کیا ہند کے عجائب کے بارے میں ابن بطوطہ کی خبریں مانی جائیں؟

Ibn Juzayy says he included all the shaykh's stories and reports without undertaking to investigate or test them, and that Ibn Battuta took the soundest course in vouching for the sound ones and freed himself of responsibility for the rest by wording that signals it.

Ibn Khaldun relates that at Abu Inan's court Ibn Battuta told of the marvels of the king of India, such as counting the people of his city and paying them six months' provisions, and scattering dirhams and dinars from catapults, so that people whispered he was lying; Ibn Khaldun met the vizier Faris ibn Wadrar and expressed his doubts, and the vizier warned him not to deny what he had not seen, lest he be like the vizier's son raised in prison who thought every meat was mouse meat; Ibn Khaldun then lays down that one should distinguish the possible from the impossible by sound reason, meaning possibility according to a thing's matter, not absolute logical possibility.