Muntakhab al-tawarikh 46.4

46.4

Many of his noted Amirs and of his body servants were put to death, and although Sultan Muhammad Shah was no longer able to stand against Abu Bakr Shah, still the soldiery and people were very ill-disposed towards Abu Bakr Shah, so that in the month of Ramazan in the aforesaid year, Mubashir Chap and some of the slaves of Firuz Shah’s party who had been promoted to the rank of Amir, and for one reason or another bore a grudge against Abu Bakr Shah, opened a secret correspondence with Muhammad Shah, and invited him; Abu Bakr Shah when he came to know of this was utterly dumbfounded, and under pretext of asking assistance from Bahadur Nahir set his face to go to Kotila of Miwat, and set out leaving Malik Shahin and ‘Imadu-l-Mulk and Malik Bahri and Safdar Khan in Dihli; then Muhammad Shah in obedience to the invitation of the Amirs entered Dihli for the third time and ascended the throne of royalty in the palace of Firuzabad with great ceremony; and Mubashir Chap, having received the title of Islam Khan, was promoted to the rank of Vazir, and after some time he left Firuzabad and went to the palace of Humayun, Jahan (Numa), and gave orders for the slaves of the Firuzi party who had been a source of disturbance in the days of tumult and riot to be put to death without distinction, and many of the free men also, who came from the eastern quarters of Hindustan were taken for slaves by reason of the imperfection of their pronunciation, and were put to the sword.