The Rashīdī History 44.3

44.3

Of those Amirs whom Timur had sent into Jatah (that is to say, Moghulistan), Sar Bugha and Adilshah, when they found the country empty, prepared another plan of revolt; they seized Khitai Bahadur, and Ilchi Bugha, while Hamadi, whom Amir Timur had made Governor of Andakan [Andijan], allied himself with them. Having collected their tribes, namely, the Jalair and the Kipchak, they set out against Samarkand, and began to lay siege to it. But the inhabitants defended themselves so successfully with arrows and darts, that they could not surround the town. Amir Ak Bugha, who was governor of the town, wrote of this matter to Timur, who having passed Kat had just attained Khas, when this news reached him. He immediately made preparations to return, and, having sent forward his son Jahangir, in command of the vanguard, he himself followed with a large army. When he reached Bokhara he put his men into fighting order, and went and encamped at Rabat-i-Malik.