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MALIK-UL-HAJI, ’ALA-UD-DIN, MUHAMMAD, SON OF MALIK SHUJA’-UD-DIN, ABI-’ALI, SON OF \[’IZZ-UD-DIN\], AL-HUSAIN, SON OF AL-HASAN, SHANSABI. ### [157.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157.1) Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, was the son of Malik Shuja’-ud-Din, Abi-’Ali, and he was the uncle’s son of both the Sultans, Ghiyas-ud-Din and Mu’izz-ud-Din, and was older than either of the brothers. He had performed the pilgrimage, as well as fought against infidels; and, in addressing him, they \[the Sultans\] used to style him Khudawand \[my Lord\]. The daughter of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, who was named Mah Malik \[Malikah\], and styled by the title of Jalal-ud-Dunya wa-ud-Din, whose mother was the daughter of Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Jahan-soz, was married to Malik ’Ala-ud-Din. That daughter was a highly dignified princess, and knew the sacred Kur’an by heart, and she had also committed to memory the Akhbar-i-Shihabi \[the Shihabi traditions\], and her handwriting was as pearls befitting a king. Once every year she was in the habit of performing a prayer of two genuflexions, during which she would repeat the whole Kur’an from beginning to end. The cause of her passing from the world a maid was this, that, before he was joined in wedlock to her, Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, possessed a Turkish hand-maid, who was the mother of his son \[Rukn-ud-Din\]; but he had contracted marriage with her, and was not capable of consummating his marriage with this princess. In beauty, purity, and self-restraint, she had no equal in the whole world. ### [157.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157.2) The mother of the writer of these pages was the foster-sister and school-companion of this princess; and this devotee \[himself\] was brought up in the princess’s own hall of favour and her haram of chastity, up to the period of his entering upon the bounds of adolescence, in the service of her royal dwelling, and her private apartments. The maternal uncles of this devotee, and his maternal ancestors, were all attached to the service of that princess’s Court, and to the Court of her father; and this poor individual \[himself\] received many proofs of that lady’s favour and bounty: God reward her! At last her martyrdom and death took place in the territory of ’Irak during the calamities which arose on the irruption of the infidels \[the Mughals\]. The mercy of the Almighty be upon her! During the lifetime of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Malik ’Ala-ud-Din held in fief, belonging to the district of Bust, and Wajiah \[or Wejah\] of the territory of Garmsir \[of Ghur\], and Organ \[or Urkan\] of Ghaznin In the battle which the Sultan-i-Ghazi, Mu'izz-ud-Din, fought against Pithora Rae of Ajmir, and in which the Sultan was defeated, Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, accompanied the Sultan-i-Ghazi, and, during that expedition, did good service. When the Sultans of Ghur proceeded into Khurasan, and Nishapur was taken, Ala-ud-Din was installed in the territory of Nishapur, and, for a considerable period, he remained at the city of Nishapur, and acted towards its people with justice and beneficence. ### [157.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157.3) When Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, arrived from Khwarazm before the gate of Nishapur, Ala-ud-Din defended the place for some time. At last he entered into a convention, and surrendered the city to Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, and returned again into Ghur. When Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din was removed to the Almighty’s mercy, the Sultan-i-Ghazi, Mu’izz-ud-Din, conferred the throne of Firuz-koh, and the territories of Ghur, Gharjistan, and Zamin-i-Dawar, upon him; and, in the Khutbah, his title became Malik Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad. Previous to this they used to style him Malik Ziya-ud-Din, the Pearl of Ghur. He held possession of Firuz-koh and the territories of Ghur and Gharjistan for a period of four years; and in the year 601 H., when the Sultan-i-Ghazi, Mu’izz-ud-Din, proceeded towards Khwarazm, and took \[with him\] the armies of Ghur and Ghaznin, Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, the Pearl of Ghur, conducted sundry of the troops of Ghur into Mulhidistan and Kuhistan, and advanced to the gate of the city of Kain, and \[from thence\] pushed on to Junabad of Kuhistan, and captured the castle of Kaha of Junabad; and, after having performed numerous feats of arms and holy warfare, he returned into Ghur again. ### [157.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157.4) When the Sultan-i-Ghazi, Mu'izz-ud-Din, attained martyrdom, Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Mahmud, son of \[Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din\] Muhammad, son of Sam, advanced out of Bust, which was one of his fiefs, into Zamin-i-Dawar; and the Maliks and Amirs of Ghur joined Sultan Mahmud, and he set out towards the capital city, Firuz-koh. Malik ’Ala-ud-Din came from Firuz-koh into Gharjistan, and, when he reached the head of the bridge over the Murgh-ab river, the Sipah-salar, Hasan-i-Abd-ul-Malik, came up after him, and caused him to turn back; and, by command of Mahmud, he was confined in the castle of Ashiyar of Gharjistan. When Sultan Mahmud was assassinated, and the sovereignty of Ghur fell to Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Utsuz-i-Husain, he caused Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, to be released from the fortress of Ashiyar, brought him to Firuz-koh, and treated him with honour and respect, until he slew the Sipah-salar, ’Umr-i-Shalmati, for murdering his son, Malik Rukn-ud-Din, Mahmud-i-Iran Shah. The cause of it was this, that, when Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, in the reign of Sultan \[Ghiyas-ud-Din\], Mahmud, son of Muhammad-i-Sam, was seized \[as just previously related\], his son, Malik Rukn-ud-Din, Mahmud-i-Iran Shah, retired to Ghaznin. He was a prince of sufficient greatness, and endowed with perfect wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and famed for his lofty-mindedness and activity. From Ghaznin he proceeded into Garmsir, and from thence came into Ghur; ### [157.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157.5) and the Kashi people, who were the \[most\] refractory of Ghur, to the number of about 50,000 men, joined him. Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Mahmud, son of Muhammad-i-Sam, with about 500 horse, of the main portion of his army, and some 2000 or 3000 foot, came forth from Firuz-koh, and a fight took place between them, and defeat befell the Ghurians; and Malik Rukn-ud-Din, Mahmud-i-Iran Shah, discomfited, retired to Ghaznin, and again came into Garmsir. He was seized by the Khudawand-zadah, Saif-ud-Din, Timrani, and he brought him to the presence of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Mahmud, who directed that he should be imprisoned in the residence of the Amir-i-Hajib, ’Umr-i-Shalmati. On the day that Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Mahmud, was assassinated, the Turkish slaves of Mahmud raised a tumult, and despatched one, who was named Amir Mangbaras-i-Zard, to put Malik Rukn-ud-Din, Mahmud-i- Iran Shah, to death. The writer of these words, Siraj-i-Minhaj, states on this wise: I was in my eighteenth year in the year 607 H., and was present at the entrance \[gateway\] of the Sultan’s palace, in the capital city of Firuz-koh, standing looking on, as is the custom among youths, when this Amir Mangbaras-i-Zard came riding up with a wallet, with blood dropping from it, hanging from his arm. The head of Malik Rukn-ud-Din, Mahmud-i-Iran Shah—may he rest in peace!—he had placed in that wallet, and he entered into the Sultan’s palace with it. ### [157.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157.6) I now return to my relation again. In the reign of Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Utsuz-i-Husain, when Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, obtained an opportunity, he seized Amir ’Umar-i-Shalmati, saying, “Thou hast used thy endeavours \[in\] bringing about the murder of my son,” and at night he slew him. Early the next morning, when \[Sultan\] ’Ala-ud-Din, Utsuz, became aware of it, and the Amirs of Ghur demanded redress, ’Ala-ud-Din, Utsuz, issued commands for Malik ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, to be imprisoned the second time in the fortress of Balarwan of Gharjistan. The remaining account of him, respecting what befell him when he ascended the throne of Firuz-koh the second time, will be related at the end of this Section. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.157) · Pramāṇa