تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.9.5

11.9.5

which he distributed among his companions. He reached al-Duwayqīr, and its sultan submitted to him in obedience and gave him possession of the city without a battle, and presented him with great gifts. He then returned to the city of Karā, but sent his uncle nothing of the spoils. People incited his uncle against him, and he summoned him, but he refused to come to him. Sultan Jalāl al-Dīn said: "I will go to him myself and bring him, for he is as my son." So he set out with his troops and pressed on stage after stage until he encamped on the bank at the city of Karā, where Sultan Muʿizz al-Dīn had encamped when he went out to meet his father Nāṣir al-Dīn. He took to the river in order to reach his nephew, and his nephew likewise boarded a second boat, intending to assassinate him, and said to his companions: "When I embrace him, kill him." When they met in the middle of the river, his nephew embraced him, and his companions killed him as he had instructed them, and he took possession of his kingdom and his troops.