Before 825 AH, 08/04
Al-Malik al-ʾAshraf continued among the sultan’s mamluks until he became khāṣṣakī. Then he became sāqī in the sultanate of al-Malik al-Manṣūr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq. Then he went out with al-ʾamīr ʾĪnāl Bāy b. Qajmās from Egypt, in opposition to al-Malik al-Nāṣir Faraj, to Syria. Then he joined with the amirs Shaykh and Nawrūz. He went around with them in the time of that disorder, and stayed with them until al-Malik al-Nāṣir Faraj was killed. He came to Cairo in the company of al-ʾamīr al-kabīr Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī. This al-ʾamīr Shaykh granted him an amirate of ten. Then he was transferred to an amirate ṭablakhānāh after he became sultan. He remained in that for some years until he was transferred to an amirate of 100 in Egypt. Then he was appointed kāshif al-turāb in the al-Gharbīya district of Cairo, until al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Shaykh summoned him and he appointed him governor of Tripoli, after the discharge of al-ʾamīr Bardbak Qiṣqā al-Khalīlī from there. That was Monday, 23 Rabīʿ II 821.

When he became governor of Tripoli, there was in his entourage a group of mamluks of my late father. Among them was a person named Sūdūn. He demanded that he go with him to Tripoli, but Sūdūn said, “I won’t leave the Jāmiʿ Ṭūlūn and go to Tripoli.” His khushdāshes ʾAzdamur and Jarbāsh went with him. When al-ʾAshraf became sultan after the events we will mention, he made this ʾAzdamur a sāqī. Sūdūn regretted his separation.

Barsbāy went to the office of governor of Tripoli, together with Sūdūn al-ʾAsandamurī, who had been appointed ʾatābak of Tripoli. He stayed in Tripoli for a period until the ʾĪnālīya, Bayāḍīya and ʾAwsharīya Turkmans attacked Ṣāfītā in the province of Tripoli. They had come to that area fleeing from Qarā Yūsuf. They acted with depravity in the country, so this al-ʾamīr Barsbāy banned them, but they did not go. So he rode against them and battled them on Tuesday, 26 Shaʿbān, 821. Many of them were killed, including al-ʾamīr Sūdun al-ʾAsandamurī, ʾatābak of Tripoli, and 13 of the army of Tripoli. The rest of them scattered destitute. Al-Malik al-Muʾayyad was furious, and ordered his discharge as governor of Tripoli and his detention in the citadel of al-Marqab. Sūdūn al-Qāḍī was appointed governor of Tripoli replacing him. He stayed in prison of al-Marqab for a period until al-Malik al-Muʾayyad wrote the order for his release on 20 Muḥarram, 823. He granted him an amirate of 100 in Damascus. All of that was through the efforts of al-ʾamīr Ṭaṭar. He stayed in Damascus until al-Malik al-Muʾayyad died. Jaqmaq rebelled against Ṭaṭar. He seized Barsbāy and imprisoned him in the citadel of Damascus until al-ʾatābak ʾAlṭunbughā al-Qurmushī released him. He went out to join al-ʾamīr Ṭaṭar when he reached Damascus. He joined him until he honored him with a khilʿa and an appointment as dawādār kabīr after al-ʾamīr ʿAlī Bāy al-Muʾayyadī. His time did not last long as dawādār. Ṭaṭar died after making him lālā to his son al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad and made Jānibak al-Sūfī the ʾatābak the mudabbir mamlaka. The events that we recorded in the biography of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ on his conflict with Jānibak al-Ṣūfī, then with Tarabāy, then the deposition of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ and his sultanate.