تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.12.2

11.12.2

للسلطان وزاوية للوارد والصادر. فلا يفتقر الفقير إلى حمل زاد في ذلك الطريق! ولما خرج السلطان قطب الدين في هذه الحركة اتفق بعض الأمراء على الخلاف عليه وتولية ولد أخيه خضر خان المسجون ، وسنه نحو عشرة أعوام، وكان مع السلطان، فبلغ السلطان ذلك، فأخذ ابن أخيه المذكور، وأمسك برجليه، وضرب برأسه إلى الحجارة حتى نثر دماغه، وبعث أحد الأمراء ويسمى ملك شاه إلى كاليور حيث أبو هذا الولد وأعمامه وأمره بقتلهم جميعا! فحدثني القاضي زين الدين مبارك قاضي هذا الحصن، قال: قدم علينا ملك شاه ضحوة يوم وكنت عند خضر خان بمحبسه، فلما سمع بقدومه خاف وتغير لونه، ودخل عليه الأمير فقال له: فيما جئت؟ قال: في حاجة خوند عالم، فقال له: نفسي سالمة؟ فقال: نعم، وخرج عنه واستحضر الكتوال، وهو صاحب الحصن والمفردين وهم الزماميون، وكانوا ثلاثمائة رجل وبعث عني وعن العدول واستظهر بأمر السلطان فقرأوه وأتوا إلى شهاب الدين المخلوع فضربوا عنقه وهو متثبت غير جزع، ثم ضربوا عنق أبي بكر خان وشادي خان، ولما أتوا ليضربوا عنق خضر خان فزع وذهل، وكانت أمه معه فسدوا الباب دونها وقتلوه، وسحبوهم جميعا في حفرة دون تكفين ولا غسل، وأخرجوا بعد سنين فدفنوا بمقابر آبائهم، وعاشت أم خضر خان مدة ورأيتها بمكة سنة ثمان وعشرين.

for the sultan and a hospice for those coming and going, so that the poor man need not carry provisions on that road! When Sultan Quṭb al-Dīn set out on this expedition, some of the amīrs agreed to rebel against him and to set up the son of his brother Khiḍr Khān, the imprisoned one; the boy was about ten years old and was with the sultan. News of this reached the sultan, so he took this nephew of his, seized him by the legs and dashed his head against the stones until his brains were scattered, and he sent one of the amīrs, called Malik Shāh, to Kālyūr, where the boy's father and uncles were, and ordered him to kill them all! The qāḍī Zayn al-Dīn Mubārak, qāḍī of this fortress, told me: "Malik Shāh came to us in the forenoon of a day when I was with Khiḍr Khān in his prison. When he heard of his arrival he was afraid and changed colour. The amīr came in to him, and he said to him, 'What have you come for?' He said, 'On the business of Khwand ʿĀlam.' He said to him, 'Is my life safe?' He said, 'Yes,' and went out from him. He summoned the kotwāl, who is the commander of the fortress, and the mufradūn, who are the zimāmiyyūn, three hundred men, and sent for me and for the notaries, and produced the sultan's order. They read it, then went to Shihāb al-Dīn the deposed and struck off his head, and he was steadfast and not fearful. Then they struck off the heads of Abū Bakr Khān and Shādī Khān. When they came to strike off the head of Khiḍr Khān he was terrified and distraught; his mother was with him, so they shut the door on her and killed him. They dragged them all into a pit without shrouding or washing." Years later they were taken out and buried in the tombs of their fathers. Khiḍr Khān's mother lived on for a time, and I saw her in Mecca in the year [seven hundred and] twenty-eight.