He remained in prison, as though he himself had been the one holding the ropes while they climbed down on them. The viceroy’s anger against the Citadel deputy flared: he beat the deputy’s two sons—the naqib and his brother—imprisoned them, and wrote to the Sultan about the affair. A decree soon arrived dismissing the Citadel deputy, expelling him from the fortress, and ordering him to account for the royal monies he had taken during the six years of his tenure. One son was removed from the naqaba (headship of the Prophet’s descendants) and the other from the Sultan’s istidariyya (majordomo’s office); thus they fell from the heights of honor to the depths of dismissal.
On Monday the seventeenth, Emir Taj al-Din Jibril came from Emir Sayf al-Din Baydamur, the deputy of Aleppo, bringing news that two towns in the land of Sis—Tarsus and Adana—had been conquered. He delivered their keys to the Sultan, may Allah support him. Baydamur then seized many other fortresses in the shortest time and with the least expense. Qadi Nasir al-Din, the keeper of the royal chancery, delivered an eloquent and moving sermon, and I learned by letter that the doors of the church of Adana were shipped to Egypt by boat (1).
I said: These are the doors of the Nasiriyya that stand at the foot [of the Citadel]; Sis had carried them off in the year of Ghazan, 699 AH, and—praise be to Allah—they have been recovered this year.
Toward the end of the month we heard that Shaykh Qutb al-Din Hirmas, formerly the Sultan’s spiritual guide, had been expelled from his master’s presence, beaten, fined, and his house razed to its foundations. He was banished to Masyaf; passing through Damascus he lodged at the Jalaliyyah Madrasa (2) outside Bab al-Faraj. I was among those who visited him; he was dignified and comely, fluent and precise in speech, endowed with learning, humility, and Sufi devotion—may Allah grant him a good end. He then moved on to the Adrawiyya.
On the morning of Saturday, the seventh of Rajab, Shaykh Sharaf al-Din Ahmad (3) ibn al-Hasan ibn Qadi al-Jabal, the Hanbali, set out for Egypt, summoned by express courier to the Sultan to teach the Hanbali school at the madrasa the Sultan had founded in Cairo, the Muizziyya. The judges and notables accompanied him partway to bid him farewell—may Allah grant him safety. This concludes the matter; Allah Most High knows best.
The arrest of the viceroy Asandamur al-Yahyawi (4)
On the morning of Wednesday, the twenty-fifth of Rajab, the viceroy, Emir Sayf al-Din Asandamur, brother of Yalbugha al-Yahyawi, was arrested pursuant to a letter that had arrived from the Sultan with the junior dawadar, while he was riding.