Mercenaries in a Muslim army in Persia 1525
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Ibn Arabshah: Timur-Nahmeh
(History of Timur) (before1450) Syria
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Taken from: John Herne Sanders; Tamerlane, Or Timur, the Great Amir
And he had built in the cemetery of the Little Gate two adjoining shrines over the grave of the wives of the Prophet (1), on whom be the Mercy of Allah! And ordered slaves of Zinj to be
collected, of whom he sought to possess more and preferred them to others.
Note; it seems that Timur might have been responsible for some extra slave raiding on the East African coast.
A giraffe given to Timur by the Sultan of Egypt. The picture appears in one of the copies of a Zafar Nahmeh
Right: Emir Timur and his forces persuading him to advance against the Golden Horde, Khan Tokhtamysh. From Hafiz I abru. Note the many Zanj in his army
(1) The wives buried in al-Baqi (main cemetery in Madinah) are as follows:
Aisha bint Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
Sawda bint Zam’a
Hafsa bint Umar ibn al-Khattab
Zaynab bint Khuzayma
Umm Salama bint Abi Umayya
Juwayriyya bint al-Harith
Umm Habiba, Ramla bint Abi Sufyan
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Zaynab bint Jahsh M
All of his wives except Khadija bint Khuwaylid and Maymuna bint al-Harith K are buried here.
