alfadl ibn alabbas ibn razin said one day turkish horsemen came to us and no one who was outside remained except that he entered his fortress and closed its door. they surrounded one of those fortresses and one of their horsemen saw an old man looking down at them from above so the turk said to him if you do not come down to me i will kill you in a way i have never killed anyone before! he said so he came down to him and opened the door for him and they entered the fortress and swept away everything in it so he laughed at his coming down to him and opening it for him while he was in the most fortified and impregnable place then he came with him to the fortress i was in and said buy him from me. we said we have no need for that. he said i will sell him for one dirham. so we threw him a dirham and he let him go then he turned away from us and went with his companions. it was not long before he came back to us and stood where we could hear him talking so that startled us so he took the dirham out of his mouth and broke it in half. he said it is not worth a dirham and this is a huge loss so take this half and in any case it is very expensive with the other half.
وقال الفضل بن العباس بن رزين أتانا ذات يوم فرسان من الترك، فلم يبق أحد ممن كان خارجا إلا دخل حصنه وأغلق بابه، وأحاطوا بحصن من ذلك الحصون، وأبصر فارس منهم شيخا يطلع إليهم من فوق، فقال له التركي لئن لم تنزل إلي لأقتلنك قتلة ما قتلتها أحدا! قال فنزل إليه وفتح له الباب، ودخلوا الحصن، واكتسحوا كل شيء فيه، فضحك من نزوله إليه وفتحه له وهو في أحصن موضع وأمنع مكان، ثم أقبل به إلى حصن أنا فيه فقال اشتروه مني. قلنا لا حاجة لنا في ذلك. قال فإني أبيعه بدرهم واحد. فرمينا إليه بدرهم فخلى سبيله، ثم أدبر عنا ومضى مع أصحابه، فما لبث إلا قليلا حتى عاد إلينا فوقف حيث نسمع كلامه، فراعنا ذلك، فأخرج الدرهم من فمه وكسره بنصفين. وقال لا يسوى درهما، وهذا غبن فاحش، فخذوا هذا النصف، وهو على كل حال غال جدا بالنصف الآخر.