التاريخ اليميني 19.4

19.4

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.