تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.19.2

10.19.2

ومنهم الشيخ الصالح العالم صدر الدين الكهراني ، بضم الكاف وسكون الهاء وراء ونون، وكان يصوم الدهر ويقوم الليل وتجرد عن الدنيا جميعا ونبذها، ولباسه عباءة، ويزوره السلطان وأهل الدولة، وربما احتجب عنهم فرغب السلطان منه أن يقطعه قرى يطعم منها الفقراء والواردين، فأبى ذلك، وزاره يوما وأتى إليه بعشرة آلاف دينار فلم يقبلها، وذكروا أنه لا يفطر إلا بعد ثلاث، وأنه قيل له في ذلك، فقال: لا أفطر حتى اضطر فتحل لي الميتة.

Among them is the pious and learned shaykh Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Kuhrānī, with u after the k, the h unvowelled, then r and n. He fasted continually and stood in prayer through the night; he had stripped himself entirely of the world and cast it away, and his clothing was a cloak of coarse wool. The sultan and the men of state visited him, and sometimes he secluded himself from them. The sultan wished to grant him villages from which he might feed the faqīrs and visitors, but he refused. One day he visited him and brought him ten thousand dinars, but he would not accept them. They say that he breaks his fast only after three days, and when he was asked about this he said: "I do not break my fast until I am in such extremity that carrion becomes lawful for me."