The Nāṣirī Generations 150: XV. MALIK NASIR-UD-DIN, AL-HUSAIN, SON OF MUHAMMAD, MADINI.

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When Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Husain, was made captive in the engagement with Sultan Sanjar, the [affairs of the] territories of Ghur and the Jibal [mountain tracts] became weak and disordered. The refractory and disobedient of Ghur began to show contumacy, and each tribe fortified itself in the hills and defiles in which it dwelt, and commenced carrying on strife and hostility one against the other.
A party of the great Amirs who still remained [for a great number had been slain or made captive in the battle against Sultan Sanjar] brought Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Husain, son of Muhammad, Madini, from Madin, and placed him on the throne of Firuz-koh. The treasures of Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, and the treasures of his son, Sultan Saif-ud-Din, he took into his own possession ; and the whole of the precious things, treasures, and valuable property, and other effects stored up, he expended upon those Amirs, and great men, and on mean persons, and seized upon the dominions of Ghur. His strength lay in the support of the rebels of the Kashi country.
This Malik, Nasir-ud-Din, had a great passion for women and virgins, and he had taken a number of the handmaids and slave girls of the haram of Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din under his own control, and used to have recourse to them.
When Sultan Ala-ud-Din, -having been dismissed with great honour and respect from the presence of Sultan Sanjar, set out towards the dominions of Ghur, and reached the hill country of Hirat, and the news of the advent of his exalted banners was brought to Firuz-koh, terror, and fright, and the fear of retribution, threw all hearts into dread. A party, who were loyally devoted to the Ala-i dynasty, secretly instigated and incited those slave girls of Ala-ud-Din's haram, who had been taken into Malik Nasir-ud-Din's haram, so that they sought an opportunity ; and, at a time when Malik Nasir-ud-Din was lying asleep on his couch, they placed the pillow of the couch over his face, and, with all their force, held down the four corners of the pillow until they suffocated him, and he died.