تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.35.1

13.35.1

The custom of the people of Hind is to make arrangements for their dead like their arrangements in life: elephants and horses are brought and tied at the door of the tomb, decked out. Accordingly I made arrangements in this tomb: I appointed a hundred and fifty reciters of the Qurʾān, whom they call khatmiyyūn, and appointed eighty students, and appointed the imām