تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.88.6

13.88.6

On the ninth of Ramaḍān the vizier's son-in-law, his daughter's husband, died. Before him she had been with Sultan Shihāb al-Dīn, and neither of them had consummated the marriage with her because she was so young. Her father brought her back to his house and gave me her house, which is one of the finest houses. I asked his permission to give a feast for the faqīrs returning from visiting the Foot, and he gave me leave for it and sent me five sheep, which are precious among them because they are imported from al-Maʿbar, al-Mulaybār and Maqdishū; and he sent rice, chickens, ghee and spices. I sent all of it to the house of the vizier Sulaymān Mānāyak, and it was cooked for me there; he cooked it well and added to it, and he sent carpets and copper vessels. We broke the fast as usual at the sultana's palace with the vizier, and I asked his permission for some of the viziers to attend that feast. He said to me, 'I will come too.' I thanked him and went back to my house, and there he came, and with him the viziers and the officers of state. He sat in a raised wooden pavilion, and each of the amīrs and viziers who came greeted the vizier and threw down an unsewn cloth, until a hundred cloths or so had been collected, and the faqīrs took them.