[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) › 13.114.4 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.114.4 English (machine translation) 13.114.4 - **Language:** English ### [13.114.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.4) A long time afterwards it happened that I entered China and reached the city of al-Khansā. My companions became separated from me because of the great crowds, and I was wearing the farajiyya. While I was in one of the streets, there was the vizier in a great procession; his eye fell on me and he summoned me, took my hand, asked me about my arrival and did not leave me until I had reached the sultan's palace with him. I wanted to take my leave, but he prevented me and brought me in to the sultan, who asked me about the sultans of Islam, and I answered him. He looked at the farajiyya and admired it, and the vizier said to me: "Take it off!" I could not do otherwise, so he took it and ordered for me ten robes of honour, an equipped horse and money for expenses. I was upset by this; then I remembered the shaykh's words, that an infidel sultan would take it, and I was greatly astonished at this. The following year I entered the palace of the king of China at Khān Bāliq and went to the hospice of Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn al-Ṣāgharjī. I found him reading, wearing that very farajiyya. I was astonished at this and turned it over in my hand. He said to me: "Why do you turn it over when you know it?" I said to him: "Yes, it is the one the sultan of al-Khansā took from me." He said to me: "This farajiyya was made for me by my brother Jalāl al-Dīn, and he wrote to me that the farajiyya would reach me by the hand of so-and-so." Then he brought out the letter for me; I read it and marvelled at the certainty of the shaykh's knowledge, and I told him the beginning of the story. He said to me: "My brother Jalāl al-Dīn is greater than all that; he has power to act in the created world, and he has passed into God's mercy." Then he said to me: "I have heard that he used to pray the dawn prayer every day in Mecca and that he made the pilgrimage every year, because he would vanish from people on the two days of ʿArafa and the Feast, and no one knew where he went." - [Previous: 13.114.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.3) - [Next: 13.114.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.5) - [Up: 13.114](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114) ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.114.4) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.4) · Pramāṇa