[5] Especially if the inexperience was due to youth, Sayyid-Aḥmad may be identified as the son of anti-Lithuanian Karīm Berdi,[6] rather than as Chekre's cousin.
[8] Coins were now struck in Darwīsh's name at Bolghar, (old) Astrakhan, and Solkhat in the Crimea, indicating his recognition along the Volga and in the southwest of the Golden Horde.
The coins minted in the Crimea also featured the name of the beglerbeg Edigu, highlighting his control over the khan's court in a more ostentatious manner than before.
He defeated and killed Darwīsh, while Edigu fled to the Crimea, where he raised Beg Ṣūfī to the throne as his next protégé.
[10] According to the Muʿizz al-ansāb and Tawārīḫ-i guzīdah-i nuṣrat-nāmah, Darwīsh had a daughter, Shukr-Bīka, who married the Timurid pādishāh Ulugh Beg.