تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.13.2

12.13.2

The vizier Khwāja Jahān learned of the Sultan's promise to appoint him to the vizierate, and he became jealous of it and was disturbed by it. Before that time the lands of Kanbāya and al-Juzarāt had been under the vizier's authority, and their people were attached to him, devoted to him and served him; most of them were infidels, and some were rebels who held out in the mountains. So the vizier secretly instigated them to attack the Malik al-Tujjār when he set out for the capital. When he set out with the treasure and the wealth, with Shihāb al-Dīn and his gift accompanying him, they halted one day in the forenoon as was their custom; the troops dispersed and most of them slept. Then the infidels attacked them in a great host, killed the Malik al-Tujjār, and plundered the wealth, the treasure, and the gift of