تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.7

13.7.1

When the Sultan reached the land of al-Tiling, on his way to fight the sharīf in the land of al-Maʿbar, he halted at the city of Badrakūt — its name is spelled with a over the b, no vowel on the d, a over the r, u on the k, then w and dotted t — which is the capital of the land of al-Tiling, spelled with i on the dotted t and on the l, no vowel on the n, and a hard k. Between it and the land of al-Maʿbar is three months' journey. At that time plague broke out in his army and most of them perished. Slaves and mamlūks died, and great amīrs such as Malik Dawlat Shāh, whom the Sultan used to address as 'uncle', and Amīr ʿAbd Allāh al-Harawī, whose story has been told in the first volume — he was the one whom the Sultan ordered to carry away from the treasury as much money as he could, and he tied thirteen bags to his arms and carried them off. When the Sultan saw what had befallen the army he returned to Dawlat Ābād. The provinces rebelled and the outlying regions broke away, and the kingship would almost have slipped from his hand, had it not been for what destiny had already decreed of the firm establishment of his good fortune.