تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.5.3

13.5.3

[days' journey] from Dihlī, and stayed there some days. His nephew was a brave warrior, and he conspired with the amīrs who were brought in to kill his uncle and flee with the treasuries and wealth in his keeping to the sharīf who had risen in the land of al-Maʿbar. They resolved to assassinate the vizier when he went out to the Friday prayer, but one of those they had let into their plot, named al-Malik Nuṣra the chamberlain, informed on them to the vizier, and told him that the sign of what they intended was that they were wearing coats of mail under their clothes. The vizier sent for them, found them so, and sent them to the Sultan.