[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Travel and sea narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla) › [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt) › 12.20 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.20 English (machine translation) 12.20 - **Language:** English ### [12.20.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.20.1) Burhān al-Dīn was one of the leading preachers, very self-sacrificing and lavish with what he owned, so much so that he often took on debts and gave to people. News of him reached the sultan, who sent him forty thousand dīnārs and asked him to come to his capital. He accepted the dīnārs and paid his debt, but went off to the land of al-Khaṭā and refused to come ### [12.20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.20.2) to him, saying: "I will not go to a sultan before whom scholars stand." ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.12.20.1) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.20](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.20) · Pramāṇa