[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 143 # The Nāṣirī Generations 143: VIII. MALIK KUTB-UD-DIN, AL-HASAN, SON OF MUHAMMAD, SON OF 'ABBAS. Tabakat-i-Nasiri 143 - **Language:** English ### [143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.143) Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Hasan, the grandfather of the great Sultans of Ghur, was a just Amir, high-principled, and of handsome countenance. The proofs of his goodness, equity, clemency, and beneficence were sufficiently obvious and manifest to the inhabitants of Ghur. Such factions as were in the habit of acting contumaciously he used to occupy himself in chastizing and overthrowing, and considered it incumbent on himself to punish severely the disaffected and seditious. The tribes of the territory of Ghur. having sprung from families of 'Arabs and having been nurtured, and grown up, in a mountainous tract of country, obstinacy, turbulence, and contumacy were implanted in the constitutions and characters of the whole of the Ghurian tribes. Feuds and contentions would continually arise of one tribe against another, and conflicts constantly ensue. Every year one district or another of the territory of Ghur would manifest antagonism \[to the constituted authority\] and withhold the payment of the regulated amount of revenue; and up to \[near\] this present time, when the dominion of the Ghurian Sultans came to its termination, the state of these peoples continued to be seen and witnessed \[after the same fashion\]. Upon one occasion, during the time of Malik Kutb-ud-Din, Hasan, a tribe who dwelt in Tak-ab of the territory of Wajiristan, rose in rebellion. Malik Kutb-ud-Din, with his followers and the chiefs of Ghur, appeared at the foot of that Kushk and the stronghold of that faction, and summoned them to surrender. They refused to submit, and commenced hostilities. Unexpectedly, by destiny’s decree, an arrow from the bow of fate came from the rebels and struck Malik Kutb-ud-Din in the eye, and, as it had wounded a mortal part, he died from the injury. His retainers and followers, immediately on seeing the effect of that arrow’s wound, with the utmost daring, and putting forth all their energy, attacked and carried the Kushk and stronghold by storm, and put the whole of the rebels to the sword, and that place was completely destroyed. Up to the time of the last of the Sultans of Ghur, and the termination of the sovereignty of the Shansabanis, no king would grant permission for the restoration of that Kushk, its equipments, and the suburbs of that place, with the exception of the Kushk of Amir Kharnak, which was in that Ab-i-Tang, for his ancestors had always been obedient. When Kutb-ud-Din, Hasan, departed this life, his son, Amir Husain, succeeded him. - [Previous: 142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.142) - [Next: 144](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.144) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.143) · Pramāṇa