التاريخ اليميني 46.31

46.31

The aim of the wronged adviser in making him flee and go far away was his fear of the snare of capture, lest [Chand Rāy] be made to take up the word of Islam as his uncles and kinsmen had been made to before, when they were forced to seek quarter and surrender. When the Sultan surrounded that fortress and conquered it, despite the strength of its foundations and the impregnability of its ascents and approaches, and gained from it great riches and wealth of every kind and of high value, what he found did not please him, since the infidel he sought had escaped him, and the earth grew narrow for him short of pursuing him and wresting him from the shelter of his flight. So he followed his tracks at a gallop some fifteen farsakhs, through growths of trees that strike faces and draw blood, and falls of stones that batter hooves and wear them down. He overtook the people on Sunday night, the twenty-fifth of Shaʿbān, at nightfall, as they were traversing the trackless land, descending and ascending, more busily than the merchants of Ḥaḍramawt fold their cloaks.