[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) › 13.94.1 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.94.1 English (machine translation) 13.94.1 - **Language:** English ### [13.94.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.94.1) It happened one day that a slave of Sultan Jalāl al-Dīn was denounced by his wife to the vizier, who was informed that he was committing adultery with one of the Sultan's concubines. The vizier sent witnesses, who entered the concubine's house and found the slave asleep with her in one bed, and they imprisoned the two of them. When morning came and I learned the news, I went to the council hall and sat in my usual place, saying nothing about the matter. One of the vizier's intimates came out to me and said, "The vizier says to you: do you have any business?" I said, "No!" His intention was that I should raise the matter of the concubine and the slave, since it was my custom that no case arose without my giving judgment on it; but once the change \[of feeling\] and the estrangement had occurred, I held back from that. After that I went home and sat in the place where I gave judgments, and there came one of the viziers, who said to me, "The vizier says to you: last night such-and-such happened in the case of the concubine and the slave, so judge them according to the sacred law." I said to him, "This is a case in which judgment should be given only in the Sultan's palace." So I went back there, the people assembled, and the concubine and the slave were brought. I ordered them both to be beaten for being alone together, released the woman, imprisoned the slave, and went home. The vizier then sent a group of his leading men to me about releasing the slave. I said to them, "Do you intercede for a Zanj slave who violates the honour of his master, when only yesterday you deposed Sultan Shihāb al-Dīn and killed him because he entered the house of one of his slaves?" At that I ordered the slave to be beaten with bamboo canes, which strike harder than whips, and had him paraded around the island with a rope around his neck. - [Previous: 13.93.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.93.4) - [Next: 13.94.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.94.2) - [Up: 13.94](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.94) ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.94.1) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.94.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.94.1) · Pramāṇa