التاريخ اليميني 19.123

19.123

Then groups of the stars of sedition and the missiles of evil and faction, made insolent by ease of living, abundance of security, comfort of circumstance and breadth of scope, talked among themselves of putting forward someone who would unite them in rebellion and lead them in revolt against the Sultan, courting affliction, rubbing up against misery, and daring an evil fate. They showed the face of dissent and drew the blade of evil from its sheath. When the Sultan saw Sijistān rising against his deputies and trusted men, he hastened there with ten thousand men of the picked troops of the army, accompanied by the commander of the army Abū al-Muẓaffar Naṣr ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn, Altūntāsh the Chamberlain, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭāʾī, chief of the Arabs. He besieged the insolent rebels in the fortress of Ark, posted the cavalry of his army along the sides of the walls, and divided the sectors of that siege among them.