[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) › 13.80 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.80 English (machine translation) 13.80 - **Language:** English ### [13.80.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.80.1) Something similar happened at Qāliqūṭ: the nephew of the deputy of its sultan seized by force a sword belonging to one of the Muslim merchants, who complained of it to his uncle. The uncle promised to look into the matter and sat at the door of his house, and there was his nephew wearing that sword. He called him and said: "Is this the Muslim's sword?" He said: "Yes!" He said: "Did you buy it from him?" ### [13.80.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.80.2) He said: "No." So he said to his attendants: "Seize him," and then gave orders, and his head was struck off with that very sword! ### [13.80.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.80.3) I stayed for a time at Kawlam in the hospice of Shaykh Fakhr al-Dīn, son of Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kāzarūnī, the shaykh of the hospice of Qāliqūṭ, but I could learn no news of the kakam. During my stay there the envoys of the king of China who had been with us arrived; they had sailed in one of those junks, and it too was wrecked. The Chinese merchants clothed them, and they returned to their country, where I met them afterwards. ### [13.80.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.80.4) I wanted to go back from Kawlam to the Sultan to inform him of what had befallen the gift, but then I feared he would find fault with what I had done and say: "Why did you leave the gift?" So I resolved to return to Sultan Jamāl al-Dīn al-Hinawrī and stay with him until I learned news of the junk. I went back to Qāliqūṭ and found there some of the Sultan's ships, in which he had sent an Arab amīr known as al-Sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan, who was one of the bardadāriyya, that is, the special doorkeepers. The Sultan had sent him with funds to attract whatever Arabs he could from the land of Hurmuz and al-Qaṭīf, because of his love for the Arabs. I went to this amīr and found him intending to spend the winter at Qāliqūṭ and then travel to the land of the Arabs. I consulted him about returning to the Sultan, but he did not agree to it! So I set out by sea from Qāliqūṭ; this was at the end of the sailing season, so we would sail during the first half of the day and then anchor until the next morning. On our way we met four warships and were afraid of them, but they did us no harm! We reached the city of Hinawr, and I went to the Sultan and greeted him. He lodged me in a house; I had no servant. He asked me to perform the prayers with him, so I spent most of my time in his mosque. I used to complete a reading of the Qurʾān every day, and then I would complete it twice a day: I would begin reciting after the dawn prayer and finish at midday, renew my ablution, begin reciting again and finish the second reading at sunset. I continued thus for three months, and spent forty days of that time in retreat (iʿtikāf). ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.80.1) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.80](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.80) · Pramāṇa