تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.13.4

13.13.4

وأمر جلال الدين بضرب الرجل الذي قبض عليه، فاعترف بقضية شرف الملك، فأمر جلال الدين نائبه فركب في العسكر وقصدوا نحوهم فوجدوهم قد ركبوا فاقتفوا أثرهم فأدركوهم فرموا العسكر بالنشاب، ورمى طاهر بن شرف الملك نائب الأمير جلال الدين بسهم فأثبته في ذراعه وغلب عليهم فأتى بهم إلى جلال الدين فقيدهم وغل أيديهم وكتب إلى الوزير في شأنهم فأمره الوزير أن يبعثهم إلى الحضرة فبعثهم إليها، وسجنوا بها فمات طاهر في السجن، وامر السلطان أن يضرب شرف الملك مائة مقرعة في كل يوم فبقى على ذلك مدة، ثم عفا عنه وبعثه مع الأمير نظام الدين أمير نجلة إلى بلاد جنديري ، فانتهت حاله إلى أن كان يركب البقر، ولم يكن له فرس يركبه! وأقام على ذلك مدة، ثم وفد ذلك الأمير على السلطان وهو معه فجعله السلطان شاشنكير وهو الذي يقطع اللحم بين يدي السلطان ويمشي مع الطعام، ثم إنه بعد ذلك نوه به ورفع مقداره وانتهت حاله إلى أن مرض فزاره السلطان وأمر بوزنه بالذهب واعطاه ذلك، وقد قدمنا هذه الحكاية في السفر الأول ، وبعد ذلك زوجه بأخته وأعطاه بلاد جنديرى التي كان يركب بها البقر في خدمة الأمير نظام الدين، فسبحان مقلب القلوب ومحيل الأحوال.

Jalāl al-Dīn ordered the man who had been seized to be beaten, and he confessed the affair of Sharaf al-Mulk. Jalāl al-Dīn ordered his deputy, who rode out with the troops and made for them; they found that they had already mounted, so they followed their tracks and overtook them. They shot arrows at the troops, and Ṭāhir, son of Sharaf al-Mulk, shot an arrow at Amīr Jalāl al-Dīn's deputy and lodged it in his arm, but [the deputy] overpowered them and brought them to Jalāl al-Dīn, who fettered them, chained their hands and wrote to the vizier about them. The vizier ordered him to send them to the capital, so he sent them there, and they were imprisoned in it. Ṭāhir died in prison, and the Sultan ordered that Sharaf al-Mulk be given a hundred lashes with the whip every day; he remained so for some time. Then he pardoned him and sent him with Amīr Niẓām al-Dīn, Amīr Najla, to the land of Jandīrī, and his condition sank so low that he rode oxen, having no horse to ride! He remained so for some time; then that amīr came to the Sultan, with him in his company, and the Sultan made him shāshankīr, that is, the one who carves the meat before the Sultan and walks with the food. After that he distinguished him and raised his rank, until, when he fell ill, the Sultan visited him and ordered him to be weighed in gold and gave him that; we have already told this story in the first volume. After that he married him to his sister and gave him the land of Jandīrī, where he used to ride oxen in the service of Amīr Niẓām al-Dīn. Glory be to Him who turns hearts and transforms conditions.