Beginnings of year 823:
The year started and the caliph was al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh ʾAbu l-Fatḥ Dāwud b. al-Mutawakkil ʿAlā Allāh ʾAbī ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad. The sultan of the lands of Egypt, Syria, the Ḥijāz and the Bilād al-Rūm was sultan al-Malik al-Muʾayyad ʾAbu ʾl-Naṣr Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī al-Ẓāhirī. The ʾamīr kabīr ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī, the ʾatābak al-ʿasākir was al-maqām al-Ṣārimī ʾIbrāhīm b. al-Sulṭān, the ʾamīr ʾākhūr was amir Ṭūghān. The dawādār was amir Muqbil, from the amirs of 40, the ʾamīr silāḥ was amir Qujqār al-Qurdumī and the ʾamīr majlis was amir Ṭaṭar. The raʾs nawba was amir ʾAlṭunbughā min ʿAbd al-Wāhid, known as al-Ṣaghīr, the ḥājib al-hujjāb was amir ʾAlṭunbughā al-Marqabī and the nāʾib of Damascus was amir Jaqmaq. The nāʾib of Aleppo was amir Yashbak al-Yūsufī, the nāʾib of Hama was amir Shāhīn al-Zardkāsh and the nāʾib of Ṣafad was amir Quṭlubughā al-Tanamī. The nāʾib of Gaza was amir ʾĪnāl al-Sayfī Nawrūz and the nāʾib of Albistan, Qaysārīyat al-Rūm, Nikda, Lāranda and Luʾluʾa was amir ʿAlī Bāk b. Qaramān. The nāʾib of Sīs was Bardibak al-ʿAjamī , the nāʾib of Ṭarsūs was Baykī Bāk al-Turkumānī, the nāʾib of ʾAyās was amir Durmish and the nāʾib of Dawrakī was amir Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b.Shahrī. The nāʾib of Malaṭīya was amir Manklī Bughā al-ʾArghun Shāwī and the nāʾib of Kakhtā was amir Kizil Bughā. The nāʾib of Qalʿat al-Rūm was amir ʾAq Qujā and the nāʾib of al-Bīra was ʾAlṭunbughā al-Ṣūfī. The nāʾib of al-Ruhā was amir Ṭūr ʿAlī b. al-ʾamīr ʿUthmān b. Ṭūr ʿAlī, known as Qarā Yuluk and the nāʾib of Jaʿbar was amir ʿUmar al-Jaʿbarī. The nāʾib of al-Raḥba was amir ʾArghūn Shāh al-Sharafī, the amir of Mekka was al-sharīf Ḥasan b. ʿAjlān and the amir of Medina was al-Sharīf ʿAzīz b. Hiyāziʿ. The amir Yanbuʿ was amir Muqbil b. Nukhbār al-Ḥasanī and the nāʾib of Alexandria was amir Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-ʿAṭṭār.