Muntakhab al-tawarikh 11: SULTÁNU-S SALÁTÍN IBRÁHÍM IBN MAS'ÚD IBN MAHMÚD

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Ascended the throne. He was a just and devout king and used to write each year a Qurán with his own hand and despatch it to the holy city of Mekka. He built no house for himself with the exception of a temple and a school to the honour and glory of God. When the affairs of state devolved upon him, he made peace with the Saljúqs and being free from apprehension, went to Hindústán and conquered many fortresses and districts.
From one city the inhabitants of which of Khurāsān descent, whom (Afrāsiyāb) had expelled, and who had become a populate, foundation in Hindūstān, he took a hundred thousand persons and sent them to Ghaznīn, with other spoils for the people. He built a number of towns, among them Khairābād, and beautiful that other. He has been described by the title of Saiyyidu-s-Salātīn, and enjoyed the reputation of being.
In his reign in Ghaznīn, the Dāru-sh-Shifā (eye medicine) and other mixtures and julābjāmīs and dietaries for all diseased folk used to be obtainable from his store-house. His death took place in the year 472 H. after a reign of thirty years. Ziyā Barawī says that his reign extended from the year 451 H. to the year 492 H. Mas'ūd Sa'd Salmān flourished in his time and the following verses are taken from an ode which was written in his honour.
Abul Qasim Malik Mahmud Ibrahim ibn In whom four things exult, each of them glories in him. Firstly, his expanded canopy, secondly, his flaunting banner, Thirdly his golden pen, fourthly his brilliant dagger.
This ode he finished completely in the same style, and in another place he says —
Emperor of the higher world, from the blessings of whose reign The sword’s lofty occupation is the control of things temporal and spiritual. Mas'ud (Fortunatus) because from the fortune of the expanse of kingdom's conquest He has gone beyond that which comes within the scope of the sword.