The fifth of the eleven niyābas of the mamlaka of Aleppo, which are inside the Syrian borders, belonging to the military wālīs al-ʾumūr. (tathqīf) it is treated in the group of amirs of ten, and he reported that he had seen in an autograph of Ibn an-Nashāʾī what was prescribed, i.e. that it was for an amir of forty. One of the kātibs as-sirr of Aleppo informed me that in the end of the reign of al-Ẓāhir Barq¨q, it was fixed for a muqaddam ʾalf, and its appointment was fixed from the sultanic gate.