Obituaries of 815:
11. Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Faraj ʾAbu l-Saʿādāt b. al-Malik al-Ẓāhir ʾAbi l-Saʿīd Barqūq b. ʾAnas al-ʿUthmānī. He was killed in this year, as already mentioned in a separate part. He was born, when Yalbughā al-Nāṣirī and Minṭāsh started, in the year 791. It is said that al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, when he announced his birth, gave him the name Balghāq, which means his ?, but when he was released from Kerak he gave him the name Faraj, and this was his real first name. He was the fifth of the male children, and the 10th with the girls counted. His way of living during his sultanate was not praiseworthy and he enjoyed all the worldly pleasures. He was generous except that most of what he offered was for others than his people. He played music and drank wine and other alcoholic beverages. In councils there were comedies and innumerable and indescribable words of infidels. He was not very corrupt, until at the end of his reign, because he shed much blood then. He did not pay attention to religion, not to the prayers, and he had 10 paid imams with him and most of the time they praid instead of him. It is said that he spent most of the day in impurity and God took him in this world before the hereafter without crime. The reason for his corruptness was no other than some of the Turks who guarded him and taught him the rest of misfortunes, but when hardship afflicted him none of them stayed with him.