On Monday, the 13th of Ṣafar, the deputy-governor of Tripoli, Emir Sayf al-Din [son of] ʿAbd al-Ghani (1), arrived and was taken into the Citadel. Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Din ibn Abī Bakr then escorted him to Egypt, keeping him under strict guard throughout the journey.

News also reached Damascus that Manjak had left Ṣafad by the barīd (courier post) after being summoned to the Sultan. When he was only one postal stage from Gaza, he and his attendants turned aside into the Wilderness (at-Tīh), fleeing from the Sultan. As soon as the report reached the deputy of Gaza, he strove to apprehend him, but Manjak eluded capture and the matter slipped from his hands (2). And Allah knows best.

The arrest of Emir ʿAlī al-Mārdānī, deputy of Syria (3):

The affair began on Wednesday morning, 22 Rajab, when the army mustered in full armor beneath the Citadel. Victory drums and trumpets were sounded inside the fortress, in the ṭārima quarter, while the emirs brought their tablkhānāt (military bands) from every direction. The operation was overseen by Emir Sayf al-Din Baydamur, the chief chamberlain, while the deputy of the sultanate remained inside the Dār al-Saʿādah. Couriers shuttled between him and the troops until he finally emerged. He was then mounted on a few ordinary saddles and, under heavy guard, sent off toward Egypt. At Bāb al-Naṣr he felt estranged from the people of Syria, and the populace wept for him out of pity and grief, remembering his piety, the slightness of any harm he caused to the common folk, and his generosity to scholars, the poor, and the judges.

On Thursday morning, the 23rd of the same month, three more emirs were placed under close surveillance: Emir Sayf al-Din Ṭaybughā Ḥājī, one of the commanders of a thousand; Emir Sayf al-Din Quṭlīṭ (4), the dawādār and likewise a commander; and Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Din Aydughmush al-Mārdānī, one of the tablkhānā emirs (5). These men had been constant companions of the arrested deputy—his nightly associates—and through their mediation the stipends for the troops, the military bands, and the gratuities had been distributed. They were taken up to the Fortress of al-Manṣūrah and imprisoned there with the other detained emirs.

Soon afterward news arrived that Emir ʿAlī had been turned back on the road after passing Gaza and that a diploma appointing him as governor of the fortified city of Ṣafad had been sent to him. Matters thus settled down, and his followers and friends rejoiced.

The new fiscal administrator of Damascus, upon whom the governorship had been conferred in Egypt, arrived on Thursday, 16 Rajab. Although he had begged repeatedly to be excused and had kissed the ground many times, the Sultan refused to release him from the appointment. He was Emir Sayf al-Din Asandamur (6), brother of