A dispatch soon arrived confirming that the prescribed oaths had in fact been administered, and a letter from the sultan reported that he had mounted the throne on Friday, the 10th of Ṣafar (1); that on the sixteenth he had paraded through Cairo in the full pomp of kingship, clad in the caliphal robe of honor while the emirs walked before him on foot; and that he had appointed (2) in Egypt Emir Shams al-Dīn Sunqur al-Manṣūrī (3) as his deputy.

The khuṭbah for al-Manṣūr Lājīn was pronounced in Damascus on the first day of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, the judges being present in the royal gallery together with Shams al-Dīn al-Aʿsar, Kajkin, Asandamur, and a number of the Damascene emirs. Qadi Imām al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī, Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī, and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mālikī were summoned to Egypt and accordingly set out for the Nile lands. Emir Ḥusām al-Dīn, the sultan’s ustādh al-dār (4), and Sayf al-Dīn Jāghān (5) then arrived on the sultan’s behalf, whereupon the emirs renewed (6) their oaths. They entered the Citadel (7) to meet al-ʿĀdil, accompanied by Qadi Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamaʿah and Kajkin, and—after a lengthy exchange in Turkish—compelled him to swear binding oaths. In Turkish (8) they told him, as he pledged allegiance, that he must be content with whatever province might be allotted to him; after the oath it was decided that he should reside in the fortress of Ṣarkhad.

Royal decrees next appointed Taqī al-Dīn Tawbah to the vizierate and dismissed Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī. The office of ḥisbah was granted to Amīn al-Dīn Yūsuf al-Armanī al-Rūmī, associate of Shams al-Dīn al-Ayki, in place of Zayn al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī (9).

Emir Sayf al-Dīn Qubjaq al-Manṣūrī assumed the deputyship of Syria, entering Damascus at dawn on Saturday, the sixteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, and taking up residence in the Dār al-Saʿādah (10) in succession to Sayf al-Dīn Gurlu al-ʿĀdilī (11); the entire army rode out to greet him.

On Friday he attended the royal gallery, performed the congregational prayer there, and, once the prayer was over, a Ḥusāmī sultanic decree (12) was read out, annulling all guarantees imposed upon waqf endowments and private properties without the owners’ consent (13). The document was recited by Qadi Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn Faḍl Allah, head of the Chancery. A proclamation followed throughout the city: whoever had a grievance should present himself at the Dār al-ʿAdl on Tuesday. Robes of honor were bestowed upon the emirs, the field commanders, and the various dignitaries.