Riyaz al-salatin 55: REIGN OF AHMAD SHAH, SON OF JALALU-D-DIN.

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When Sultan Jalalu-d-din was laid in the grave, his son Ahmad Shah, with the consent of the nobles and the generals of the army, ascended the throne, in succession to his father. As he was very peevish, oppressive and blood-thirsty, he shed blood for nothing, and used to cut open the bodies of pregnant woman. When his oppressions reached the utmost limits, and the low and the high were exasperated to desperation by his tyranny, Shadi Khan and Nasir Khan who were his two slaves and held the rank of nobles intrigued, and killed Ahmad Shah; and this event occurred in 830 A.H. His reign lasted sixteen years, and according to another account, eighteen years.