تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.35
English (machine translation) 12.35
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In the year [seven hundred and] forty-one the sultan ordered the abolition of the tolls throughout his lands, and that nothing be taken from the people except the zakāt and the tithe alone. He began to sit in person to hear complaints of wrongs every Monday and Thursday in an open square in front of the council hall. On that day no one stands before him except the Amīr Ḥājib, the Khāṣṣ Ḥājib, the Sayyid al-Ḥujjāb and the Sharaf al-Ḥujjāb, no others, and no one who wishes to complain is prevented from standing before him.
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He appointed four of the great amīrs to sit at the four gates of the council hall to receive petitions from the complainants, the fourth of them being his cousin Malik Fīrūz. If the one in charge of the first gate took the petition from
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the complainant, well and good; otherwise the second, third or fourth took it. If they did not take it from him, he went with it to Ṣadr al-Jahān, the qāḍī of the mamlūks; if he took it from him [well and good], otherwise he complained to the Sultan. If it was established to the Sultan that he had gone with it to one of them and he had not taken it from him, he punished him. Everything that was collected of petitions on the other days the Sultan would read through after the late evening prayer.
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- تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic