791 AH, 15/11
On this same day Minṭāsh received a report of events which had taken place in Ṣafad and involving a former mamlūk of Barqūq’s named Yalbughā al-Sālimī. Al-Sālimī as a mamlūk had been put by Barqūq under the charge of the eunuch Bahādur al-Shihābī, barrack commander of the mamlūks, who had trained him and then made him his own armor bearer. Then when al-Ẓāhir banished Bahādur to Syria, Yalbughā al-Sālimī passed into the charge of his successor as barrack commander, Ṣawāb al-Saʿdī Shankal, and had become his assistant executive secretary (dawādāra-hu al-ṣaghīr). When in turn Shankal had been arrested by al-Nāṣirī, Yalbughā al-Sālimī had entered the service of Quṭlūbak al-Niẓāmī, governor of Ṣafad, and had become his executive secretary (dawādār); as such his treatment of the inhabitants of Ṣafad had been admirable.