The Nāṣirī Generations 139.4

139.4

Jahan Ara, Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, and some others agree as to Muhammad, Suri’s son, having been made captive by Mahmud, but, like our author, contend that he [Muhammad] was succeeded by his son Abu-’Ali, who had always been obedient to Mahmud, and that he was appointed to the chieftainship of Ghur by that Sultan; and that afterwards Abu-’Ali was ousted by his nephew, ’Abbas, son of Shis [who had been taken captive with his father]. The chieftainship then passed into the hands of Muhammad, son of ’Abbas, then to Kutb-ud-Din, Hasan, his son, and then to the latter’s son, Husain, the ’Izz-ud-Din, Husain of our author. He, as well as other writers, does not make any remark whatever upon Abu-’Ali’s having been deprived of the chieftainship by ’Abbas, son of Shis. In this case the line terminated in Abu-’Ali’s family, and passed to the younger branch, and thus the Shansabani Sultans are not descended from him at all, but from Shis.