Detachments of the army were then dispatched into Damascus in splendid array. Along the banks of Nahr al-Nasr they donned their battle gear; war-horses, arms, and lances filled the scene. After all of them had entered, the sultan himself rode in some time after the late–ʿAṣr prayer. He wore a Bukhārī qunbāz (1). The ceremonial canopy (qubba) and the royal parasol (ṭayr) were borne above his head by Emir Sayf al-Din Tuman Tamur, the former deputy of Tripoli. The emirs went on foot before him; carpets were spread beneath his horse’s hooves, and the drums of glad tidings sounded behind him. He entered the victorious Manṣūrī Citadel, not the Badriyya. When he saw the mangonels and weapons that had been stockpiled there, his anger against Baydamur and his followers grew all the more. He descended to the ṭārima, seated himself on the throne of sovereignty, and the emirs and deputies stood before him—right had returned to its proper place. Between his entry and that of his uncle al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣāliḥ, which had taken place on the first of Ramadan, lay twenty-eight days; some said twenty-nine—Allah knows best. The populace at once began to decorate the city.

On the morning of Tuesday, the last day of the month, the emirs who had incurred the sultan’s wrath—whose efforts, born of ill-will toward the Muslims, had come to nothing—were transferred to the Citadel and confined, humiliated, in separate towers. Once secure rulers there, they awoke prisoners, degraded and fearful: yesterday they were leaders, today they were outcasts. Their accomplices were hunted down; proclamations were made throughout the city promising a large reward—and an emirate commensurate with the service—to anyone who informed on them. On that same day an order was issued concerning the chief Amīn al-Dīn ibn al-Qalānisi, the kātib al-sirr (2): he was assessed one million dirhams and handed over to Emir Zayn al-Din Zubāla, the Citadel’s deputy—recently reinstated with the precedence once held by Ibn Qarāsunqur—with instructions to punish him until he produced the sum.

The sultan and his emirs performed the ʿĪd prayer in the Green Maydān beneath a vast pavilion; the sermon was delivered by Qadi Tāj al-Din al-Munāwī (3), the Shāfiʿī judge of the Manṣūrī army. The emirs then accompanied the sultan into the Citadel through the Madrasa Gate, where an immense banquet was spread; after they had eaten, each returned to his residence and palace. On that day the royal parasol was carried above the sultan’s head by Emir ʿAlī, deputy of Damascus, upon whom a magnificent robe of honour was bestowed.

That same day Emir Tuman Tamur, the former deputy of Tripoli, was arrested. He had at first joined Baydamur, then defected back to the Egyptians and offered excuses, which they outwardly accepted. He had entered Damascus bearing the canopy over the sultan’s head on the day of the entry, after which they appointed him governor of Ḥoms, thus diminishing and belittling him. Yet while he was on his way to assume that post and had reached al-Qābūn, they sent for him, seized him, and brought him back, demanding the hundred thousand dirhams he had received from Baydamur; thereafter they returned him to the governorship of Ḥoms.