Chapter on what happened in the year 817:
The year started and the sultan of Egypt was al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Shaykh, who had no authority in Damascus, nor in Aleppo and their cities, because they had revolted. The caliph was al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh Dāwud b. al-Mutawakkil ʿAlā Allāh. The ʾatābak al-ʿasākir of Egypt was amir Yalbughā al-Nāṣirī and the qāḍī al-quḍāt al-shāfiʿīya was Jalāl al-Dīn Abu l-Faḍl b. al-Bulqīnī. The Hanafite qāḍī was Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-ʿAdīm . The Malikite qāḍī was Shihāb al-Dīn al-ʾUmawī and the Hanbalite qāḍī was Majd al-Dīn Sālim al-ʿAsqalānī. The wazīr was Tāj al-Dīn b. al-Hayṣim and the nāẓir al-khāṣṣ was Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Naṣr Allāh. The nāẓir al-jaysh was ʿAlam al-Dīn b. Kuwayz and the ʾustādār al-ʿālīya was Fakhr al-Dīn b. ʾAbi l-Faraj. The kātib al-sirr was Nāṣir al-Dīn b. al-Bārizī. The nāʾib of Alexandria was Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Muḥibb al-Dīn. The nāʾib of Ghazza was amir Sūdūn Qarāṣaqal, on the side of al-Muʾayyad and the ruler of whole Syria was amir Nawrūz al-Ḥāfiẓī, because of his victory. The nāʾib of Tripoli was amir Qamish and the nāʾib of Aleppo was amir Ṭawkh, both on the side of Nawrūz.