تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.9.4

11.9.4

وكانت زوجة علاء الدين تؤذيه فلا يزال يشكوها إلى عمه السلطان جلال الدين حتى وقعت الوحشة بينهما بسببها، وكان علاء الدين شهما شجاعا مظفرا منصورا، وحب الملك ثابت في نفسه إلا أنه لم يكن له مال إلا ما يستفيده بسيفه من غنائم الكفار، فاتفق أنه ذهب مرة إلى الغزو ببلاد الدويقير ، وتسمى بلاد الكتكة أيضا، وسنذكرها، وهي كرسي بلاد المالوة والمرهتة ، وكان سلطانها أكبر سلاطين الكفار فعثرت بعلاء الدين في تلك الغزوة دابة له عند حجر، فسمع له طنينا، فأمر بالحفر هنالك فوجد تحته كنزا عظيما ،

ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn's wife used to mistreat him, and he kept complaining of her to his uncle Sultan Jalāl al-Dīn until estrangement arose between them on her account. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn was spirited, brave, victorious and triumphant, and the love of kingship was fixed in his soul, but he had no wealth except what he gained by his sword from the spoils of the infidels. It happened that he once went raiding in the land of al-Duwayqīr, which is also called the land of al-Katka — we shall describe it — and which is the capital of the lands of al-Mālwa and al-Marhata. Its sultan was the greatest of the sultans of the infidels. During that raid a mount of ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn's stumbled against a stone, and he heard a ringing sound from it; he ordered digging there and found beneath it a great treasure,