and surrounded it with numerous forces; Saladin (1) came to repel them (2) and held them at bay for thirty-seven months. In the end they overran the city and slew the Muslims inside, as has already been recounted (3).

Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil ibn al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn then marched from Acre toward Damascus in full royal splendor and with abundant honor, accompanied by his vizier Ibn al-Salʿūs (4) and the victorious armies. On that very day he appointed Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Shujāʿī as his deputy over Syria; he took up residence in Dār al-Saʿāda, and his iqṭāʿ (fief) was augmented by the district of Ḥarastā, which had previously been reserved for the citadel’s stores. He was granted a daily allowance of three hundred from the Dār al-ṭaʿām (royal kitchen) (5) and was authorized to draw from the treasury whatever he wished without consultation or review.

The sultan then sent him to Sidon, for a stubborn tower still remained there (6); he captured it, and the drums of glad tidings were beaten. He quickly returned to the sultan, bade him farewell, and the sultan set out for Egypt toward the end of Rajab (7). He dispatched him again, this time to Beirut; he proceeded there and seized it in the shortest span (8)—within three days—and the victory drums sounded once more. ʿAthlīth (9), Antartus (Tortosa), and Jubayl (Byblos) likewise surrendered. Thus, by Allah’s grace, no Frankish stronghold remained on the coast except in Muslim hands, and Allah relieved the land and its people of them.

The sultan entered Cairo (10) on the ninth of Shaʿbān in magnificent pomp; it was a memorable day. He released Badr al-Dīn Baysarī after seven years in prison and restored his fief to him. Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Shujāʿī, the viceroy of Damascus, returned to Damascus on the twenty-seventh of the aforementioned month (11), having completely cleansed the coasts of the Franks so that not a single stone of theirs remained. On the fourth of Ramaḍān Husām al-Dīn was set free.