{
 "id": "event/timur-delhi-801",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "timur-delhi-801",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أخذ تيمور دلهي سنة 801هـ",
  "en": "Timur Takes Delhi in 801 AH"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "وفيها غزا اللنك بلاد الهند واستولى على دلهي وسبى منها خلقاً كثيراً ولما رجع إلى سمرقند بيع السبي الهندي برخص عظيم لكثرته {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 3}.",
  "en": "In 801 Timur raided India, took Delhi and carried off multitudes — on his return to Samarqand the Indian captives sold at the cheapest prices for their numbers {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 3}.",
  "ur": "801ھ میں تیمور نے ہندوستان پر حملہ کیا، دہلی پر قبضہ کیا اور بے شمار لوگوں کو قیدی بنایا — سمرقند لوٹتے ہوئے ہندوستانی قیدی کثرت کی وجہ سے سستے داموں بکے {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 3}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/mongol-post-mongol"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1398.001943913975,
  "latest": 1399.0012799714941
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1398~",
   "hijri": "0801",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "801هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 3}",
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1398~",
   "hijri": "0801",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "801هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 3}",
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "conquest",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1398~",
    "hijri": "0801",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "801هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 3}",
    "sources": [
     "source/shadharat-dhahab"
    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب — ابن العماد (ج6، سنة 801)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-shadharat-batch-60"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q12910863"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/shadharat-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يذكر ابن العماد أن اللنك، أي تيمور، غزا في سنة 801هـ بلاد الهند واستولى على دلهي وسبى منها خلقاً كثيراً. ولما رجع إلى سمرقند بيع السبي الهندي برخص عظيم لكثرته. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.3}\n\nالتاريخ الميلادي مشتق من الهجري."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/timur-delhi-801",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ibn Imad says that Lank, that is Timur, raided the lands of India in 801 AH and took Delhi, and took many captives from it. When he returned to Samarqand the Indian captives were sold at a very low price because of their number. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.3}\n\nThe Gregorian date is derived from the Hijri date."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/timur-delhi-801",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ابن العماد بیان کرتے ہیں کہ اللنک، یعنی تیمور، نے 801 ہجری میں ہندوستان پر حملہ کیا، دہلی پر قبضہ کیا اور وہاں سے بہت سے لوگوں کو قیدی بنایا۔ جب وہ سمرقند واپس گئے تو قیدیوں کی کثرت کی وجہ سے ہندی قیدی بہت سستے بیچے گئے۔ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.3}\n\nعیسوی تاریخ ہجری سے اخذ کی گئی ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/timur-delhi-801",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/timur-lang",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "القائد الغازي",
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/delhi",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/aurangzeb-coronation-delhi-1659",
  "event/battle-ankara-804",
  "event/founding-of-shahjahanabad-1638",
  "event/humayun-returns-to-delhi-962",
  "event/ibn-battuta-envoy-to-china-1342",
  "event/ibn-khaldun-audience-timur-803",
  "event/jama-masjid-delhi-completed-1656",
  "event/nadir-shah-sack-of-delhi-1739"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}