As for the khāṣṣakīya, they are the ones who stay with the sultan during his private times. They carry along the august maḥmil, hey are entrusted with bringing the chores/missions to a good end. They are sent on the august missions. They are destined for the amirate, and they are the favourites in the realm. During the reign of al-Malik an-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn there used to be forty khāṣṣakīyaʾs, then that was augmented, until during the reign of al-ʾAshraf Barsbāy they became about one thousand.