History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.102

c10.102

He says that he took part in suppressing the rebellion and saw with his own eyes his arrest and degradation. He goes on to add that he accompanied the Sultan to the shrine of Salar Mas‘ud Ghazi, and was with him when he returned to Dihli.⁷⁴ On page 443 (Vol. III) he says that the rebellion of ‘Ain-al-Mulk occurred when he was at Saragdwāri. Suddenly Ibn Batūtah was seized with a religious fit, and he left the Sultan’s service in 742 A.H. in Sindh whither the latter had gone to suppress a rebellion. Now from these statements it is clear that ‘Ain-al-mulk’s revolt must have taken place before 742 A.H. The date 747 A.H. of the Indian historians is proved to be wrong by Ibn Batūtah’s statement and also by the fact that in this year the Deccan revolution was in full swing. Further, there is the evidence of Barani who says that at this time the Sultan was in the Deccan. After the revolt, Ibn Batūtah says, he accompanied the Sultan to Bahraich and thence to Dihli, and then he went to Sindh where he resigned his service in Rajab 742 A.H. All this must have taken some months, and we may reasonably conclude that the revolt occurred in 740-41 A.H. while the Sultan was still at Saragdwāri.