On Thursday word spread that a faction of the army in Egypt—made up of ṭawāshiyya (palace eunuchs) and khāṣakiyya (personal guards)—had proclaimed Ḥusayn al-Nāṣir their ruler, after which they fell into dispute among themselves and fought one another (1). The affair was soon settled: Ḥusayn was returned to the place where he had been imprisoned (2), and Allah extinguished the evil of this faction—praise be to Him.

Later that same day Qadi Nāṣir al-Din ibn Yaʿqūb (3) donned the robe of investiture for the kitābat al-sirr (Supreme Chancery), the two madrasas, and the office of shaykh al-shuyūkh (chief of the shaykhs), in place of Raʾis ʿAlāʾ al-Din ibn al-Qalānisi, who was dismissed and had his property confiscated. People flocked to congratulate him on regaining the post he had formerly held (4).

On the morning of Friday, the third of Shawwāl, a number of Syrian emirs were arrested: the two chamberlains Ṣalāḥ al-Din and Ḥusām al-Din; the muhimmandār Tamur, nephew of the grand chamberlain; Nāṣir al-Din, son of al-Malik Ṣalāḥ al-Din ibn al-Kāmil; Ibn Ḥamza; al-Ṭarkhānī; and two brothers, Ṭaybugha Zafar and Baljak (5). All of them were tablakhāna emirs entitled to maintain their own military bands. Khayr Tamur, the chief chamberlain, was likewise removed, and the chamberlainship was conferred upon Qarabī, one of the Egyptian emirs.

On Tuesday, the seventh of Shawwāl, sixteen Arab emirs were seized in the Manṣūrī Citadel, among them ʿUmar ibn Mūsā ibn Muhannā—nicknamed al-Miṣmaʿ—who had once been commander of the Bedouin, and Muʿayqil ibn Faḍl ibn Muhannā, together with others. It was reported that the reason was that a group from the house of Faḍl had waylaid Emir Sayf al-Din al-Aḥmadī while he was being escorted toward Aleppo, took some of his belongings, and war nearly broke out between them.

On Thursday night after the maghrib prayer, nineteen Turkish and Arab emirs—including Baydamur, Manjak, Asandamur, Jibrīl, Ṣalāḥ al-Din the chamberlain, Ḥusām al-Din as well, Baljak, and others—were sent off by express post, shackled in irons, to Egypt. About two hundred cavalry in full armor were assigned to guard them. They set out for the Egyptian lands, and a band of ruffians, among them the sons of Lāqūsh, was placed under command to accompany them. Raʾis Amīn al-Din ibn al-Qalānisi was released from sequestration and the levies imposed in the Citadel after he had paid part of what was demanded; he returned to his home, and the people congratulated him.

The Sultan’s departure from Damascus bound for Egypt (6)

When Friday, the tenth of Shawwāl, arrived, Ṭalab Yalbugha al-Khāṣakī set out that morning in such magnificent array as had never been seen.