Chapter on the events of the year 816.
This year started and the sultan of Egypt and its lands was al-Muʾayyad Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī. The caliph was al-Mustaʿīn bi-llāh, but he was confined in the citadel, without deputy for him in Egypt. The ʾatābak al-ʿasākir was amir Yalbughā al-Nāṣirī and the ʾamīr silāḥ was Shāhīn al-ʾAfram. The dawādār kabīr was Ṭūghrān al-Ḥasanī. The ʾamīr ʾākhūr kabīr was Qanibāy al-Muḥammadī. The qāḍī al-quḍāt al-shāfiʿī was Jalāl al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī, the qāḍī al-quḍāt al-ḥanafī was Ṣadr al-Dīn b. al-ʾĀdamī,the qāḍī al-quḍāt al-mālikī was Shams al-Dīn al-Madanī and the qāḍī al-quḍāt al-ḥanbalī was Majd al-Dīn Sālim. The wazīr was Saʿd al-Dīn b. al-Bashīrī, the nāẓir al-khāṣṣ was Taqī al-Dīn b. ʾAbī Shākir, the nāẓir al-jaysh was Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Naṣr Allāh and the kātib al-sirr was Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Bārizī al-Ḥamawī.Amongst the mubāshirūn, the ʾustādār was amir Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Ṭarabulusī. The ḥājib al-ḥujjāb was amir ʾĪnāl al-Ṣaṣlānī and the wālī of Cairo was amir Tāj al-Dīn al-Shāmī. The nāʾib of Alexandria was amir Khalīl al-Dushārī and the nāʾib of Ghazza was amir Altunbughā al-ʿUthmānī, who doubted between staying or fleeing. The nāʾib of Damascus was amir Nawrūz al-Ḥāfiẓi, who did not obey al-Muʾayyad. The nāʾib of Ṣafad was amir ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī, on the side of al-Muʾayyad, the nāʾib of Tripoli was amir Ṭawkh, on the side of Nawrūz, the nāʾib of Aleppo was amir Yashbak b. ʾAzdamur, on the side of Nawrūz.