According to which of the following foreign travellers, people of Delhi used to write letters containing abuses to the Sultan, therefore, in order to punish them Sultan decided to shift the capital?

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- Context: Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq ordered the famous transfer of his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad (Deogiri) in the 14th century.
- Primary source: The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta (Ibn Batuta) visited India during Muhammad bin Tughlaq's reign and recorded many court anecdotes in his travelogue (Rihla).
- Specific anecdote: Ibn Battuta mentions that some people of Delhi had written abusive letters about the Sultan, and one of the explanations recorded for the drastic move of the capital was that the Sultan wanted to punish those people by relocating the seat of government.
- Elimination: Al-Biruni lived earlier and did not record this event; Hasan Nizami and Isami do not give this particular anecdote about moving the capital as a punishment for abusive letters.

Therefore the traveller who recorded this specific story is Ibn Battuta.

FINAL_ANSWER: c

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