824 AH, Beginnings of the year:
The year 824 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, and the Ḥijāz was sultan al-Malik al-Muʾayyad ʾAbu ʾl-Naṣr Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī al-Ẓāhirī, and he was ill. The major part of the army of Egypt was in Aleppo, under ʾamīr kabīr ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī, the ʾatābak al-ʿasākir, with the amirs Ṭūghān, theʾamīr ʾākhūr, ʾAlṭunbughā min ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, known as al-Ṣaghīr, the raʾs nawbat al-nuwwāb, ʾAlṭunbughā al-Marqabī, the ḥājib al-ḥujjāb, Jarbāsh al-Karīmī, the raʾs nawba, and others. With the sultan were the amirs Qujqār al-Qurdumī, the ʾamīr silāḥ, Ṭaṭar, the ʾamīr majlis, Tanbak Miyiq al-ʿAlāyī and Muqbil, the dawādār . The wazīr at that moment was ṣāḥib Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Naṣr Allāh, and the function of nāẓir al-khāṣṣ was vacant, despite the fact that the sultan had made al-ṭawashī Murjān al-Hindi responsible for this. The ʾustādār was amir Yashbak ʾĪnālī, the kātib al-sirr was Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Bārizī. The chief judge was shaykh al-ʾislām Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Bulqīnī al-Shāfiʿī, the Hanafite chief judge was Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tafhanī, the Malikite judge in the land of Egypt was Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Basāṭī and the Hanbalite chief judge was ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Mughallī. The nāʾib of Alexandria was amir Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʾAḥmad b. ʿUmar b. al-ʿAṭṭār, the nāʾib of Ghazza was ʾArkamās al-Julbānī, the nāʾib of Damascus was amir Jaqmaq the dawādār and the nāʾib of Aleppo was amir Yashbak al-Yūsufī. The nāʾib of Qayṣarīyat al-Rūm was Muḥammad Bayk b. Dulghādir al-Turkumānī, the nāʾib of Ṣafad was amir Quṭlubughā al-Tanamī, the nāʾib of Tripoli was ʾAsanbughā al-Zardkāsh, and the nāʾib of Hama was ʾĀq Bulāṭ. The amir of Mecca was sharīf Ḥasan b. ʿAjlān and the amir of Medina was al-Sharīf ʿUzayr b. Hiyāziʿ. The ruler of Yemen was al-Malik al-Nāṣir ʾAḥmad b. al-ʾAshraf ʾIsmāʿīl. The ruler of Bilād al-Sharq was Shāh Rukh b. Timūr Kurkān. The ruler of Bilād al-Rūm was sultan Muḥammad Kurashjī b. Khawandkār Bāyazīd b. Murād b. ʿUthmān. The muḥtasib of Cairo was ʾIbrāhīm b. al-Wazīr Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusām. The wālī of Cairo was Baklamish b. Farā, the kāshif of al-Wajh al-Qiblī was Damurdāsh and the kāshif of al-Wajh al-Baḥrī was Ḥusayn al-Kurdī b. al-Shaykh ʿUmar, and he was praiseworthy for his way of living, as already mentioned.