[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Travel and sea narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla) › [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt) › 13.71 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.71 English (machine translation) 13.71 - **Language:** English ### [13.71.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.71.1) Opposite the congregational mosque I saw a green, smooth tree whose leaves resemble fig leaves except that they are soft, with a wall enclosing it, and beside it a miḥrāb in which I prayed two rakʿas. They call this tree darakht al-shahāda — darakht with a on the undotted d and the r, kh without vowel, and the two-dotted t. I was told there that when autumn comes each year, a single leaf falls from this tree after its colour has turned first yellow, then red, and on it is written by the pen of divine power "There is no god but God; Muḥammad is the Messenger of God." The jurist Ḥusayn and a number of trustworthy people told me that they had seen this leaf with their own eyes and read what was written on it. He told me that when the days of its falling come, trustworthy Muslims and infidels sit beneath it, and when it falls the Muslims take half of it and half is placed in the treasury of the infidel sultan, and they use it to seek healing for the sick. ### [13.71.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.71.2) This tree was the cause of the conversion to Islam of Kuwayl's grandfather who built the mosque and the tank, for he could read Arabic script, and when he read it and understood what was on it he became a Muslim and was a good Muslim. His story is widely transmitted among them. ### [13.71.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.71.3) The jurist Ḥusayn told me that one of his sons reverted to unbelief after his father, acted tyrannically, and ordered the tree to be uprooted. It was uprooted and no trace of it was left; but afterwards it sprang up again and became as fine as it had ever been, and the infidel soon perished. ### [13.71.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.71.4) Then we sailed to the city of Budfattan, a large city on a large estuary. Outside it, near the sea, is a mosque where Muslim strangers take shelter, since there is no Muslim in this city. Its harbour is among ### [13.71.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.71.5) the finest of anchorages, and its water is sweet. Areca nut is plentiful there, and from it is shipped to Hind and China. Most of its inhabitants are Brahmans, who are held in high esteem by the infidels and hate the Muslims; for that reason there is no Muslim among them. ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.71.1) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.71](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.71) · Pramāṇa