05/05/0872:
The following day, Thursday 5, amir Yashbak al-Faqīh announced (the revolt), armed himself, and mounted, together with those in his company of the Muʾayyadīya, the ʾAshrafīya kibār, the ʾAshrafīya ṣighār and the Sayfīya. They all armed themselves, and were joined by large numbers of each ṭāʾifa, as well as the mobs of Cairo.
Those in the citadel heard about them, and feared them a great deal. They too armed themselves and descended with al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Yilbāy to the maqʿad of the ʾIsṭabl Sulṭānī, which overlooked the Ramla. They then started fighting amir Yashbak, together with those in his company, in the streets and roads of al-Ṣalība, though they didn’t know the truth about Yashbak, and until now the agreement between the julbān and the Ẓāhirīya had not been effective, for the agreement between the julbān and the Ẓāhirīya to do what we have mentioned had not been made in the citadel until the end of Thursday. Also the iḥtirāz (?) over the sultan didn’t take place until the end of Thursday. At the beginning of Thursday, the qalʿīyūn had been stupified.