He thereupon summoned Ibn Jamāʿah and Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī, and they renewed the oath of allegiance for the emirs a second time, so the emirs swore it (1). Robes of honor were bestowed upon them, and he ordered that the deputies of Emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājīn and his stores of wealth be placed under close guard. Al-ʿĀdil stayed in the Citadel during those days, and the breach that had occurred between them had taken place at Wādī Faḥmah on Monday, the eighth (2) of Muḥarram.

The background is this: Emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājīn had secretly conspired with a group of emirs against al-ʿĀdil, binding them to him. When they left Damascus he advised al-ʿĀdil to bring the treasury along, so that no money would remain in Damascus on which al-ʿĀdil might rely should he escape them and return to the city (3), while the treasure would, at the same time, give Lājīn power along the road for the act of treachery (4) he had resolved upon. When they reached the aforementioned place, Lājīn killed Emir Sayf al-Dīn Batukhas (5) and Baktut the Blue—both supporters of al-ʿĀdil—seized the treasury from before him and the army, and headed for the Egyptian lands.

When al-ʿĀdil heard of this, he slipped out through the private passage, rode off with a flying column (6), and entered the Citadel, as we have related. Some of his mamluks—such as Zayn al-Dīn Ghulbuk and others—returned to him, and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī remained in the Citadel to administer the realm.

Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn (7) ibn al-Sharīshī lectured in the Shāmiyyah Barrāniyyah on the morning of Thursday, the first of Ṣafar. Many affairs were overturned during these days: the sultan kept to the Citadel and did not leave (8) it; he abolished many customs duties, issuing decrees to that effect that were read aloud to the populace. Even so, prices soared: a single sack (gharārah) reached (9) two hundred. Matters grew dire and the crisis deepened—indeed, we belong to Allah, and to Him we return.

Account (10) of the accession of al-Malik al-Manṣūr Lājīn the Armiger (11)

After carrying off the treasury and marching with the troops to Egypt, he entered the country in magnificent pomp. The majority of the senior emirs sided with him, pledged allegiance to him, and installed him as ruler over them. He ascended the royal throne on Friday, the tenth of Ṣafar,