تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.9.4

13.9.4

Ibrāhīm knew that he wanted to kill him only because of his father, and that no excuse would help him; he feared being tortured and thought death better for him, so he confessed to it. The Sultan ordered him to be cut in two at the waist, and he was left there. Their custom is that whenever the Sultan kills someone, he remains lying at the place where he was killed for three days; after the three days a group of infidels appointed for this take him and carry him to a ditch outside the city, where they throw him. They live around the ditch so that the relatives of the slain man cannot come and remove him. Sometimes someone gives these infidels money and they look the other way about his slain kinsman so that he may bury him. That is what was done with the Sharīf Ibrāhīm, may God Most High have mercy on him.