821 AH, Tu, 26/08:
On Tuesday 26/08 in the morning the sultan assembled the chief judges and the caliph and summoned Shaykh al-ʾIslām Jalāl al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī. He told them the news of Qarā Yūsuf and the fear, fright and flight that had afflicted the people of Aleppo and of Hama. He told them that the price of the donkeys there had reached 500 dirhams of silver, and that of a packhorse was 50 dinar. He also said that Qarā Yūsuf had marriage ties with forty women, and did not adhere to the Islam. A fatwa was written in the council in which many of his horrendous deeds, his attacks on the frontier of the Muslims and similar things were mentioned. Al-Bulqīnī and the chief judges then wrote the authorization for his killing, and the caliph added his signature. Then they left, with amir Muqbil the dawādār. They announced, in the presence of the caliph and the chief judges, to the people of Cairo, that it was legal to shed the blood of Qarā Yūsuf and to capture his women, and that they all had to wage a holy war against him, with their possessions and their lives. When the people heard this, they were astounded and very disturbed. Then it was written to the Syrian provinces to make similar announcements in every city, and to announce that the sultan in person was coming to them. Then, on Wednesday, 27/08, it was announced in Cairo to the soldiers of the ḥalqa to prepare for the journey to Syria, and those who stayed behind were threatened with such-and-such penalties.