تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.11.11

13.11.11

and they spent that night in readiness. On the third day news arrived that the rebel ʿAyn al-Mulk had crossed the river. The Sultan was alarmed at this and suspected that he had done it only after corresponding with the amīrs who remained with the Sultan. So he at once ordered the thoroughbred horses to be distributed among his close companions, and he sent me a share of them. I had a companion named Amīr Amīrān al-Kirmānī, one of the brave; I gave him one of them, a grey horse, and when he spurred it, it bolted with him, he could not hold it, and it threw him from its back and he died, God Most High have mercy on him.