History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.101

c10.101

Ibn Batūṭah is an eyewitness of the rebellion. He gives a detailed account of it which is in material particulars corroborated by Barani who is a contemporary writer and by Yahya bin ‘Abdullah, the author of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* who is followed by almost all later writers in the matter of the chronology of this reign. Ibn Batūṭah says that on the 9th Jamad-al-awwal the Sultan went towards Ma‘bar to quell the revolt of Jalal-al-Din Ahsan Shah and returned to Dihli after two and a half years. After staying in Dihli for some time, he went to Saragdwāri in the heart of the Doab, where he again stayed for two and a half years. Barani and Ibn Batūṭah both agree on this point. He further says that the revolt of ‘Ain-al-Mulk occurred at the end of the period after which the emperor came back to Dihli and left for Sindh, where Ibn Batūṭah resigned the royal service in Rajab 742 A.H. He was present in the royal camp at Saragdwāri, when ‘Ain-al-Mulk’s rebellion broke out, and the minute details which he gives regarding the preparations of the Sultan and the mode of fighting, etc., leave no room for doubt that he is correct.