تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.45.2

13.45.2

When this gift reached the Sultan, he wrote to him that granting this request was not permissible in the religion of Islam, and that building a temple in the land of the Muslims is allowed only to one who pays the jizya: "If you agree to pay it, we will permit you to build it; and peace be upon whoever follows the guidance." He repaid his gift with a better one: one hundred thoroughbred horses, saddled and bridled; one hundred mamlūks and one hundred slave-girls from the infidels of Hind, singers and dancers; one hundred bayramī robes, which are of cotton and unequalled in beauty, each worth one hundred dinars; one hundred pieces of the silk cloth known as juzz, with u on the j and a z, in which the silk of each piece is dyed in five or four colours; one hundred robes of the cloth known as ṣalāḥiyya; one hundred robes