التاريخ اليميني 19.4

19.4

ثم طالبه بتصحيح المال حتى أداه، وارتهن به بعض رضاه، فكانت الحال بينهما [من بعد] قائمة على جملة المسالمة، إلى أن حدث من أمر أبي علي بن سيمجور في الجولة التي اتفقت له بباب نيسابور، وما تقدم شرحه، فأظهر تقربا إلى ناصر الدين بمساعدته على خصمه، ومرافدته بنفسه، وسائر أهل جملته، امتنانا عليه بظاهر المظاهرة ، وإضمارا للتشفي من أبي علي بمعونته الحاضرة، وقوته الباهرة، إذ كان قد وتره بقصد حصاره، وغزوه [110 أ] في عقر داره، واقتساره بسيوف أنصاره.

Then he demanded that he settle the money, until he paid it, and he took hostages for it as a pledge of some of his goodwill. Relations between them [thereafter] rested on a general footing of peace, until there occurred the affair of Abū ʿAlī ibn Sīmjūr in the clash that befell him at the gate of Nīshāpūr, as related earlier. [Khalaf] then showed eagerness to win favour with Nāṣir al-Dīn by helping him against his adversary and aiding him in person together with all his people, making a show of obliging him by open support, while secretly harbouring the wish to take revenge on Abū ʿAlī through this ready help and dazzling strength, since [Abū ʿAlī] had wronged him by setting out to besiege him, attacking him [110a] in the heart of his own home and constraining him with the swords of his supporters.