in the Ablak Palace, and he had resolved to proceed to the Aleppine lands in order to muster the armies against Baybugha and his confederates. Here the account ends; Allah, exalted be He, knows best.
[Then the year 754 AH began]
The year opened while the Sultan of Islam over Egypt, the Syrian provinces, the Aleppine realm and its dependencies, and the Two Noble Sanctuaries was al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn al-Ṣāliḥī.
His deputy in Egypt was Emir Sayf al-Dīn Qablay, and the emirs indicated as directing the affairs of the realm were Sayf al-Dīn Shaykhun, Sayf al-Dīn Ṭāz, and Sayf al-Dīn Ṣarghitmush al-Nāṣirī.
The chief judges and the secretary of state were the same as those mentioned in the previous year.
The vice-regent of Aleppo was Emir Sayf al-Dīn Arghūn al-Kāmilī, appointed to fight the three emirs—Baybugha, Amir Aḥmad, and Baklamish—who had done what we recorded in Rajab of the preceding year. They fled to the land of Albistan (1) under the protection of Dulgadir (2), the Turkmen. Fearing the ruler of Egypt, he betrayed them and delivered them into the hands of the aforesaid deputy of Aleppo. The Muslims rejoiced greatly at this—praise and gratitude belong to Allah. The vice-regent of Tripoli was Emir Sayf al-Dīn Aytamush, who, as we have said, had formerly been deputy of Damascus; the turns of fortune installed him over Tripoli when the Sultan was in Damascus, as noted above.
At the start of the year reliable reports confirmed that the three emirs—Baybugha, Baklamish, and Amir Aḥmad—had fallen into the custody of the Aleppine deputy, Emir Sayf al-Dīn Arghūn. They were being held in the citadel there, awaiting whatever decree would be passed concerning them, and the Muslims were overjoyed.
On Saturday, the seventeenth of Muḥarram, Emir ʿIzz al-Dīn Ṭuqṭāy (3), the dawādār, arrived in Damascus, returning from the Aleppine territories. With him he carried the severed head of the rebel Baybugha—whom Allah enabled us to subdue—after his two companions, Baklamish, formerly deputy of Tripoli, and Amir Aḥmad, deputy of Ḥamāh, had already been beheaded in Aleppo before its deputy, Sayf al-Dīn Arghūn al-Kāmilī; their heads were then dispatched to Egypt. When Baybugha arrived after them he was treated likewise, his execution being carried out publicly after the ʿAṣr prayer in the marketplace.