تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.37.4

13.37.4

وكانت قد نشأت بين أمير هذه البلاد شمس الدين البذخشاني وبين واليها عزيز الخمار منازعة وجاء شمس الدين لقتاله، فامتنع منه بداره وبلغت شكاية أحدهما الوزير بدهلي، فبعث إلي الوزير وإلى الملك شاه أمير المماليك بأمروها، وهم أربعة آلاف مملوك للسلطان، وإلى شهاب الدين الرومي أن ننظر في قضيتهما، فمن كان على الباطل بعثناه مثقفا إلى الحضرة، فاجتمعوا جميعا بمنزلي وادعى عزيز على شمس الدين دعاوي منها أن خديما له يعرف بالرضى الملتاني نزل بدار خازن عزيز المذكور، فشرب بها الخمر وسرق خمسة آلاف دينار من المال الذي عند الخازن، فاستفهمت الرضى عن ذلك، فقال لي: ما شربت الخمر منذ خروجي من ملتان، وذلك ثمانية اعوام، فقلت له: أو شربتها بملتان؟ قال نعم! فأمرت بجلده ثمانين وسجنته بسبب الدعوى للوث ظهر عليه.

A dispute had arisen between the amīr of this region, Shams al-Dīn al-Badhakhshānī, and its governor ʿAzīz al-Khammār, and Shams al-Dīn came to fight him, but he shut himself up in his house against him. The complaint of one of them reached the vizier in Dihlī, and the vizier wrote to me, to Malik Shāh, commander of the mamlūks at Amrūhā—they being four thousand mamlūks of the Sultan—and to Shihāb al-Dīn al-Rūmī, that we should look into their case and send whichever was in the wrong in fetters to the capital. They all met at my lodging, and ʿAzīz brought several charges against Shams al-Dīn, among them that a servant of his known as al-Riḍā al-Multānī had lodged in the house of the said ʿAzīz's treasurer, drunk wine there and stolen five thousand dinars of the money held by the treasurer. I questioned al-Riḍā about this, and he said to me: "I have not drunk wine since I left Multān, and that is eight years ago." I said to him: "So you drank it in Multān?" He said: "Yes!" So I ordered him flogged eighty lashes and imprisoned him on account of the charge, because of suspicious evidence that appeared against him.