Zayn al-Dīn, the brother of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah; the three judges—the Mālikī, the Ḥanafī, and the Ḥanbalī—also came forward, for they had executed the sentence in council, and they attended the killing of the accused, while I personally supervised the whole affair from start to finish (1).
On Friday, the twenty-eighth of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, the two emirs imprisoned in the Citadel—Ṭaybughā Ḥājī and Aljībughā (2)—were released, as were the treasurers of Tankiz who had likewise been held there. The people were delighted by this.
Account of the death of al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad (3) ibn Qalāwūn: On the morning of Wednesday, the twenty-seventh (4) of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, Emir Sayf al-Dīn Qaṭlūbughā al-Fakhrī arrived in Damascus. The viceroy and the assembled emirs went out to greet him; he had come on post horses and announced the death of Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir, whose passing had occurred late on that same Wednesday. He added that the funeral prayer had been performed for him on Thursday night after the ʿishāʾ prayer, and that he had been buried beside his father al-Malik al-Manṣūr, above the grave of his son Ānūk. Before his death he had secured the oath of allegiance for his son Sayf al-Dīn Abū Bakr, conferring upon him the title al-Malik al-Manṣūr.
When the Sultan was interred on Thursday night only a few emirs were present. The rites were overseen by Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Jawlī (5), a man reputed for piety named Shaykh ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jaʿbarī, and another person from the jabābiriyyah, and he was buried as we have described. His son, the heir apparent, did not attend the burial and did not leave the Citadel that night, acting on the counsel of the emirs so that the people would not be thrown into confusion. The funeral prayer was led by Qadi ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah; present were al-Jawlī, Aydughmush, the Amir Ākhūr (6), and Qadi Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn Ḥāmid, son of the Damascus qadi al-Subkī.
Al-Malik al-Manṣūr Sayf al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn Abū al-Maʿālī Abū Bakr then ascended the throne.
On the morning of Thursday, the twenty-first of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in the year 741 AH, the Egyptian army (7) pledged allegiance to him. Al-Fakhr (8) arrived to take the oath from the Syrians, lodged in the Qasr al-Ablaq, and the people swore fealty to al-Malik al-Manṣūr, son of al-Nāṣir, son of al-Manṣūr. The drums of glad tidings were beaten in the victorious Citadel of Damascus on the morning of Thursday, the twenty-eighth of that month. The people rejoiced at the new king, invoked mercy for the late king, prayed for him, and mourned his loss (may Allah have mercy on him).