تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.69.2

13.69.2

He is one of the greatest sultans of that country, and his name is Rām Daw — with a on the r and the m and the undotted d, and w without vowel. In it there are about four thousand Muslims living in a suburb beside the city. Sometimes war breaks out between them and the people of the city, and the sultan makes peace between them because of his need for the merchants. In it there is a qāḍī, one of the virtuous and generous, of the Shāfiʿī school, called Badr al-Dīn al-Maʿbarī, who teaches the sciences. He came up to us on board the ship and urged us to come ashore to his town. We said, "Not until the sultan sends his son to stay on the ship." He said, "The sultan of Fākanūr only did that because the Muslims have no strength in his town; as for us, the sultan fears us." But we refused him unless the sultan sent his son, and he sent his son as the other had done. We went ashore to them, they honoured us greatly, and we stayed with them three days.