تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.16.5

11.16.5

وحدثني الشيخ ركن الدين أنه كان يومئذ مع السلطان ومعهما ولد السلطان المؤثر لديه محمود فجاء محمد ابن السلطان، فقال للشيخ: ياخوند! هذا وقت العصر، انزل فصل! قال لي الشيخ: فنزلت وأتى بالأفيال من جهة واحدة حسبما دبروه، فلما وطئتها سقط الكشك على السلطان وولده محمود قال الشيخ فسمعت الضجة فعدت ولم اصل فوجدت الكشك قد سقط، فأمر ابنه أن يوتي بالفؤس والمساحي للحفر عنه، وأشار بالإبطاء، فلم يؤت بهما إلا وقد غربت الشمس فحفروا، ووجدوا السلطان قد حنا ظهره على ولده ليقيه الموت! فزعم بعضهم أنه أخرج ميتا وزعم بعضهم أنه أخرج حيا، فأجهز عليه، وحمل ليلا إلى مقبرته التي بناها بخارج البلدة المسماة باسمه تغلق أباد فدفن بها.

Shaykh Rukn al-Dīn told me that he was with the sultan that day, and with them was the sultan's favourite son Maḥmūd. Then Muḥammad, the sultan's son, came and said to the shaykh: "Khwand! It is the time of the afternoon prayer; go down and pray!" The shaykh told me: "So I went down, and the elephants were brought from one side, as they had planned. When they trod on it, the kushk fell upon the sultan and his son Maḥmūd." The shaykh said: "I heard the uproar and went back without having prayed, and found the kushk had fallen." His son ordered axes and spades to be brought to dig for him, but signalled for delay, so they were not brought until the sun had set. Then they dug and found the sultan bent over his son to shield him from death! Some claimed he was brought out dead, and others claimed he was brought out alive and then finished off. He was carried by night to the tomb he had built outside the city named after him, Tughluq Ābād, and buried there.