تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.45: ذكر سبب بعث الهدية للصين وذكر من بعث معي وذكر الهدية.

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وكان ملك الصين قد بعث إلى السلطان مائة مملوك وجارية وخمسمائة ثوب من الكمخا منها مائة من التي تصنع بمدينة الزيتون، ومائة من التي تصنع بمدينة الخنسا، وخمسة أمنان من المسك، وخمسة أثواب مرصعة بالجوهر، وخمسة من التراكش مزركشة، وخمسة سيوف، وطلب من السلطان أن يأذن له في بناء بيت الأصنام الذي بناحية جبل قراجيل المتقدم ذكره، ويعرف الموضع الذي هو به بسمهل، بفتح السين المهمل وسكون الميم وفتح الهاء، وإليه يحج أهل الصين، وتغلب عليه جيش الإسلام بالهند فخربوه وسلبوه.

The king of al-Ṣīn had sent the Sultan one hundred mamlūks and slave-girls, five hundred robes of kamkhā silk, of which one hundred were of the kind made in the city of al-Zaytūn and one hundred of the kind made in the city of al-Khansā, five manns of musk, five robes studded with jewels, five embroidered quivers and five swords, and he asked the Sultan to permit him to build the idol-temple near the mountain of Qarājīl mentioned earlier. The place where it stands is known as Samhal, with a on the unpointed s, the m unvowelled and a on the h; the people of al-Ṣīn make pilgrimage to it. The army of Islam in Hind had taken it, destroyed it and plundered it.

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فلما وصلت هذه الهدية إلى السلطان كتب إليه بأن هذا المطلب لا يجوز في ملة الإسلام إسعافه، ولا يباح بناء كنيسة بأرض المسلمين إلا لمن يعطي الجزية، فإن رضيت بإعطائها أبحنا لك بناءه، والسلام على من اتبع الهدى. وكافأه عن هديته بخير منها، وذلك مائة فرس من الجياد مسرجة ملجمة، ومائة مملوك ومائة جارية، من كفار الهند مغنيات ورواقص، ومائة ثوب بيرمية، وهي من القطن ولا نظير لها في الحسن، قيمة الثوب منها مائة دينار ، ومائة شقة من ثياب الحرير المعروفة بالجز ، بضم الجيم وزاي، وهي التي يكون حرير إحداها مصبوغا بخمسة ألوان وأربعة، ومائة ثوب من الثياب المعروفة بالصلاحية، ومائة ثوب

When this gift reached the Sultan, he wrote to him that granting this request was not permissible in the religion of Islam, and that building a temple in the land of the Muslims is allowed only to one who pays the jizya: "If you agree to pay it, we will permit you to build it; and peace be upon whoever follows the guidance." He repaid his gift with a better one: one hundred thoroughbred horses, saddled and bridled; one hundred mamlūks and one hundred slave-girls from the infidels of Hind, singers and dancers; one hundred bayramī robes, which are of cotton and unequalled in beauty, each worth one hundred dinars; one hundred pieces of the silk cloth known as juzz, with u on the j and a z, in which the silk of each piece is dyed in five or four colours; one hundred robes of the cloth known as ṣalāḥiyya; one hundred robes

but if they chose to do this, their request would be complied with: for the place in which this idol-temple was situated had been conquered, and had, in consequence, become a district of the Mohammedans. The Emperor also sent presents much more valuable than those he had received, which were these following, namely: one hundred horses of the best breed saddled and bridled; one hundred Mamluks; one hundred Hindoo singing slave-girls; one hundred Bairami dresses, the value of each of which was a hundred dinars; one hundred silken dresses; five hundred saffron coloured dresses; one hundred pieces of the best cotton cloth; one thousand dresses of the various clothing of India; with numerous instruments of gold and silver, swords and quivers set with jewels, and ten robes of honour wrought with gold, of the Sultan’s own dresses, with various other articles. The Emperor appointed the Emir Zahir Oddin El Zanjani one of the Ulema, with El Fatl Kafur, with whom the present was entrusted, to accompany me. These were favourite officers with the Emperor. He also sent with us a thousand cavalry, who were to conduct us to the place at which we were to take shipping. The servants of the Emperor of China, who amounted to about one hundred, and with whom there was a great Emir, also returned with us. So we left the presence of the Emperor on the 17th day of the month Safar, in the year seven hundred and forty-three (A.D.

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احتفال بأمير مغولي في البلاط- تصوير جداري رسم يمثل الاحتفال بأحد السفراء- تصوير جداري بقاعة الأعمدة الأربعين

Celebration for a Mongol amīr at court – wall painting. Painting depicting the celebration of an ambassador – wall painting in the Hall of Forty Columns.

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من الشيرين باف ، ومائة ثوب من الشان باف ، وخمسمائة ثوب من المرعز، مائة منها سود، ومائة بيض، ومائة حمر، ومائة خضر، ومائة زرق، ومائة شقة من الكتان الرومي، ومائة فضلة من الملف، وسراجة وست من القباب، وأربع حسك من ذهب، وست حسك من فضة منيلة، وأربعة طسوت من الذهب ذات أباريق كمثلها، وستة طسوت من الفضة، وعشر خلع من ثياب السلطان مزركشة، وعشر شواش من لباسه، إحداها مرصعة بالجوهر وعشرة تراكش مزركشة، وأحدها مرصع بالجوهر، وعشرة من السيوف، أحدها مرصع الغمد بالجوهر، ودشت بان وهو قفاز مرصع بالجوهر، وخمسة عشر من الفتيان.

of shīrīnbāf, one hundred robes of shānbāf, five hundred robes of murʿiz wool, one hundred of them black, one hundred white, one hundred red, one hundred green and one hundred blue; one hundred pieces of Rūmī linen; one hundred lengths of broadcloth; a large tent and six pavilions; four candlesticks of gold and six candlesticks of enamelled silver; four golden basins with matching ewers, and six silver basins; ten embroidered robes of honour from the Sultan's own garments; ten caps of his own wear, one of them studded with jewels; ten embroidered quivers, one of them studded with jewels; ten swords, one with its scabbard studded with jewels; a dastbān, which is a glove studded with jewels; and fifteen eunuchs.

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وعين السلطان للسفر معي بهذه الهدية الأمير ظهير الدين الزنجاني ، وهو من فضلاء أهل العلم، والفتى كافور الشربدار، وإليه سلمت الهدية، وبعث معنا الأمير محمد الهروي في ألف فارس ليوصلنا إلى الموضع الذي نركب منه البحر، وتوجه صحبتنا أرسال ملك الصين، وهم خمسة عشر رجلا يسمى كبيرهم ترسي وخدامهم نحو مائة رجل وانفصلنا في جمع كبير ومحلة عظيمة، وأمر لنا السلطان بالضيافة مدة سفرنا ببلاده.

The Sultan appointed to travel with me with this gift the amīr Ẓahīr al-Dīn al-Zanjānī, one of the most eminent men of learning, and the eunuch Kāfūr the sharbdār, to whom the gift was entrusted. He sent with us the amīr Muḥammad al-Harawī with a thousand horsemen to escort us to the place where we would take ship. The envoys of the king of al-Ṣīn travelled in our company, fifteen men whose chief was called Tursī, with about a hundred servants. We set out in a large company and a great camp, and the Sultan ordered that we be given hospitality for the duration of our journey through his lands.

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وكان سفرنا في السابع عشر لشهر صفر سنة ثلاث وأربعين وهو اليوم الذي اختاروه للسفر لأنهم يختارون للسفر من أيام الشهر ثانيه أو سابعه أو الثاني عشر أو السابع عشر أو الثاني والعشرين أو السابع والعشرين! فكان نزولنا في أول مرحلة بمنزل تلبت ، على مسافة فرسخين وثلث من حضرة دهلي، ورحلنا منه إلى منزل أو، ورحلنا منه

Our departure was on the seventeenth of the month of Ṣafar in the year [seven hundred and] forty-three, the day they had chosen for travel, for they choose for travel the second, seventh, twelfth, seventeenth, twenty-second or twenty-seventh of the month. Our first halt was at the station of Tilbat, two and a third farsakhs from the capital Dihlī. From there we travelled to the station of Aw, and from there

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إلى منزل هيلو ، ورحلنا منه إلى مدينة بيانة ، وضبط اسمها بفتح الباء الموحدة وفتح الياء آخر الحروف مع تخفيفها وفتح النون، مدينة كبيرة حسنة البناء مليحة الأسواق.

to the station of Hīlū, and from there to the city of Bayāna — its name is spelt with a on the one-dotted b, a on the y (the last letter), without doubling, and a on the n — a large, well-built city with fine markets.

1342), and, after a few days, arrived at the city of Biana, which is large. We next arrived at Kul, which is a beautiful city, the greatest part of the trees of which are vines. When we had arrived here, we were informed that the infidel Hindoos had besieged the city El Jalali, which is seven days from Kul. The intention of these infidels was, to destroy the inhabitants; and this they nearly effected. We made such a vigorous attack upon them, however, that not one of them was left alive. But many of our companions suffered martyrdom in the onset, and among them was El Fati Kafur, the person to whom the presents had been confided. We immediately transmitted an account of this affair to the Emperor, and waited for his answer. During this interval, whenever any of the infidel Hindoos made an attack on the places in the neighbourhood of El Jalali, either all or a part of us, gave assistance to the Moslems. Upon a certain day, however, I turned into a garden just without the city of Kul, when the heat of the sun was excessive: and while we were in the garden, some one cried out, that the Hindoos were making an attack upon one of the villages: I accordingly rode off with some of my companions to their assistance. When the infidels saw this they fled; but the Moslems were so scattered in pursuing them, that myself and only five others were left. Some of their people saw this, and the consequence was, a considerable number of cavalry made an attack upon us.

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ومسجدها الجامع من أبدع المساجد وحيطانه وسقفه حجارة، والأمير بها مظفر ابن الداية، وأمه هي داية السلطان، وكان بها قبله الملك مجير بن أبي الرجاء أحد كبار الملوك، وقد تقدم ذكره ، وهو ينتسب في قريش وفيه تجبر، وله ظلم كثير قتل من اهل هذه المدينة جملة، ومثل بكثير منهم، ولقد رأيت من أهلها رجلا حسن الهيئة قاعدا في أسطوان منزله وهو مقطوع اليدين والرجلين.

Its congregational mosque is one of the most splendid mosques, its walls and roof of stone. The amīr there is Muẓaffar Ibn al-Dāya, whose mother was the Sultan's wet-nurse. Before him it was held by Malik Mujīr ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ, one of the great maliks, mentioned earlier, who claims descent from Quraysh. He was overbearing and very oppressive; he killed a number of the people of this city and mutilated many of them. I saw one of its people, a man of fine appearance, sitting in the portico of his house with both hands and feet cut off.

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وقدم السلطان مرة على هذه المدينة فتشكى الناس من الملك مجير المذكور فأمر السلطان بالقبض عليه وجعلت في عنقه الجامعة، وكان يقعد بالديوان بين يدي الوزير، وأهل البلد يكتبون عليه المظالم، فأمره السلطان بإرضائهم فأرضاهم بالأموال ثم قتله بعد ذلك.

The Sultan once came to this city, and the people complained of this Malik Mujīr. The Sultan ordered him arrested, and an iron collar was put on his neck. He used to sit in the dīwān before the vizier while the people of the town wrote out their grievances against him. The Sultan ordered him to satisfy them, and he satisfied them with money; afterwards he had him killed.

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ومن كبار أهل هذه المدينة الامام العالم عز الدين الزبيري من ذرية الزبير بن العوام رضي الله عنه، أحد كبار الفقهاء الصلحاء، لقيته بكاليور عند الملك عز الدين البنتاني المعروف بأعظم ملك.

Among the great men of this city is the imām and scholar ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Zubayrī, of the descendants of al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, may God be pleased with him, one of the great and pious jurists. I met him at Kālyūr with Malik ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Bantānī, known as Aʿẓam Malik.

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ثم رحلنا من بيانة فوصلنا إلى مدينة كول، وضبط اسمها بضم الكاف، مدينة حسنة ذات بساتين وأكثر أشجارها العنبا، ونزلنا بخارجها في بسيط أفيح، ولقينا بها الشيخ الصالح العابد شمس الدين المعروف بابن تاج العارفين، وهو مكفوف البصر معمر، وبعد ذلك سجنه السلطان ومات في سجنه، وقد ذكرنا حديثه .

Then we travelled from Bayāna and reached the city of Kūl — its name is spelt with u on the k — a fine city with orchards, most of whose trees are mango. We camped outside it on a wide plain. There we met the pious, devout shaykh Shams al-Dīn, known as Ibn Tāj al-ʿĀrifīn, who was blind and very aged. Afterwards the Sultan imprisoned him and he died in prison; we have already told his story.