تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.107.2

13.107.2

When he received the oath of allegiance the poets praised him and he rewarded them generously. The first to rise and recite was the qāḍī Ṣadr al-Zamān, to whom he gave five hundred dinars and a robe of honour; then the vizier known as al-Qāḍī, to whom he gave two thousand dinars in dirhams; and he gave me three hundred dinars and a robe of honour. He distributed alms among the poor and the needy. When the preacher delivered the first khuṭba in his name, dinars and dirhams were scattered over him from gold and silver trays. The mourning for Sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn was held: every day they completed a recitation of the Qurʾān at his tomb, then the reciters of the tenths recited, then food was brought and the people ate, and then dirhams were given to each person according to his rank. They kept this up for forty days, and thereafter they do the same on the anniversary of his death every year.