The Nāṣirī Generations 170.3.8

170.3.8

When the august Sultan, Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad, son of [Baha-ud-Din] Sam, departed this life in the city of Hirat, the victorious Sultan, Mu'izz-ud-Din, Muhammad, son of Sam, was on the frontiers of Tus, and Sarakhs, of Khurasan, and, with the purpose of performing the mourning ceremonies for his brother, he came to Badghais of Hirat. Having performed the mourning rites, he nominated different Maliks to the several fiefs of the kingdom of Ghur. He gave the city of Bust, and the districts of Farah and Isfizar to his late brother’s son, Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Mahmud, son of Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, and to Malik Ziya-ud-Din, the Pearl of Ghur, who was uncle’s son of both the Sultans, and the son-in-law of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, the territory of Ghur and Garmsir, namely, the throne of Firuz-koh, and the town and territory of Dawar and also presented him with two elephants. To Malik Nasir-ud-Din, Alb-[Arsalan]-i-Ghazi, son of Kazil Arsalan, Saljuki, who was the son of a sister of the two Sultans, Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din gave the city of Hirat [and its dependencies], after which he returned again to Ghaznin, and brought along with him to that city some of the Amirs and Maliks of Ghur to serve under him, and commenced his preparations for an expedition against Khwarazm.