In 769/1367, appointed to the rank of atābak al-ʿasākir by Sultan al-Ashraf Shaʿbān463
Shaykhū was his father-in-law (rabīb)464,465
In 769/1367, Khalīl was promised the sultanate, after his rebellion against al-Ashraf Shaʿbān, because he was al-Nāṣir Muḥammad’s grandson and his own daughter’s son465