تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.16.5

11.16.5

Shaykh Rukn al-Dīn told me that he was with the sultan that day, and with them was the sultan's favourite son Maḥmūd. Then Muḥammad, the sultan's son, came and said to the shaykh: "Khwand! It is the time of the afternoon prayer; go down and pray!" The shaykh told me: "So I went down, and the elephants were brought from one side, as they had planned. When they trod on it, the kushk fell upon the sultan and his son Maḥmūd." The shaykh said: "I heard the uproar and went back without having prayed, and found the kushk had fallen." His son ordered axes and spades to be brought to dig for him, but signalled for delay, so they were not brought until the sun had set. Then they dug and found the sultan bent over his son to shield him from death! Some claimed he was brought out dead, and others claimed he was brought out alive and then finished off. He was carried by night to the tomb he had built outside the city named after him, Tughluq Ābād, and buried there.