Muhammad (1) ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah had likewise been confined in the Citadel, a few days after the arrest of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn, from Shaʿbān of the year 726 AH until now. Word arrived that the sultan had released al-Jāwlī (2), the emir Faraj ibn Qarasunqur (3), and Lājīn al-Manṣūrī (4); they were summoned before him after the ʿĪd and were honored with robes of distinction.

During the same period news came of the death of the great emir Jūbān (5), deputy of Sultan Abū Saʿīd over those territories, as well as the death of Qarasunqur al-Manṣūrī (6); both passed away in Dhu al-Qaʿdah of this year.

This Jūbān was the one who directed the canal that carries water to the Sacred Mosque (7), [wa-qad ghrima ʿalayhā amwālan jazīlatan kathīrah (and he spent on it vast and numerous sums of money)] (8). He has a mausoleum in the Prophet’s City, a well-known madrasa, and other praiseworthy endowments. His Islam was sound and his aspirations lofty. He administered the realms in the days of Abū Saʿīd for a long time with rectitude, but when Abū Saʿīd sought to seize him he escaped, as noted earlier. Later Abū Saʿīd killed his son Khwāja Dimashq last year, whereupon Jūbān’s other son, Tamurtāsh, fled to the sultan of Egypt. The latter sheltered him for a month, after which messengers passed between the two rulers regarding his execution; consequently, it is said, Egypt’s ruler put him to death and sent his head to Abū Saʿīd. Shortly thereafter the father himself died, and Allah knows best the secrets of hearts (9).

As for Qarasunqur al-Manṣūrī, he was among the senior emirs of Egypt and Syria. He was one of those who [shāraka fī (took part in)] (10) the killing of al-Ashraf Khalīl ibn al-Manṣūr, as mentioned earlier. He subsequently held the deputyship of Egypt for a time, then that of Damascus, and later that of Aleppo. Eventually he fled to the Tatars together with al-Afram and al-Zardakāshī; the Tatar king Khurbandā received them, honored them, granted them many lands, and Qarasunqur married a daughter of Hulāgū. He died this year in Marāgha (11), the province he had governed, at roughly ninety years of age—Allah knows best.