[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) › 12.40.3 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.40.3 English (machine translation) 12.40.3 - **Language:** English ### [12.40.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.40.3) Shihāb al-Dīn was exiled to Dawlat Ābād, where he stayed seven years. Then he sent for him, honoured and esteemed him, and put him in charge of the Dīwān al-Mustakhraj, the department of the arrears of officials, which it extracts from them by beating and torment. Then he increased his honour and ordered the amīrs to come and greet him and to obey his words, and there was no one in the Sultan's palace above him. When the Sultan moved to reside on the river Gang and built there the palace known as Sarg Duwār, meaning 'like Paradise', and ordered the people to build there, Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn asked him for permission to stay in the capital. He permitted him \[to go\] to a stretch of waste land six miles from Dihlī, where he dug a large cave, in the interior of which he made rooms, storerooms, an oven and a bath, and he brought water from the river Jūn. He cultivated that land and amassed much wealth from its produce, because those were years of drought. He stayed there two and a half years, the period of the Sultan's absence. - [Previous: 12.40.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.40.2) - [Next: 12.40.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.40.4) - [Up: 12.40](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.40) ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.12.40.3) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.40.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.12.40.3) · Pramāṇa