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Muntakhab al-tawarikh 37.3.5

Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 37.3.5

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37.3.5

In the meantime one Randhol the uncle of Husamu-l Mulk with a body of the Barawas, having daggers concealed under their arms came upon Qazi Khan, and kept him engaged in talk on one way and another, till, taking him off his guard, they stabbed him and despatched him as a martyr to his abode in Paradise. There was a great uproar, and the Sultan, who at that moment had no other companion than Khusru Khan, enquired what was the tumult. Khusru Khan rose from beside him and went out to instigate his followers to murder the Sultan, then returned and said that some of the horses of the stud had broken loose, and were fighting among themselves. At this moment Jahiriya the uncle of Khusru Khan approached the Hazar Satun with a party of his men, and having assassinated Ibrahim and Ishaq who were on guard at the palace, made for the Sultan. The Sultan rising, half intoxicated as he was, ran towards the haram, Khusru Khan caught him from behind by the hair of his head, and as the Sultan was begging him to aid his escape Jahiriya arrived, aimed a blow at the Sultan wounding him in the side, then with his sword cutting off the Sultan's head threw it down below from the roof of the palace. Verse. The bed of that dear one was one of thorns For his brocaded bed led to his ruin.