As al-Ẓāhir had taken his seat in the Mabīt Ḥarrāqa at the Bāb al-Silsila, with all the amirs 100 in his company, the people suggested that he would become sultan the following day, even though doing so was possible that day as well. The reason for the delay was the commotion caused by some of the ʾaʿyān of the ʾAshrafīya mamlūks, who had retured to their houses at the ascend of al-Ẓāhir to the Bāb al-Silsila. The amirs found that hard to bear, and most especially the Ẓāhirīya, who knew that the purpose of the ʾAshrafīya was to detain the sultanate of the ʾatābak day after day, expecting Jānim to arrive (in Cairo) before the ʾatābak became sultan, and to force them to remove him (later on, in case he would become sultan) and to have Jānim become sultan.
Jānibak Nāʾib Jidda understood what they were aiming at. He immediately rose to his feet, and went down to Jānibak al-ʾAshrafī, the mushidd, and he kept working him until he rode out together with Jānibak to Jānibak al-ʾAshrafī, the khāzindār. With both of them another group of his khujdāshīya ʾAshrafīya had assembled. The nāʾib of Jedda started winning them over to ascending together with him. Then he started urging them, gently and firmly, through promises and threats, (to accept) the sultanate of the ʾatābak that very day, until they both gave in and ascended with those who were with them together with the nāʾib of Jedda to the ʾIsṭabl Sulṭānī, after the nāʾib of Jedda had pledged himself to them to several matters, including the pledges that Jānibak would be the shādd al-sharābkhānā, as he had been; that he would be favored with an emirate of 100, in addition to an emirate of 40 and a postion of mushidd, which was something that hadn’t happened to anyone before; and that Jānibak al-Ẓarīf al-Khāzindār would be dawādār thānī and an amir of 100, which was also something that hadn’t happened to anyone before, neither in the past or recent times.
The nāʾib of Jedda pledged to all this, in order to accomplish the sultanate of al-Ẓāhir Khushqadam that same day, before something could intervene. He seized the opportunity and he employed the most shrewd (means to do so). Jānibak was one of the men of his age. When he ascended with the group to the Bāb al-Silsila and everybody then agreed over ʾatābak Khushqadam, he became sultan that very day, as we will discuss now.