istidāriyya (chief steward) (11).