Hama; the city’s deputy rode out, his power now greatly diminished—he and all (1) who were with him, worn down by the long forced marches and by the enemy’s attacks from every side. He surrendered; his own sword and the swords of his men were seized, they were placed under arrest in Hama, and the swords were sent on to Egypt.
News of this reached Damascus on the morning of Wednesday the fourteenth of the month. The drums of glad tidings were beaten, as usual, at the Citadel and at Bab al-Maydān. The troops ringed Hama on every side, awaiting the Sultan’s decision about him. Iyas marched with the Damascene army toward Homs, and the army of Tripoli did likewise. The forces then returned to Damascus on Thursday the twenty-ninth of the month.
Yalbugha arrived in fetters, mounted on a pack-mule, he and his father, surrounded by the emirs detailed to guard him together with the soldiers who were with them. They brought him into the city after the final night prayer, passed through Fum al-Sab‘a once the markets had been closed, the lamps extinguished, and the windows shuttered. From there they went by the shrine of Shaykh Raslan, through Bab al-Sharqi to Bab al-Saghir, then past the Mosque of al-Dhibbān to the Musallā, and continued on toward Egypt. Couriers kept coming from the Sultan with instructions concerning him and the companions who had fled with him, ordering the sequestration of their storehouses, wealth, properties, and the like.
A courier from Egypt arrived on Wednesday, the third of Jumada II, reporting that Yalbugha had been killed between Qaqūn (2) and Gaza (3) and that his head (4) had been taken to the Sultan. In Gaza, moreover, the three emirs who had left Egypt were also executed—namely Najm al-Din (5) the wazir ibn Sharwin (6) al-Baghdadi, the dawadar Tughaytumur, and Baydamur al-Badri (7), one of the commanders. The Sultan, angered at their collusion with Yalbugha, had expelled them from Egypt stripped of all their possessions and sent them to Syria; when they reached Gaza, the courier overtook them and killed them where he found them. He had likewise been ordered to kill Yalbugha wherever he might meet him. After leaving Gaza he encountered Yalbugha on the road to Wadi Fahmah, strangled him, severed his head, and carried it off to the Sultan.
Two emirs then arrived from Egypt to place Yalbugha’s holdings under sequestration, accompanied by a eunuch from the royal household. They took possession of gold ornaments and jewels of great value, and an order was issued to sell his properties, including the endowment he had made to the mosque whose construction he had begun in the Horse Market. It was widely known that he had endowed to it the caravanserai he had built outside Bab al-Faraj, the two adjoining bathhouses outside Bab al-Jabiya west of the Old Sultan’s Khan, and shares (8) in other villages—he had previously testified to this, but Allah knows best.
Then he demanded