The Nāṣirī Generations 128.2.5

128.2.5

The matter was accordingly referred to the ’Ulama and Muftis of Bukhara respecting the obligation to repeat the last prayer at night, [question being asked] to this effect: — As the light of twilight did not disappear at all, whether the prayer before sleep was necessary or not? They, with one accord, wrote a reply, that the prayer before sleep was not necessary, when the prescribed time for it could not be found with the people inhabiting such regions. Kadr Khan, the Tatar, having in this expedition been overcome, the calamity of the infidels of Chin arose, and the darkness of the night of sedition and tumult showed its head from the mantle-collar of actuality, and was the beginning of dire misfortunes to the true faith, and the commencement of calamities and afflictions upon the Muhammadan people. That circumstance occurred after this manner:—Chingiz Khan, the Mughal, had a son, the eldest of all his sons, Tushi by name. At this time, this Tūshī, by command of Chingiz Khān, his father, had come out of the territory of Chīn, in pursuit of an army of Tātārs, and Sulṭān Muḥammad, from Māwar-un-Nahr and Khurāsān, had likewise pushed on in the same direction; and the two armies fell in with each other.