تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.43.2

12.43.2

and going at his hospice. Shaykh Rukn al-Dīn died and bequeathed his place in the hospice to his grandson Shaykh Hūd, but the son of Shaykh Rukn al-Dīn's brother disputed this with him, saying: "I have the better right to my uncle's inheritance." They came before the Sultan while he was at Dawlat Ābād, which is eighty days from Multān, and the Sultan gave the headship to Hūd as the shaykh had bequeathed to him. He was a man of mature age, while the shaykh's nephew was a youth. The Sultan honoured him and ordered that he be entertained as a guest at every halt he stopped at, that the people of every town he passed through on the way to Multān should come out to meet him, and that a banquet be prepared for him there.