تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.28.1

13.28.1

On Friday, the day after the Sultan's entry, we came to the gate of the council hall and sat in the porticoes of the third gate, for permission to enter had not yet been granted us. The chamberlain Shams al-Dīn al-Fūshanjī came out and ordered the secretaries to write down our names; he gave them permission for us and some of our companions to enter, and eight were designated to enter with me. So we went in and they went in with us. Then they brought purses and the qabbān, which is the scales. The chief qāḍī and the secretaries sat down and called the aʿizza (honoured ones) who were at the gate — that is, the foreigners — and assigned each person his share of those purses. I received five thousand dinars from them. The total sum was a hundred thousand dinars, which the Sultan's mother gave in alms when her son arrived. We withdrew that day.