Chapter on what happened in the year 818.
The year started and the the sultan of the lands of Egypt and Syria was al-Malik al-Muʾayyad ʾAbu l-Naṣr Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī. The caliph was al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh Abu l-Fatḥ Dāwud b. al-Mutawakkil ʿAlā Allāh al-ʿAbbāsī, and the dismissed caliph was al-Mustaʿīn bi-llāh, who was imprisoned in the citadel with the control of the distinguished since the time that al-Muʾayyad had become sultan. The nāʾib of Damascus was amir Qanibāy al-Muḥammadī and the nāʾib of Aleppo was amir ʾĪnāl al-Ṣaṣlānī al-Maḥmūdī. The nāʾib of Tripoli was amir Sūdun min ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and the nāʾib of Hama was Tanbak al-Bajāsī. The nāʾib of Alexandria was amir Ṣūmāy al-Ḥasanī, and the nāʾib of Ghazza was amir Ṭarabāy. The ʾamīr kabīr of Egypt was amir ʾAlṭunbughā al-ʿUthmānī and theʾamir ʾākhūr kabīr was amir ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurashī. The dawādār kabīr was amir ʾAqbāy, a mamluk of al-Muʾayyad and the raʾs nawba kabīr was Tanbāk Bīq. The ʾamīr majlis was amir Jānibāk al-Ṣūfī and the ʾustādār al-ʿālīya was amir Badr-al-Dīn Ḥasan Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Ṭarābulusī. The wazīr was Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. Hayṣim and the nāẓir al-khāṣṣ was Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Naṣr Allāh. The nāẓir al-jaysh was ʿAlam al-Dīn Dāwud b. Kuwayz. The kātib al-sirr was Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Bārizī al-Ḥamawī.The qāḍī al-shāfiʿī was Jalāl al-Dīn b. al-Bulqīnī. The qāḍī al-ḥanafī was Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. al-ʿAdīm. The qāḍī al-mālikī was Jamāl al-Dīn al-ʾAfqahs. The qāḍī al-ḥanbalī was Majd al-Dīn Sālim.