Baybughā b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Muẓaffarī al-Ẓāhirī, amir Sayf al-Dīn, ʾatābak al-ʿasākir of Egypt.
He was originally one of the mamluks of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq and one of his khāssakī. Then he was transferred in the reign of al-Nāṣir Faraj until he became amir of 10 of Egypt. He stayed in this position until al-Malik al-Nāṣir Faraj left on campaign to Syria in 814 to fight against amir Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī and Nawrūz al-Ḥāfiẓī. Al-Malik al-Nāṣir Faraj sent some of the amirs before him as vanguard, and amir Baybughā was part of this vanguard. They went on until they arrived at Damascus. Everybody entered at the Dār al-Saʿāda where my father was, who was confined to his bed and they complained to him about what al-Nāṣir had done to them and to other amirs and soldiers. They informed him that they had gone to the two amirs. Then they left him and went all to the amirs and some of the amirs rebelled against al-Nāṣir. The amirs of 100 were: amir Baktamur Jallaq; amir Ṭūghān al-Ḥasanī the dawādār, amir Baybughā, and some others. Baybughā stayed at the side of amir Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī and entered Egypt with him, after defeating al-Malik al-Nāṣir Faraj in the mentioned year in Damascus. He honoured him with an amirate of 100 in Cairo, as he had been before. Then he made him ʾatābak of Damascus after a while, and he went tot Damascus and stayed there until the nāʾib of Damascus, Qānī Bāy al-Muḥammadī rebelled against al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Shaykh, in the year 818, and then fought against the amirs of Damascus. Baybughā had chosen the side of al-Malik al-Muʾayyad and Qānī Bāy fought against those of the amirs and others who joined him. Then Baybughā was defeated and fled to a land in the East, until al-Malik al-Muʾayyad left Egypt to fight Qānī Bāy, and defeated him, amir ʾĪnāl al-Ṣaṣlānī, the nāʾib of Aleppo and others. Thereupon al-Malik al-Muʾayyad gave Baybughā another amirate of 100 in Egypt, and took him with him and Baybughā returned to Cairo, but he stayed only a short period in this situation, as al-Malik al-Muʾayyad arrested him for the second time, and he was imprisoned in the fortress of Alexandria, until amir Ṭaṭar released him after the death of al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Shaykh, and honoured him with an amirate of 100, as he had been before. Then he became ʾamīr majlis, then ʾamīr silāḥ. He stayed in this position until al-Malik al-ʾAshraf Barsbāy became sultan. He gave him a robe of honour and appointed him ʾatābak al-ʿasākir, after the arrest of Ṭarabāy. This was in the year 824. Amir Qujaq became ʾamīr silāḥ in his place. Baybughā stayed in this function until al-Malik al-ʾAshraf Barsbāy arrested him on Saturday 29/10/827. He was brought to Alexandria and imprisoned there for a while until al-Malik al-ʾAshraf released him and ordered him to stay at the fortress of Damietta as baṭṭāl. He left to Damietta and stayed there until he was transferred to Jerusalem also as baṭṭāl, after the intercession of his wife, Khawand Qunuqbāy, the mother of al-Malik al-Manṣūr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Barqūq. He only stayed a short period in Jerusalem, as he was summoned in Cairo and honoured with an amirate of 100. He became ʾamīr majlis, but he sat in the khidma of the sultan as raʾs maysara, contrary to the principles of the amirs majlis, this because of his former position. He stayed in this situation for a short period, than he died from the plague on Wednesday night 6 Jumādā II 833. He was more or less 60 years old.
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