I say: A part of the story of this Yashbak with ʾamīr kabīr ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī is that, when al-Qurmushī left Egypt to Syria, with amirs Ṭūghān the ʾamīr ʾākhūr, ʾAlṭunbughā min ʿAbd al-Wahid al-Ṣaghīr, the raʾs nawbat al-nuwab, ʾAzdamur al-Nāṣirī, ʾĀq Bulāṭ al-Damurdāshī, Sūdūn al-Lakkāshī and Julbān the ʾamīr ʾākhūr who became nāʾib of Damascus in the sultanate of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Jaqmaq, before he left Cairo al-Malik al-Muʾayyad told them secretly to arrest amir Yashbak al-Yūsufī, the nāʾib of Aleppo, if this were possible. Al-Qurmushī left to Syria as commander of the armies, then he went to the region of Aleppo, then he and his companions left Aleppo to where al-Malik al-Muʾayyad had sent them and returned to Aleppo in the beginnings of 824. They stayed there and amir Yashbak, the nāʾib of Aleppo, mistrusted them and al-Qurmushī did not dare to arrest him. In this situation the news of the death of sultan al-Malik al-Muʾayyad reached them and the amirs on the campaign were agitated. ʾAmīr kabīr ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī decided to return to Egypt and his companions amongst the amirs agreed on that. They left to the outskirts of Aleppo, through the Bāb al-Maqām. This reached amir Yashbak, the nāʾib of Aleppo, who had not left to say them farewell, and he decided to go to them and attack them. This reached al-Qurmushī immediately and he sent his dawādār al-Sayfī Khushkaldī al-Qurmushī . Khushkaldī told me personally: “My ʾustādh, amir ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī sent me to go amir Yashbak and to give him his message. I went to him but he had ascended the minaret of the mosque of Aleppo, so I went up to him and greeted him, he returned my greeting and said “Give what you have”. I said: “I’m tired from climbing the steps, let me wait a moment”, I came from one ruler to another, so let me wait a moment.”. Then I anticipated him and said: “Al-ʾamīr kabīr greets you and says to you that he has been informed that you wants to attack him with your followers amongst the amirs and he asks what you want to obtain by attacking him. Ṭaṭar is in charge of Egypt and Jaqmaq of Syria, so head for them, as they are the most important ones. If you drive them out of what they possess we are in your grasp, if it be otherwise, why do you wish to harass us for the benefit of others than yourself, we are only simple travellers, far from our land. When he heard what I said, I remained silent for a moment, then he said: Then let them travel, who stand in their way, and who is it that fights them, or words to that effect. I kissed his hand and took the answer back to the ʾamīr kabīr, but before I could give him the message, Yashbak had come down from the minaret and immediately put on the emblems of war, as did his mamluks, and went to the amirs, who were in al-Saʿdī. When the Egyptian amirs saw him, they mounted and returned to him, and delivered one charge in which he was defeated, thrown of his horse and his head was immediately cut off. ʾAmīr kabīr ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī and his followers amongst the amirs returned to Aleppo, and stopped at the Dār al-Saʿāda. A strange coincidence was that the meal of amir Yashbak had been prepared, but he had postponed it until he had captured the amirs and would then return to eat it, but he was killed immediately and al-Qurmushī and his followers entered. The meal was spread out before them and they ate as they were in need of food. Al-Qurmushī stayed in Aleppo for a while until amir ʾAlṭunbughā min ʿAbd al-Wāhid al-Ṣaghīr, the raʾs nawba, was appointed as nāʾib of Aleppo. He returned to Damascus and joined amir Jaqmaq the nāʾib of Damascus, to fight the Egyptians because they had violated the last will of al-Malik al-Muʾayyad, that his son should become sultan and ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī should be in control of the government. But amir Ṭaṭar had violated this and had taken the leadership, and had vacated the ʾiqṭāʿs of the amirs who had campaigned with him. In the meanwhile news reached them that amir Ṭaṭar had decided to leave Egypt with sultan al-Malik al-Muẓaffar, towards Syria, so they prepared to fight him. Then, after a while, there was a conflict between the two of them, they fought each other, and Jaqmaq fled to al-Ṣubayba; and al-Qurmushī took control of Damascus, as will be narrated. This is what happened in the relations of al-Qurmushī with Yashbak.