The Nāṣirī Generations 152.1.1

152.1.1

Trustworthy persons have stated, after the following manner, that Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, and his brother, Sultan Mu'izz-ud-Din, were both born of one mother; and that Ghiyas-ud-Din was the elder of Mu'izz-ud-Din by three years and a little more. Their mother was the daughter of Malik Badr-ud-Din, Kidani, both of the lineage of Banji, son of Naharan, and also of the seed of the Shansabanis. The Malikah, their mother, used to call Ghiyas-ud-Din [by the name of] Habashi; and Mu'izz-ud-Din, Zangi; but, originally, the august name of Ghiyas-ud-Din was Muhammad, and the name of Mu'izz-ud-Din was also Muhammad. In the dialect of Ghur they call Muhammad, Ahmad. When Malik Baha-ud-Din, Sam, died within the limits of Kidan, and Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Husain, ascended the throne of Firuz-koh, he commanded that his two nephews, Ghiyas-ud-Din and Mu’izz-ud-Din, should be imprisoned in the fortress of Wajiristan, and fixed but a small allowance for the supply of their wants. When Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din departed from this world, Sultan Saif-ud-Din directed that they should be released from that fortress, and he allowed them entire liberty of action. Ghiyas-ud-Din took up his residence at the Court of Firuz-koh in amity with Sultan Saif-ud-Din, and Mu’izz-ud-Din, his brother, proceeded to Bamian to the presence of his paternal uncle, Malik Fakhr-ud-Din, Mas’ud.