The Nāṣirī Generations 152.3.3

152.3.3

At the outset of the career of those sovereigns [Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din and Mu’izz-ud-Din], both the brothers followed the tenets of the Kirami sect, in imitation of their ancestors and [the people of] their dominions; but Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, the younger brother, when he ascended the Ghaznin throne, the people of that city and territory being followers of the tenets of the Great Imam, Abu Hanifah of Kufa, in conformity with them, adopted the doctrines of Abu Hanifah. Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, however, saw, whilst in a dream, that he was used to be in the same masjid along with the illustrious Kazi, Wahid-ud-Din, Marwazi, who followed the religious doctrines of the Traditionists, and who was one of the leaders of the Shafi’i sect. Unexpectedly, Imam Shafi himself enters, and proceeds to the Mihrab and begins to repeat the prayers; and Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, and Kazi Wahid-ud-Din, both of them follow Imam Shafi in so doing.