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Reference
5: 485, 6-16
Text
إلى أن قدم إلى صفد خبر الملك الظاهر برقوق، وخروجه من حبس الكرك، جمع النظامي عسكر صفد ليتوجه بهم إلى نائب دمشق نجدة على الظاهر وأبقى يلبغا السالمي بالمدينة، فقام يلبغا السالمي في طائفة من المماليك الذين استمالهم، وأفرج عن الأمير إينال اليوسفي نائب حلب كان، وعن الأمير قجماس ابن عم السلطان الملك الظاهر برقوق، ونحو المائتين من المماليك الظاهرية من سجن صفد، ونادى بشعار الملك الظاهر برقوق، وأراد القبض على الأمير قطلوبك النظامي فلم يثبت النظامي، وفر في مملوكين، فاستولى السالمي ومن معه على مدينة صفد وقلعتها، وصار الأمير إينال اليوسفي هو القائم بمدينة صفد، والسالمي في خدمته، وأرسلوا إلى الملك الظاهر بذلك. وكان هذا الخبر من أعظم الأمور على منطاش، وزاد قلقه، وكثرت مقالة الناس في أمر الملك الظاهر، ثم تواترت الأخبار بأمر الملك الظاهر.
Summary
791 AH, before 15/10
When finally the news of al-malik al-Ẓāhir’s departure from the prison of al-Karak had reached Ṣafad, al-Niẓāmī, gathering the armies of that city in order to lead them to the governor of Damascus as reinforcements against al-Ẓāhir, had left Yalbughā al-Sālimī in Ṣafad. The latter had now led a group of mamlūks whom he had won over, had released from the prison of Ṣafad amir ʾĪnāl al-Yūsufī, former governor of Aleppo, and Qajmās, nephew of al-malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq, together with about two hundred mamlūks ẓāhirīya, and proclaiming his adherence to the cause of al-Ẓāhir (nādā bi-shiʿār al-malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq) had planned to seize amir Quṭlūbak al-Niẓāmī, the governor. Though the latter had not waited long enough for him to do so but had escaped with two mamlūks, al-Sālimī with his followers had taken possession both of the city and of the citadel of Ṣafad. ʾĪnāl al-Yūsufī had then taken over control of the city, with al-Sālimī in service under him; and they had notified al-Ẓāhir of what had taken place. This report was one that weighed most seriously on Minṭāsh when it reached him; he was in great trepidation, while al-Ẓāhir’s progress was the subject of conversation everywhere.
When finally the news of al-malik al-Ẓāhir’s departure from the prison of al-Karak had reached Ṣafad, al-Niẓāmī, gathering the armies of that city in order to lead them to the governor of Damascus as reinforcements against al-Ẓāhir, had left Yalbughā al-Sālimī in Ṣafad. The latter had now led a group of mamlūks whom he had won over, had released from the prison of Ṣafad amir ʾĪnāl al-Yūsufī, former governor of Aleppo, and Qajmās, nephew of al-malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq, together with about two hundred mamlūks ẓāhirīya, and proclaiming his adherence to the cause of al-Ẓāhir (nādā bi-shiʿār al-malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq) had planned to seize amir Quṭlūbak al-Niẓāmī, the governor. Though the latter had not waited long enough for him to do so but had escaped with two mamlūks, al-Sālimī with his followers had taken possession both of the city and of the citadel of Ṣafad. ʾĪnāl al-Yūsufī had then taken over control of the city, with al-Sālimī in service under him; and they had notified al-Ẓāhir of what had taken place. This report was one that weighed most seriously on Minṭāsh when it reached him; he was in great trepidation, while al-Ẓāhir’s progress was the subject of conversation everywhere.
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