Obituaries of 816:
Qāḍī Fatḥ Allāh b. Mustaʿṣim b. Nafīs, the kātib al-sirr was strangled on Sunday night, 05/03, in the house of wālī Tāj al-Shāmī. He suffered a lot from the beatings and the torture, and was brought out on Sunday, and buried in his tomb, in al-Ṣāḥrāʾ, but nobody had the courage to accompany the funeral procession. Before his death, al-Muʾayyad had taken 40000 dinar from him, and had controlled all his revenues, his possessions, his employers, and his relationships in Egypt and Syria and in other places. He was of Jewish descent and converted to Islam, following the example of his uncle, who was head of the physicians. He was poor in his youth, then he joined amir Shaykh al-Ṣafadī and overpowered him until he took possession of all his ʾiqtā’s and relations, and he obtained a large sum of money, then Shaykh married his daughter to him, and because of this he obtained a lot of power. Then he introduced him to the sultan as head of the physicians, and because of this he became part of the entourage of sultan al-Ẓāhir, and when Badr al-Dīn al-Kilistānī, the kātib al-sirr died, al-Ẓāhir appointed him to replace him and he stayed kātib al-sirr, until Barqūq died, then he was confirmed in this function, in the days of his son, al-Nāṣir. He obtained from al-Nāṣir what we already mentioned. Then his situation was settled until the things that happened because of al-Muʾayyad happened to him. He had collected a indescribable amount of valuable books, but all of them were lost.