تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.9.4

13.9.4

وعلم إبراهيم أنه إنما يريد قتله بسبب أبيه، وأنه لا تنفعه معذرة، وخاف أن يعذب فرأى الموت خيرا له، فأقر بذلك فأمر به فوسط، وترك هنالك، وعادتهم أنه متى قتل السلطان أحدا أقام مطروحا بموضع قتله ثلاثا فإذا كان بعد الثلاث أخذه طائفة من الكفار موكلون بذلك فحملوه إلى خندق خارج المدينة يطرحونه به، وهم يسكنون حول الخندق لئلا ياتي أهل المقتول فيرفعونه، وربما أعطى بعضهم لهؤلاء الكفار مالا فتجافوا له عن قتيله حتى يدفنه، وكذلك فعل بالشريف ابراهيم، رحمه الله تعالى.

Ibrāhīm knew that he wanted to kill him only because of his father, and that no excuse would help him; he feared being tortured and thought death better for him, so he confessed to it. The Sultan ordered him to be cut in two at the waist, and he was left there. Their custom is that whenever the Sultan kills someone, he remains lying at the place where he was killed for three days; after the three days a group of infidels appointed for this take him and carry him to a ditch outside the city, where they throw him. They live around the ditch so that the relatives of the slain man cannot come and remove him. Sometimes someone gives these infidels money and they look the other way about his slain kinsman so that he may bury him. That is what was done with the Sharīf Ibrāhīm, may God Most High have mercy on him.