تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.10.4

11.10.4

وكان لا يركب لجمعة ولا عيد ولا سواهما، وسبب ذلك أنه كان له ابن أخ يسمى سليمان شاه ، وكان يحبه ويعظمه، فركب يوما إلى الصيد وهو معه وأضمر في نفسه أن يفعل به ما فعل هو بعمه جلال الدين من الفتك، فلما نزل للغداء رماه بنشابة فصرعه وغطاه بعض عبيده بترس وأتى ابن أخيه ليجهز عليه فقال له العبيد: إنه قد مات فصدقهم، وركب فدخل القصر على الحرم، وأفاق السلطان علاء الدين من غشيته وركب واجتمعت العساكر عليه، وفر ابن أخيه فأدرك وأوتي به إليه فقتله، وكان بعد ذلك لا يركب.

He would not ride out for the Friday prayer, nor for a festival, nor on any other occasion. The reason for this was that he had a nephew called Sulaymān Shāh, whom he loved and honoured. One day he rode out to hunt with him, and [the nephew] secretly resolved to do to him what he himself had done to his uncle Jalāl al-Dīn, namely to murder him. When he dismounted for the midday meal, [the nephew] shot him with an arrow and knocked him down; one of his slaves covered him with a shield, and his nephew came to finish him off, but the slaves told him: "He is already dead," and he believed them. He rode off and entered the palace, going in to the women's quarters. Sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn recovered from his swoon, mounted, and the troops gathered around him. His nephew fled, but was overtaken and brought to him, and he killed him. After that he would not ride out.