تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.59.1

13.59.1

When the rebellion of the qāḍī Jalāl al-Afghānī that we described earlier took place, the aforementioned Shams al-Dīn, the ship-owner Ilyās, who was one of the leading men of this city, and Malik al-Ḥukamāʾ, mentioned before, resolved to hold out against him in this city, and began digging a moat around it, since it has no wall. But he overcame them and entered it, and the three men hid in a single house. Fearing they would be discovered, they agreed to kill themselves, and each of them struck his companion with a qattāra—we have described it already. Two of them died, but Malik al-Ḥukamāʾ did not die.