824 AH, 02/12:
The people started to distribute their objects out of their houses and bars because of fear for unrest. In the morning of Su, 04/12, the sultan died. The people were upset for one hour, then he was washed and brought outside through the Bāb al-Silsila, with no more then 20 men with him, and he was buried near the tomb of al-Layth b. Saʿd on the cemetery. Since the death of al-Muʾayyad he had been in power for five days less then eleven months, of which he was sultan 94 days. He was Circassian, the merchants raised him and taught him something about the Koran and about Hanafite fiqh. He arrived in Cairo in the year 801, while he was still a boy, and amir Qānibayh al-ʿAlāʾī drew attention to him as he was related to him, and recommended him to sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, until he took him from his merchant, but the sultan died before his price was paid. ʾAmīr kabīr ʾAytamish paid his price, 12000 dirham and he put him with the other mamluks in the barracks, and he was raised amongst them. Al-Malik al-Nāṣir Faraj emancipated him, but he continued to be just one of the mamluks of the barracks, until al-Nāṣir returned to the sultanate, after his brother al-Manṣūr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. He gave him a horse, and gave him an ʾiqṭāʿ in the ḥalqa. He associated with Nawrūz al-Ḥāfiẓī. In the course of these conflicts he stayed on his side and fled to him, to Syria. Then he left him, and joined the group of amir Shaykh, and stayed with him until al-Nāṣir died. Then Shaykh went to Miṣr and became sultan. He made Ṭaṭar amir, and this last one changed positions until he became sultan and he did not weaken. At first he was like one who is kept under the ‘stone’ (control) byʾAlībayh the dawādār and Taghrī Birdī min Qaṣrūḥ. When leaving Aleppo, he became ill and he only stayed 18 days in the citadel. His illness forced him to stay in bed until he died. He was inclined to piety, but with flexibility, he was indulgent and had a noble mind, despite some inconstancy and lightheadedness. He was a fervent follower of the Hanafite school, and did not want to appoint any of the jurists, except the Hanafite ones. During his reign-how short it may have been- he destroyed many thing and brought a lot of troubles to the state, which would continue for the ones after him, but his reign did not last long enough to thank or dispraise him for his deeds.