تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.106.5

13.106.5

وكنت أرى بمشور السلطان حين مات، المئين من الخدم اللاتي أوتى بهن لدق الأرز المعمول منه الطعام لغير السلطان وهن مريضات قد طرحن انفسهن في الشمس ولما دخل السلطان مترة وجد أمه وامرأته وولده مرضى فأقام بالمدينة ثلاثة أيام، ثم خرج إلى نهر على فرسخ منها كانت عليه كنيسة للكفار وخرجت إليه في يوم خميس فأمر بإنزالي إلى جانب القاضي فلما ضربت لي الأخبية رأيت الناس يسرعون ويموج بعضهم في بعض، فمن قائل: إن السلطان مات ومن قائل: إن ولده هو الميت، ثم تحققنا ذلك، فكان

At the time [the sultan] died I used to see in the sultan's audience hall hundreds of the servant-women who had been brought to pound the rice from which food was prepared for those other than the sultan; they were sick and had thrown themselves down in the sun. When the sultan entered Mutra he found his mother, his wife and his son ill. He stayed in the city three days and then went out to a river a farsakh away, on which there was a temple of the infidels. I went out to him on a Thursday, and he ordered that I be lodged beside the qāḍī. When my tents had been pitched I saw people hurrying and surging about, some saying that the sultan had died and others that it was his son who had died. Then we ascertained the matter, and it was