823 AH,13/08:
In the meanwhile al-Qurmushī had been preparing for the journey to the Eastern Land as commander of the armies. The next day, Saturday, 13/08 ʾamīr kabīr ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī took his battalion from Cairo to al-Raydānīya, outside Cairo, and with him were a number of the amirs of 100: amir ʾAlṭunbughā min ʿAbd al-Wāhid, known as al-Ṣaghīr, the raʾs nawbat al-nuwab, amir Ṭūghān the ʾamīr ʾākhūr kabīr, amir ʾAlṭunbughā al-Marqabī, the ḥājib al-ḥujjāb, amir Julbān, who had been ʾamīr ʾākhūr, amir Jarbāsh al-Karīmī Qāshiq, amir ʾĀqbulāṭ al-Sayfī Damurdāsh and amir ʾAzdamur al-Nāṣirī. The sultan urged them to go to Aleppo in fear of the advance of Qarā Yūsuf.