Muntakhab al-tawarikh 19: SULTAN MUIZZU-D-DIN MUHAMMAD IBN SAM GHORI.

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Ascending the throne as regent in place of his elder brother Sultan Ghiyasu-d-Din, king of Ghor and ‘Iraq and Khorasan, in the year 569 H., in Ghaznin, had the khutba read and the currency struck in his own name, and in obedience to the command of his brother brought several armies against Hindustan and raised aloft the standard of holy war. Dehli was reduced in his time.
In brief, Sultan Ghiyasu-d-Din when he had seized which was one of the dependencies of Garmsir and had made over the governorship of that place to Sultan Shihabu-d-Din, used continually to bring up armies against Ghazni, till at last in the abovementioned year Sultan Ghiyasu-d-Din brought that country within the circle of his conquests, and drove out of Ghaznin the tribe of Ghuzz who after the captivity of Sultan Sinjar had been in possession of it, and bestowed upon Sultan Muizzu-d-Din Muhammad, the title of Sultan Shihabu-d-Din. Sultan Shihabu-d-Din after one year of Sovereignty its vicegerent for his brother, in the year 570 H., conquered Kardiz; and in the year 571 H., took Uchh and Multan and drove out the tribe of the Karmatians from those regions, and utterly destroyed the Bhati tribe who had fortified themselves in the fortress of Uchh, and having entrusted that country to Ali Kirmaj returned to Ghazna.
Then in the year 574 H. (1178 A. D.) proceeding by way of Multan he brought an army against Gujrat, and suffered defeat at the hands of Rai Bhim Dev ruler of that country, and with great difficulty reached Ghaznin and obtained relief.
And in the year 575 H. he seized Parshur, and in the year 580 H. (1184 A. D.) marched against Lahore; Sultan Khusrau Malik who was the last of the kings of Ghaznin, shut himself up in the fortress of Lahore as has been related, and after considerable correspondence by letter and messenger, he sent his own son with an elephant as a present, and Sultan Shihabu-d-Din made peace with him, and set about building the town of Sialkot and having left his deputy there, proceeded to Ghaznin; and in the year 581 H. he brought an army against Diwal by which is meant Tattah and having thrown into confusion the cities on the seashore took a vast amount of plunder and returned.
And in the year 582 H. he came again to Lahore and plundered the surrounding country, and having provided Husain with the means of fortifying and holding Sialkot retraced his steps, and from Tarikh-i Nizami which is the original source of this selection we gather that the building of Sialkot took place in this year, in contradiction to the Mubarakshahi from which we learn that the building of Sialkot was two years earlier. God knows the truth. And inasmuch as the house of history is, like the house of dreams and other things of that sort, ruinous, apologies must be made for discrepancies, and in that year Khusrau Malik with the assistance of the Khukhars and other tribes, besieged the fort of Sialkot for a long time, but had to return without attaining his object. In this year also Mu'izzu-d-Din again besieged Khusrau Shah in Lahore, who after striving for some days, found himself unequal to the task, and yielded to the Sultan who conveyed him to Ghaznin and sent him to his brother Sultan Ghiyasu-d-Din at Firoz-Koh. Ghiyasu-d-Din imprisoned him in one of the fortresses of Gharjistan, where he died a prisoner, and the plain of Empire once for all passed to the dynasty of Ghor without the thorn of a partner or rival, as has been already mentioned.