The Nāṣirī Generations 268.8

268.8

All at once they [the Mughals] beat kettledrums and raised a shout, and every Mughal infidel and renegade, who was buying and selling with the Musalmans, seized, on the spot, those Musalmans and slew them, with the exception of the persons whose lives Almighty God had spared; and all who had arms with them, or displayed knives, them they first deprived of their weapons, and then slew them. At this place an incident occurs, and a piece of advice for observers and readers offers; and it is this: There was a leader among the soldiery [in the fortress], a Nīshāpūrī, a thorough man, whom they were wont to style Fakhr-ud-Dīn, Muhammad-i-Arzīz-gar [the worker in tin], one among the followers of Amīr Habashī-i-Nezah-war, who was, at this time, in the fortress of Saif-rūd, in the service of Malik Kutb-ud-Dīn, Husain. He [Fakhr-ud-Dīn] also had gone into the camp of the Mughals, and was buying and selling; and, in the leg of his boot, he had a knife in shape like a poniard. A Mughal, who was trafficking with him, desired to seize him, but he laid hand on his knife, and drew it out of the leg of his boot. The Mughal stayed his hand from him, and Fakhr-ud-Dīn again placed his foot to the mountain, and returned in safety to the fortress.