Before 19/10/814
“And Manṣūr was guilty of many other similar deeds. During many years, before al-Manṣūr was crippled, al-malik al-Ẓāhir was generally accustomed to send for him to attend his social gatherings (majlis ʾunsi-hi), and would treat him as a boon companion. On such occasions when al-Manṣūr was intoxicated he would become boorish in his attitude toward al-Ẓāhir, and address him, without any show of respect (taḥashshum) by his personal name. Al-Ẓāhir would then smile and say to al-Manṣūr’s attendants: ‘Take the prince (sayyidī) ʾAmīr Ḥājjī home”, while al-Manṣūr would continue his reviling and cursing. This used to vex al-Ẓāhir’s attendants, who would urge him not to continue his association with al-Manṣūr, but al-Ẓāhir would pay no attention to them, and the next morning al-Manṣūr would apologize to the sultan for what he had done the previous day. AFter a while, however, when this had recurred many times, al-Ẓāhir would not meet him except at festivals (al-ʾaʿyād) and on state occasions (al-mawāsim); and finally, when al-Manṣūr lost the ability to move, al-Ẓāhir cut himself off from him entirely.