Stranger than this even is the fact that, in the days of his father, al-Malik al-Muʾayyad had a large group of Ẓāhirīya, ʾAshrafīya and Sayfīya ʾaʿyān accompanying him, walking in his khidma and going with him on the shootings (of game, i.e. hunting) and trips, and that his goodness extended to them in gifts and help in (obtaining) rizqs and positions. None of them ascended to him, everybody turning to ʾatābak Khushqadam and those with him (instead, even) before Khushqadam’s power had started growing and Muʾayyad’s power had started weakening. This is nothing but faithlesness, nothing else.