Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.13.8
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 79.13.8
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79.13.8
Muzaffar at a moment's acquaintance treated Zain-ud-din as if he had known him for a thousand years. To Khwajagi Muhammad Salih, a former Sadr, who had been appointed to accompany I'timad Khan, he from a feeling of generosity granted his life, and allowed him to go on a pilgrimage. And to Qutb-ud-din Muhammad Khan, the eye of whose penetration was blinded by the injury of fate, and whose bark was foundering through calamity, he gave quarter, and so enticed him out of the fortress. He, little suspecting the treachery of Muzaffar, came out with the greatest weakness, and when he saw him offered him boundless salutations: —