تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.33.3

13.33.3

Then he ordered those trays to be carried to the place of his private sitting, and they were carried there; he rose and went to his audience room and summoned me, and ordered food, and I ate. Then he asked me about a kind of sweetmeat that I had sent him before, and I said to him, "O Khwand ʿĀlam, there are many kinds of those sweetmeats, and I do not know which kind of them you are asking about." He said, "Bring those aṭbāq" — they call a tray a ṭabaq. So they brought them, set them before him and uncovered them, and he said, "This is what I asked you about," and took the dish that it was in. I said to him, "This is called al-muqarraḍa." Then he took another kind and said, "And what is the name of this?" I said to him, "It is luqaymāt al-qāḍī [the qāḍī's morsels]." In his presence there was a merchant, one of the shaykhs of Baghdad, known as al-Sāmarrī, who traced his descent to the house of al-ʿAbbās (may God Most High be pleased with him); he was very wealthy, and the Sultan called him "my father." He envied me and wanted to embarrass me, so he said, "These are not luqaymāt al-qāḍī; rather these are," and took a piece of the kind called jild al-faras [horse's hide]. Opposite him was the Malik al-Nudamāʾ Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Kāfī al-Harawī, who often joked with this shaykh in the Sultan's presence, and he said to him: