[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) › 13.26 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.26 English (machine translation) 13.26 - **Language:** English ### [13.26.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.26.1) On the fourth of Shawwāl the Sultan halted at a palace called Tilbat — with i under the first dotted t, no vowel on the l, a over the single-dotted b, then a t like the first — which is seven miles from the capital. The vizier ordered us to go out to him, and we went out, each person with a gift of horses, camels, Khurāsānī fruits, Egyptian swords, mamlūks, and sheep brought from the land of the Turks. We reached the gate of the palace, where all the newcomers had gathered, and they went in to the Sultan according to their ranks, and he bestowed on them linen garments embroidered with gold. ### [13.26.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.26.2) When my turn came I went in and found the Sultan seated on a chair. I took him for one of the chamberlains until I saw with him the Malik al-Nudamāʾ Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Kāfī al-Harawī, whom I had come to know during the Sultan's absence. The chamberlain made obeisance and I made obeisance; then the Amīr Ḥājib, the Sultan's cousin named Fīrūz, received me, and I made obeisance a second time following his obeisance. Then the Malik al-Nudamāʾ said to me: "Bismillāh, Mawlānā Badr al-Dīn" — in the land of Hind they called me Badr al-Dīn, and everyone who belongs to the people of learning is called simply Mawlānā. I drew near the Sultan until he took my hand and shook it, and he kept hold of my hand and began speaking to me in the kindest way, saying to me in the ### [13.26.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.26.3) Persian language: "Blessing has descended; your coming is blessed; set your mind at rest. I shall show you such favours and grant you such bounties that the people of your country will hear of it and come to you." Then he asked me about my country, and I said to him: "The land of the Maghrib." He said to me: "The land of ʿAbd al-Muʾmin?" I said to him: "Yes." Every time he said a kind word to me I kissed his hand, until I had kissed it seven times; he bestowed a robe of honour on me and I withdrew. ### [13.26.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.26.4) The newcomers assembled and a banquet was spread for them. Standing over them were the chief qāḍī, Ṣadr al-Jahān Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Khwārazmī, who was one of the great jurists; the chief qāḍī of the mamlūks, Ṣadr al-Jahān Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ghaznawī; ʿImād al-Mulk, the ʿarḍ al-mamālik (muster-master); al-Malik Jalāl al-Dīn al-Kījī; and a number of chamberlains and amīrs. Also present for it was Khudhāwandzāda Ghiyāth al-Dīn, cousin of Khudhāwandzāda Qawām al-Dīn, the qāḍī of Tirmidh who had come with us. The Sultan held him in great esteem and addressed him as "brother", and he had come to him from his country several times. ### [13.26.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.26.5) The newcomers on whom robes of honour were bestowed on that occasion were: Khudhāwandzāda Qawām al-Dīn and his brothers Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, ʿImād al-Dīn and Burhān al-Dīn; his nephew (sister's son) Amīr Bakht, son of al-Sayyid Tāj al-Dīn, whose grandfather Wajīh al-Dīn had been vizier of Khurāsān and whose maternal uncle ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn had been an amīr of Hind and also a vizier; the amīr Hibat Allāh b. al-Falakī al-Tabrīzī, whose father had been deputy vizier in ʿIrāq and who built the Falakiyya madrasa in Tabrīz; Malik Karāy, of the descendants of Bahrām Gūr, the companion of Kisrā, who is from the mountain of Badhakhshān from which the balas ruby and lapis lazuli are brought; the amīr Mubārak Shāh al-Samarqandī; Arūn Bughā al-Bukhārī; Malik Zāda al-Tirmidhī; and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kāzarūnī, the merchant who had come from Tabrīz with a gift for the Sultan and was robbed on his way. ## Translations (1) - [The Travels of Ibn Batūta](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.16.1.7) — Samuel Lee 1829, English ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.26.1) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.26](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.26) · Pramāṇa