Muntakhab al-tawarikh 43.3.3

43.3.3

From this it is clear that the Sultan was a mixture of opposites, and for this reason his name has been handed down in tradition, he and even in some books also as "the Bloody," not as "the Just." There are many stories bearing upon this which I have heard, but to relate or speak of them would lead me too far afield. So "Take example from it ye that are endowed with sight." In short, after great havoc had been wrought in the affairs of the state by the excessive tyranny and oppression of the Sultan, which he however regarded as the essence of justice, and great breaches had been which the wise and learned were powerless to repair, by reason of his ruinous toils and his evil designs, the disease of Phthisis found its way to his constitution; notwithstanding this he set himself to follow up Taghi, and in the hope of exterminating him set out for the kingdom of Thatha where Taghi had fled for safety; and in that expedition Qarghan Naib of the king of Khurasan sent Altun Bahadur with five thousand cavalry to assist the Sultan. The Sultan’s illness was at that time slightly less urgent and when he arrived at Thatha he fasted on the day of the ‘Ashura, which was in the very middle of the hot season, and after breaking his fast he ate some fish, whereupon his illness returned, and on the twenty-first of Muharram in the year 752 H, (1351 A.D. ) he took his way to the next world, the duration of his reign having been twenty-seven years.