—all of them—until they overtook Qarasunqur, who was staying with Muhanna. They wrote to the sultan, then headed toward the Tatars (1); in truth, they were like a man who flees the scorching heat only to plunge into the fire.
In Safar (2) an express courier arrived with orders to place all the estates and revenues of al-Afram, Qarasunqur, Zardakash, and everything connected with them under precautionary seizure. Muhanna was removed from office, and his brother Fadl (3) was appointed in his place. The armies returned from the northern lands in the company of Arghun, while the people were weighed down with worry, grief, and sorrow on account of Qarasunqur and his followers.
Sudi came from Egypt to assume the deputy governorship of Aleppo. Passing through Damascus, [the people and the army went out to welcome him] (4). He attended the ceremonial banquet, and the sultan’s decree (5) summoning Jamal al-Din, the deputy governor of Damascus, to Egypt was read aloud. Jamal al-Din at once mounted the postal courier for Egypt and pleaded to retain his office in view of Qaralajin’s absence (6).
That same day Qutb al-Din Musa, son of Shaykh al-Salamiyya and Supervisor of the Army, was summoned to Egypt. He departed at day’s end and there assumed control of the army in place of Fakhr al-Din al-Katib, the secretary of the mamluks, who had been dismissed, fined, and had his considerable wealth confiscated on the tenth of Rabiʿ al-Awwal.
On the eleventh of that month the Hanbali judiciary in Egypt was taken up by the judge Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn al-ʿIzz (7) ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAwadh al-Maqdisi, a grandson—through his mother—of Shaykh Shams al-Din ibn al-ʿImad (8), the first Hanbali judge.
The amir Sayf al-Din Timur (9) arrived to assume the deputy governorship of Tripoli in place of al-Afram, who had fled to the Tatars.
In Rabiʿ al-Akhir Baybars al-ʿAlāʾī, the deputy of Homs, Baybars al-Majnūn, Tuqan, and several other amirs—six men in all—were arrested in a single day (10) and sent to al-Karak to be imprisoned there.
During that same month the deputy governor of Egypt, the amir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Dawādār al-Mansūrī (11), was also arrested, and Arghun al-Dawādār was appointed in his stead.