and victory salutes were sounded in Egypt; the city was festooned, and the Friday sermons were delivered in his name there as well as in Jerusalem and Hebron. He was granted the honorific title al-Malik al-Manṣūr. The same salutes were also beaten for him in al-Karak (1), Nablus, and Ṣafad. A group of the Damascene emirs went over to him, and the expeditionary force that had set out from the direction of al-Raḥbah arrived with Emir Sayf al-Dīn Kajkin (2). They did not enter the city but encamped on the Gravel Parade Ground (3), openly (4) renouncing al-ʿĀdil and pledging obedience to al-Manṣūr [Lājīn, lord of Egypt; the emirs continued to ride out to him group after group, cohort after cohort] (5). Thus the cause of al-Manṣūr grew strong, while that of al-ʿĀdil weakened (6) greatly.
When al-ʿĀdil saw his position crumbling, he said to the emirs, “He is my khushdāshī (7)—he and I are as one. I hear and obey him, and I will sit wherever in the Citadel (8) he wishes, until you write to him and see what he says.” Couriers soon arrived bearing letters ordering strict watch (9) over the Citadel and over al-ʿĀdil himself. The people were thrown into tumult, and rumors (10) of every hue spread. The Citadel gates were shut, and all the city gates—save for Bāb al-Naṣr, and even there only the wicket—were closed. The common folk thronged around the Citadel until some of them tumbled into the moat (11) and a number died.
On the evening of Saturday a proclamation was made in the name of al-Malik al-Manṣūr Lājīn; victory salutes were sounded after the ʿAṣr prayer, and in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday the mu’adhhins in the Great Mosque of Damascus invoked blessings for him, reciting:
“Say, O Allah, Lord of dominion, You give dominion to whom You will, and You remove dominion from whom You will; You honor whom You will, and You abase whom You will. In Your hand is all good; truly, You have power over all things.” (Āl ʿImrān 3:26)
At daybreak on Sunday the judges and emirs—including Gurlu al-ʿĀdilī—assembled in the Dār al-Saʿādah and swore allegiance to al-Manṣūr Lājīn. A proclamation was issued in the city ordering the people to open their shops. The vizier Shihāb al-Dīn and his brother Zayn al-Dīn, the muḥtasib, went into hiding, so the governor Ibn al-Nashābī assumed responsibility for the city’s ḥisbah. Zayn al-Dīn later reappeared and resumed his duties, and likewise his brother Shihāb al-Dīn showed himself again. The city’s deputy, Gurlu, and Emir Jāghān (12) then departed for Egypt to inform the sultan.