تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.2.3

10.2.3

We travelled two days from the river of Sind and reached the city of Janānī — its name is spelt with a over the j and the first n and i under the second — a large, fine city on the bank of the river of Sind, with handsome markets. Its inhabitants are a people called the Sāmira, who settled it long ago; their forefathers established themselves there when it was conquered in the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf, as the historians have recorded concerning the conquest of Sind. The shaykh, imam, learned scholar who acts on his learning, ascetic and devout Rukn al-Dīn, son of the shaykh, jurist and righteous man Shams al-Dīn, son of the shaykh, imam, devout and ascetic Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ al-Qurashī — he is one of the three whom the shaykh, the righteous saint Burhān al-Dīn al-Aʿraj, told me in the city of Alexandria I would meet on my travels, and I did meet them, praise be to God — told me that his remote ancestor was called Muḥammad b. Qāsim al-Qurashī, that he took part in the conquest of Sind in the army that al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf sent for that purpose during his governorship of Iraq, and that he settled there and his descendants multiplied.