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# تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.47.1-11

تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار 13.47.1-11

- **Language:** Arabic

### [13.47.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.1)

وفي بعض تلك الأيام ركبت في جماعة من أصحابي ودخلنا بستانا نقيل فيه وذلك فصل القيظ، فسمعنا الصياح، فركبنا ولحقنا كفارا أغاروا على قرية من قرى الجلالي، فاتبعناهم فتفرقوا وتفرق أصحابنا في طلبهم، وانفردت في خمسة من أصحابي، فخرج علينا جملة من الفرسان والرجال من غيضة هنالك ففررنا منهم لكثرتهم واتبعني نحو عشرة منهم، ثم انقطعوا عني إلا ثلاثة منهم ولا طريق بين يدي، وتلك الأرض كثيرة الحجارة فنشبت يدا فرسي بين الحجارة، فنزلت عنه واقتلعت يده وعدت إلى ركوبه.

> On one of those days I rode out with a group of my companions and we entered a garden to take our midday rest there, for it was the season of intense heat. Then we heard shouting, so we mounted and caught up with some infidels who had raided one of the villages of al-Jalālī. We pursued them and they scattered, and our companions scattered in pursuit of them. I was left alone with five of my companions, when a body of horsemen and foot soldiers came out at us from a thicket there, and we fled from them because of their numbers. About ten of them followed me, then they fell away from me except for three of them, and there was no road ahead of me. That ground was very stony, and my horse's forelegs got stuck between the stones, so I dismounted, pulled its leg free, and mounted it again.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> When we perceived their strength we retreated, while they pursued us, and in this we persevered. I observed three of them coming after me, when I was left quite alone. It happened at the same time that the fore-feet of my horse had stuck fast between two stones, so that I was obliged to dismount and set him at liberty. I was now in a way that led into a valley between two hills, and here I lost sight of the infidels. I was so circumstanced, however, that I knew neither the country, nor the roads. I then set my horse at liberty to go where he would. While I was in a valley closely interwoven with trees, behold! a party of cavalry, about forty in number, rushed upon me and took me prisoner, before I was well aware of their being there. I was much afraid they would shoot me with their arrows. I alighted from my horse, therefore, and gave myself up as their prisoner. They then stripped me of all I had, bound me, and took me with them for two days, intending to kill me. Of their language I was quite ignorant: but God delivered me from them; for they left me, and I took my course I knew not whither. I was much afraid they would take it into their heads to kill me; I therefore hid myself in a forest thickly interwoven with trees and thorns, so much so, that a person wishing to hide himself could not be discovered. Whenever I ventured upon the roads, I found they always led, either to one of the villages of the infidels, or to some ruined village.  
> — Samuel Lee 1829, The Travels of Ibn Batūta

### [13.47.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.2)

والعادة بالهند أن يكون مع الانسان سيفان: أحدهما معلق بالسرج، ويسمى الركابي، والآخر في التركش، فسقط سيفي الركابي من غمده وكانت حليته ذهبا فنزلت فأخذته وتقلدته وركبت وهم في أثري، ثم وصلت إلى خندق عظيم فنزلت ودخلت في جوفه فكان آخر عهدي بهم.

> It is the custom in Hind for a man to carry two swords: one hung from the saddle, called the rikābī, and the other in the quiver. My rikābī sword fell from its scabbard, and its fittings were of gold, so I dismounted, picked it up, girded it on, and mounted again while they were on my track. Then I reached a great ditch, dismounted and went down into it, and that was the last I saw of them.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.3)

ثم خرجت إلى واد في وسط شعراء ملتفة في وسطها طريق فمشيت عليه ولا أعرف منتهاه فبينا أنا في ذلك خرج علي نحو أربعين رجلا من الكفار بأيديهم القسي فأحدقوا بي وخفت أن يرموني رمية رجل واحد إن فررت منهم، وكنت غير متدرع، فألقيت بنفسي إلى الأرض واستأسرت، وهم لا يقتلون من فعل ذلك، فأخذوني وسلبوني جميع ما علي، غير جبة وقميص وسروال ودخلوا بي إلى تلك الغابة فانتهوا بي إلى موضع جلوسهم منها على حوض ماء بين تلك الاشجار وأتوني بخبز ماش، وهو الجلبان، فأكلت منه وشربت من الماء.

> Then I came out into a valley in the middle of a dense thicket of trees, with a path through its middle. I walked along it without knowing where it led. While I was doing so, about forty of the infidels came out at me with bows in their hands and surrounded me. I feared that if I fled from them they would shoot at me all at once, and I was not wearing armour, so I threw myself to the ground and gave myself up as a prisoner, for they do not kill anyone who does that. They seized me and stripped me of everything I had on except a jubba, a shirt and trousers, and took me into that forest and brought me to the place where they sat, by a pool of water among those trees. They brought me bread made of māsh, that is, vetch, and I ate some of it and drank some of the water.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.4)

وكان معهم مسلمان كلماني بالفارسية، وسألاني عن شأني، فأخيرتهما ببعضه وكتمتهما أني من جهة السلطان، فقالا لي: لا بد أن يقتلك هؤلاء أو غيرهم، ولكن هذا مقدمهم وأشارا إلى رجل منهم، فكلمته بترجمة المسلمين وتلطفت له، فوكل بي ثلاثة منهم:

> There were two Muslims with them, who spoke to me in Persian and asked me about myself. I told them part of my story, and concealed from them that I came from the Sultan. They said to me: "These men or others are bound to kill you; but this is their leader," and they pointed to one of the men. So I spoke to him through the interpretation of the two Muslims and tried to win him over, and he put three of them in charge of me:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.5)

أحدهم شيخ ومعه ابنه، والآخر أسود خبيث، وكلمني أولئك الثلاثة، ففهمت منهم أنهم أمروا بقتلي، فاحتملوني عشي النهار إلى كهف، وسلط الله على الأسود منهم حمى مرعدة، فوضع رجليه علي ونام الشيخ وابنه! فلما أصبح تكلموا فيما بينهم وأشاروا إلي بالنزول معهم إلى الحوض وفهمت أنهم يريدون قتلي فكلمت الشيخ وتلطفت إليه فرق لي، وقطعت كمي قميصي وأعطيته أياهما لكي لا يأخذه أصحابه في إن فررت.

> one of them an old man with his son, and the other a wicked black man. Those three spoke to me, and I understood from them that they had been ordered to kill me. In the evening they carried me off to a cave. God afflicted the black man among them with a shivering fever, and he put his feet on me, and the old man and his son slept! When morning came they spoke among themselves and signalled to me to go down with them to the pool, and I understood that they meant to kill me. So I spoke to the old man and tried to win him over, and he took pity on me. I cut off the sleeves of my shirt and gave them to him, so that his companions would not hold him to account for me if I escaped.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.6](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.6)

ولما كان عند الظهر سمعنا كلاما عند الحوض فظنوا أنهم أصحابهم، فأشاروا إلي بالنزول معهم، فنزلنا ووجدنا قوما آخرين فأشاروا عليهم أن يذهبوا في صحبتهم فأبوا، وجلس ثلاثتهم أمامي وأنا مواجه لهم ووضعوا حبل قنب كان معهم بالأرض، وأنا أنظر إليهم، وأقول في نفسي: بهذا الحبل يربطونني عند القتل، وأقمت كذلك ساعة ثم جاء ثلاثة من أصحابهم الذين أخذوني فتكلموا معهم، وفهمت أنهم قالوا لهم: لأي شيء ما قتلتموه؟ فأشار الشيخ إلى الأسود كأنه اعتذر بمرضه! وكان أحد هؤلاء الثلاثة شابا حسن الوجه، فقال لي:

> Around noon we heard talking by the pool, and they thought it was their companions, so they signalled to me to go down with them. We went down and found some other people, and they urged them to go along with them, but they refused. The three of them sat down in front of me, with me facing them, and they laid on the ground a hemp rope they had with them. I watched them and said to myself: "With this rope they will tie me up when they kill me." I remained like that for an hour; then three of their companions, those who had captured me, came and spoke with them, and I understood that they were saying to them: "Why have you not killed him?" The old man pointed to the black man, as if excusing himself by his illness! One of these three was a young man with a handsome face, and he said to me:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.7](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.7)

أتريد أن أسرحك؟ فقلت: نعم، فقال: اذهب. فأخذت الجبة التي كانت علي فأعطيته إياها وأعطاني مقيرة بالية عنده، وأراني الطريق فذهبت وخفت أن يبدو لهم فيدركونني، فدخلت غيضة قصب واختفيت فيها، إلى أن غابت الشمس، ثم خرجت وسلكت الطريق التي أرانيها الشاب، فأفضت بي إلى ماء فشربت منه، وسرت إلى ثلث الليل فوصلت إلى جبل فنمت تحته فلما أصبحت سلكت الطريق فوصلت ضحى إلى جبل من الصخر عال فيه شجر أم غيلان والسدر، فكنت أجني النبق فأكله حتى أثر الشوك في ذراعي أثارا هي باقية به حتى الآن! ثم نزلت من ذلك الجبل إلى أرض مزدرعة قطنا وبها أشجار الخروع، وهنالك باين، والبائن عندهم: بئر متسعة جدا مطوية بالحجارة، لها درج ينزل عليها إلى ورد الماء، وبعضها يكون في وسطه وجوانبه القباب مر، الحجر والسقايف والمجالس، ويتفاخر ملوك البلاد وأمراؤها بعمارتها في الطرقات التي لا ماء بها، وسنذكر بعض ما رأيناه منها فيما بعد ، ولما وصلت إلى البائن شربت منه ووجدت عليه شيئا من عساليج الخردل قد سقطت

> "Do you want me to let you go?" I said: "Yes." He said: "Go." So I took the jubba I was wearing and gave it to him, and he gave me a worn-out tarred garment he had, and showed me the way. I went off, fearing that they might change their minds and catch up with me, so I went into a reed thicket and hid in it until the sun set. Then I came out and took the road the young man had shown me, and it led me to water, from which I drank. I walked until a third of the night had passed and reached a mountain, and slept at its foot. In the morning I took the road and by mid-morning reached a high rocky mountain on which grew acacia (umm ghaylān) and lote trees. I kept picking the lote fruit and eating it, until the thorns left marks on my arms that remain there to this day! Then I came down from that mountain to land sown with cotton, with castor-oil trees on it, and there was a bāʾin there. The bāʾin, among them, is a very wide well lined with stones, with steps by which one descends to the water. Some of them have domes, arcades and sitting places of stone in the middle and on the sides. The kings and amīrs of the country vie with one another in building them along roads where there is no water, and we shall mention later some of those we saw. When I reached the bāʾin I drank from it and found there some mustard shoots that had fallen  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.8](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.8)

لمن غسلها فأكلت منها وادخرت عليه شيئا من عساليج الخردل قد سقطت لمن غسلها فأكلت منها وادخرت باقيها، ونمت تحت شجرة خروع.

> from someone who had washed them. I ate some of them and kept \[some\] mustard shoots that had fallen from someone who had washed them; I ate some of them and kept the rest, and slept under a castor-oil tree.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.9](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.9)

فبينما أنا كذلك إذ ورد البائن نحو أربعين فارسا مدرعين، فدخل بعضهم إلى المزرعة، ثم ذهبوا، وطمس الله أبصارهم دوني، ثم جاء بعدهم نحو خمسين في السلاح ونزلوا إلى البائن، وأتى أحدهم إلى شجرة إزاء الشجرة التي كنت تحتها، فلم يشعر بي.

> While I was so, about forty armoured horsemen came to the bāʾin. Some of them went into the sown field, then they left, and God blinded their eyes to me. After them came about fifty men under arms, who went down to the bāʾin, and one of them came to a tree opposite the tree I was under, but he did not notice me.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.10](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.10)

ودخلت إذ ذاك في مزرعة القطن وأقمت بها بقية نهاري، وأقاموا على البائن يغسلون ثيابهم ويلعبون، فلما كان الليل هدأت أصواتهم، فعلمت أنهم قد مروا أو ناموا فخرجت حينئذ واتبعت أثر الخيل، والليل مقمر، وسرت حتى انتهيت إلى باين آخر، عليه قبة فنزلت إليه وشربت من مائه وأكلت من عساليج الخردل التي كانت عندي، ودخلت القبة فوجدتها مملوءة بالعشب مما يجمعه الطير فنمت بها، وكنت أحس حركة حيوان في تلك العشب أظنه حية فلا أبالي بها لما بي من الجهد، فلما أصبحت سلكت طريقا واسعة تفضي إلى قرية خربة وسلكت سواها فكانت كمثلها وأقمت كذلك أياما، وفي بعضها وصلت إلى أشجار ملتفة بينها حوض ماء وداخلها شبه بيت وعلى جوانب الحوض نبات الأرض كالنجيل. وغيره فأردت أن أقعد هنالك حتى يبعث الله من يوصلني إلى العمارة.

> At that point I went into the cotton field and stayed there the rest of the day, while they stayed at the bāʾin washing their clothes and amusing themselves. When night came their voices fell silent, and I knew that they had moved on or gone to sleep. So I came out then and followed the tracks of the horses, the night being moonlit, and walked until I came to another bāʾin with a dome over it. I went down into it, drank of its water and ate some of the mustard shoots I had with me, and went into the dome, which I found full of grass such as birds collect, and I slept there. I could feel the movement of some creature in that grass, which I took to be a snake, but I paid it no heed because of my exhaustion. In the morning I took a wide road leading to a ruined village, and took another, and it was the same; and I went on like that for some days. On one of them I reached a thick clump of trees with a pool of water among them, and inside it something like a house, and on the banks of the pool plants of the ground like couch grass and others. I decided to stay there until God should send someone to bring me to inhabited land.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [13.47.11](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.11)

ثم إني وجدت يسير قوة فنهضت على طريق وجدت بها أثر البقر ووجدت ثورا عليه بردعة ومنجل، فإذا تلك الطريق تفضي إلى قرى الكفار فاتبعت طريقا أخرى فأفضت بي إلى قرية خربة ورأيت بها أسودين عريانين فخفتهما وأقمت تحت أشجار هنالك فلما كان الليل دخلت القرية ووجدت دارا في بيت من بيوتها شبه خابية كبيرة يصنعونها لاختزان الزرع، وفي أسفلها نقب يسع منه الرجل فدخلتها ووجدت داخلها مفروشا بالتبن وفيه حجر جعلت رأسي عليه ونمت.

> Then I found a little strength and got up and set off on a road on which I found the tracks of cattle, and I found a bull with a pack-saddle and a sickle on it. That road turned out to lead to the villages of the infidels, so I followed another road, which brought me to a ruined village, where I saw two naked black men. I was afraid of them and stayed under some trees there. When night came I entered the village and found, in a room of one of its houses, something like a large jar of the kind they make for storing grain, with a hole at its bottom through which a man can pass. I went into it and found the inside spread with straw, and in it was a stone; I laid my head on it and slept.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (2)

- [The Travels of Ibn Batūta](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.5) — Samuel Lee 1829, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.47.1) — English, machine translation

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