[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Bengal, Orissa and the North-East](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east) › [Riyāẓ al-salāṭīn](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin) › [The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam) › 64 # Riyaz al-salatin 64: THE REIGN OF SIDI BADR, STYLED MUZAFFAR SHAH. The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam) 64 - **Language:** English ### [64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.64) When Muzaffar Shah mounted the throne in the city of Gaur, being very blood-thirsty and audacious, he slew many of the learned and the pious and the nobility of the city, and also killed the infidel Rajahs who were opposed to the sovereigns of Bengal. He bestowed on Syed Husain Sharif Maki the office of Vizier, and made him Administrator of the affairs of Government. And he became assiduous in hoarding treasure, and by the counsel of Syed Husain, he cut down pay of soldiers, and set about building a treasury, and he committed oppressions in the collection of revenue. Consequently the people, receiving injuries at the hands of Muzaffar Shah, became disgusted with him. Gradually, Syed Husain's mind was also changed, so that matters came to this pass, that in the year 903 A.H., most of the principal noblemen, seceding from the king, went out of the city, whilst Sultan Muzaffar Shah with five thousand Abyssinians and three thousand Afghans and Bengalis entrenched himself in the fort of Gaur. For a period of four months, between the people inside, and outside, the city, fightings raged, and daily a large number of people were killed. It is said that, during the period Sultan Muzaffar was entrenched in the fort, whenever any one was captured and brought before him, he used to kill him with the sword with his own hand, with a ferocity characteristic of the Abyssinians, so that the number of people killed by him amounted to four thousand. At length, Muzaffar Shah, sallying out with his force from the city, gave battle to the nobles, whose leader was Syed Husain Sharif ; and from both sides, twenty thousand men fell, either by the sword or the arrow. The field was heaped up with the slaughtered : You might say another rampart had been raised ! At length, the zephyr of victory wafted on the standard of the nobles. Muzaffar Shah, with a number of his associates and adherents, was killed on the field. And according to the statement of Haji Muhammad Qandahari, during that time, from the beginning to the end of the war, one lakh and twenty thousand people, of both Musalman and Hindu persuasions, passed to the regions of destruction. And Syed Husain Sharif Maki, gaining the throne, raised the standard of sovereignty. And in the history of Nizamu-d-din Ahmad, it is related that when the people got disgusted with the misconduct of Muzaffar Shah, Syed Sharif Maki becoming aware of this state of national disgust, won over to his side the Commandant of the Household troops and, one night, with thirteen men entering the inner chambers, slew Muzaffar Shah, and next morning mounted the throne, and proclaimed himself Sultan 'Alau-d-din. The reign of Muzaffar Shah lasted three years and five months. A mosque, amongst his other buildings, exists at Gaur. - [Previous: 63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.63) - [Next: 65.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.65.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.64) · Pramāṇa