تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.46.1

13.46.1

When we reached the city of Kūl, news came to us that some of the Hindu infidels had besieged the town of al-Jalālī and surrounded it; it lies seven miles from Kūl. We made for it while the infidels were fighting its people, who were near to perishing. The infidels knew nothing of us until we charged them in earnest. They numbered about a thousand horsemen and three thousand foot; we killed them to the last man and took their horses and weapons. Of our company twenty-three horsemen and fifty-five foot fell as martyrs, and the eunuch Kāfūr the cupbearer, into whose hands the gift had been entrusted, was martyred. We wrote to the Sultan with news of him and stayed awaiting the reply.