Obituaries of 823:
The ruler of Bagdad, Tabriz and Iraq, amir Qarā Yūsuf b. amir Qarā Muḥammad b. Bayram Khujā al-Turkumānī died on 14/11. He was succeeded by his son Shāh Muḥammad b. Qarā Yūsuf. The first of his ancestors who became known was Bayram Khujā, after the year 760, he took Mosul by conquest, until it was taken from him by Uways, and Bayram Khujā ruled until his death as a governour under Uways. He was succeeded by his son Muḥammad, who died in 791 and was succeeded by his son Qarā Yūsuf. Al-Qān Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʾAḥmad b. Uways, lord of Bagdad fought with him for Mosul and because of this there were several battles between them until they made peace. Qarā Yūsuf attached himself to sultan ʾAḥmad and helped him in his battles. The account of his entrance in Syria and his advance with amir Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī to Cairo had preceded in connection with the Battle of al-Saʿādīya with al-Malik al-Nāṣir and the return of Qarā Yūsuf to his land, also in a number of other passages. There was a disagreement between Qarā Yūsuf and sultan ʾAḥmad, they fought each other and Qarā Yūsuf defeated sultan ʾAḥmad and took Bagdad. He stayed there until the grandson of Tīmūrlank, ʾAmīrzah ʾAbū Bakr b. Mīrān Shāh b. Tīmūr drove him out. Qarā Yūsuf fled to Damascus and arrived there in Rabīʿ II of 806. Amir Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī, the nāʾib of Damascus (I mean al-Muʾayyad), arrested him with sultan ʾAḥmad and imprisoned them in the citadel. This was the first hostile event between Qarā Yūsuf and al-Muʾayyad. They stayed in prison until he released them in Rajab of 807. He gave a robe of honour to Qarā Yūsuf, gave him gifts and took him with him to Egypt. He was present at the fore-mentioned battle of al-Saʿīdīya-Qarā Yūsuf came in his movement as far as the Dār al-Ḍiyāfa near the citadel, but did not enter Cairo. Then he returned to his land. Again there were battles between sultan ʾAḥmad and Qarā Yūsuf until Qarā Yūsuf defeated sultan ʾAḥmad and killed him in 813. From that time he ruled the two Iraqs. He sent his son Shāh Muḥammad to Bagdad, there were battles between the latter and the people of Bagdad and many things happen that would take to long to explain. From the day his bad luck came to it, conflicts increased in Bagdad until Bagdad and the whole of Iraq were ruined by many conflicts, in the days of this Qarā Yūsuf and his sons after him. Qarā Yūsuf remained the ruler there until he died on the mentioned date. He was succeeded in Bagdad by his son Shāh Muḥammad, who became a Christian, called the people to become Christians and persecuted the ʿulamāʾ and other Muslims. Then he was succeeded by ʾIskandar, and he was the same as Shāh Muḥammad and worse. Then came their brother ʾIṣbahān, a heretic without profession. Qarā Yūsuf and his descendants were the reason of the destruction of Bagdad, that had been the throne of the Islam, the source of knowledge and the place where leaders and standard bearers were buried. Nowadays of his offspring is left Jahān Shāh, ruler of the two Iraqs and Azerbaijan and up to the frontier with Persia the people live in fear because they know he is from that abominable and ugly descent-May God the exalted let him meet his infidel and heretic ancestors and brothers who were before him, as they were the most evil group and the most ugly of peoply in conduct- and may this be soon, no far off!