Burhan al-Din al-Buqa'i

Burhan al-Din al-Buqa'i the historian; he relates in his own hand that on the night of Sunday 9 Sha'ban 821 men of his village fell on his kin the Banu Hasan and killed nine souls, and he himself was struck three sword-blows, one wounding his head — he was then twelve years old. His family left the village and moved through the villages of Wadi'l-Taym and the 'Arqub until he was carried to Cairo. ¹