تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.92.1

13.92.1

On the second of Shawwāl I agreed with the vizier Sulaymān Mānāyak to marry his daughter. I sent to the vizier Jamāl al-Dīn asking that the marriage contract be concluded in his presence at the palace, and he agreed. He had betel and sandalwood brought as is the custom, and the people assembled, but the vizier Sulaymān was slow in coming. He was summoned and did not come; then he was summoned a second time and excused himself on account of the girl's illness. The vizier said to me privately, 'His daughter has refused, and she is mistress of her own affairs. The people have gathered; would you be willing to marry the stepdaughter of the sultana, his father's wife, whose daughter his son is married to?' I said to him, 'Yes.' So he summoned the qāḍī and the witnesses, the witnessing took place, and the vizier paid the dowry. She was brought to me a few days later, and she was one of the best of women. So good was her companionship that when I married another wife besides her she would perfume me and fumigate my clothes with incense, laughing, with no sign of displeasure showing on her.