تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.40.1

12.40.1

Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn, son of Shaykh al-Jām of Khurāsān, to whose grandfather the city of al-Jām in Khurāsān is attributed as we have related, was one of the great, pious and virtuous shaykhs. He used to fast continuously for fourteen days. The sultans Quṭb al-Dīn and Tughluq honoured him, visited him and sought his blessing. When Sultan Muḥammad came to the throne he wished to employ the shaykh in some service of his, for his custom was to employ the jurists and the pious, arguing that the first generation, may God be pleased with them, employed only people of learning and piety. Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn refused the service, and the Sultan addressed him about it face to face in his public audience,