تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.34.1

13.34.1

On the ninth of Jumādā al-Ūlā the Sultan set out with the purpose of going to the land of al-Maʿbar and fighting the man who had risen up there. I had settled with my creditors and resolved to travel, and had given nine months' wages to the palanquin-bearers, the carpet-spreaders, the kaywāniyya and the dawādawiyya, who have been mentioned before. Then the order came that I should stay behind, along with a number of people. The chamberlain took our signatures to that effect so that it would serve him as proof — that is their custom, for fear that the amount might be denied. He ordered for me six thousand dinars in dirhams, and ordered ten thousand for the son of the qāḍī of Miṣr, and likewise for every one of the aʿizza (honoured ones) who stayed; but the local people were given nothing. The Sultan ordered me to take charge of the mausoleum of Sultan Quṭb al-Dīn, who has been mentioned before. The Sultan revered his tomb very greatly, because he had been in his service; I saw him, when he came to his grave, take his sandal, kiss it and place it on his head.