The following morning, Saturday that is, they split, (each going) to the ʾakābir al-dawla and the amirs, in order to prevent them from ascending to the Qalʿa and to assemble them in the house of ʾatābak Khushqadam, in order to do what was to be done. They went to the amirs and seized a large number of them, and brought them to the house of ʾatābak Khushqadam, against Khushqadam’s will. In the early morning, a(nother) group) went to the house of the amir Bardbak al-ʾAshrafī, the dawādār thānī, which adjoined the Sulṭān Ḥasan Madrasa, and took him to the house of the ʾamīr kabīr Khushqadam, after first having laid in wait for him.
All this while several groups of mamlūks, such as the Nāṣirīya Faraj, the Muʾayyadīya Shaykh, the ʾAshrafīya Barsbāy, the Ẓāhirīya Jaqmaq and the Sayfīya, all had assembled in the house of the ʾamīr kabīr.
None of the amirs and none of the ʾaʿyān ascended to the Qalʿa that day, except for a very small group. When all had assembled at the house of the ʾamīr kabīr, the largest of the ṭawāʾif that day were the ʾAshrafīya and the Ẓāhirīya. The kabīr of the ʾAshrafīya was amir Qurqmās, the ʾamīr majlis. He, however, did not have authority (over the whole group) (kalām), as this belonged to Jānibak al-Qajmāsī al-ʾAshrafī, the mushidd,and to Jānibak min ʾAmīr, the khāzindār. As for the Ẓāhirīya, their kabīr was amir Jānibak Nāʾib Jedda and amir 100. That day, all of his khujdāshīn had come under his power and under his command, because of the sound policy and his excellent management. Authority over the Ẓāhirīya was concentrated in him, up to the extent that he had become their single authority. They were the sensation and he was the meaning*.
This was unlike the ʾAshrafīya, as for these, even though they did agree, there was a difference between their leaders, in comparison to these (i.e. the Ẓāhirīya), (because of) a lack of interest for this important matter and also because they waited for the arrival of their khujdāsh, amir Jānim, the nāʾib of Damascus. Had the matter of al-Muʾayyad not taken them by surprise, they would not have consented to rise on such a day, before their khujdāsh had arrived.