تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.15
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11.15.1
When Tughluq had settled in the seat of kingship, he sent his son Muḥammad to conquer the land of Tiling — its spelling is with kasra on the dotted tāʾ and the lām, sukūn on the nūn, and a hard kāf — which lies three months' journey from the city of Dihlī. He sent with him a great army that included the leading amīrs, such as Malik Tamūr, with fatḥa on the dotted tāʾ and ḍamma on the mīm, ending in rāʾ; Malik Tigīn, with kasra on the dotted tāʾ and the kāf, ending in nūn; Malik Kāfūr the muhrdār, with ḍamma on the mīm; Malik Bayram, with the single-dotted bāʾ with fatḥa, the yāʾ (the last letter of the alphabet), and the rāʾ with fatḥa; and others. When he reached the land of Tiling he wished to rebel. He had a boon companion, one of the jurist-poets, known as ʿUbayd, and he ordered him to spread among the people that Sultan Tughluq had died, thinking that the people would hasten to swear allegiance to him
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once they heard it. But when he spread this among the people, the amīrs rejected it; each of them beat his drum and rose in revolt, so that not one remained with him. They wanted to kill him, but Malik Tamūr prevented them and stood in his defence, and he fled to his father with ten horsemen whom he called yārān-i muwāfiq, meaning "the agreeable companions". His father gave him money and troops and ordered him to return to Tiling, and he returned there. His father learned what he had intended, and he put the jurist ʿUbayd to death. He gave orders concerning Malik Kāfūr the muhrdār: a stake with a sharpened point was planted in the ground for him and driven into his neck until its tip came out of his side, with his head downward, and he was left in that state. The remaining amīrs fled to Sultan Shams al-Dīn, son of Sultan Nāṣir al-Dīn, son of Sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn Balban, and settled with him.
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- تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic