The Nāṣirī Generations 234: XVI. MALIK SAIF-UD-DIN, BAT KHAN-I-I-BAK, THE KHITA-I.

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Malik Saif-ud-Din, Bat Khan-i-I-bak, the Khita-i, was a person of very excellent qualities, gentle, humble, and of exemplary piety, and, in skill and warlike accomplishments, had become a master, and for manliness and sagacity was famed.
The august Sultan [I-yal-timish] purchased him in the beginning of his reign, and he became Sar Jama-dar [Head Keeper of the Wardrobe]. Subsequently, in the reign of Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Mas’ud Shah, he became Sar-i-Jan-dar [Head of the Jan-dars] and Kuhram and Samanah became his fief. Afterwards he obtained the fief of Baran, and was appointed to proceed at the head of [a body of] forces for the purpose of taking possession of the territory of Uchchah and Multan. During that expedition, one of his sons, who, at the very outset of his youth, had become a proficient in manliness and skill, together with his horse, was drowned in the river Sind.
Some time after his return from thence, during the reign of the Sultan of Sultans, Nasir-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, Malik Saif-ud-Din, I-bak, the Khita-i, became Wakil-i-Dar [Representative in Dar-bar], and, in the service of the Sublime Court, performed distinguished services.
He served for a considerable time during the Sultan's reign, and during the expedition to Santur he suddenly sustained a fall from his horse and was killed. The mercy and pardon of the Almighty be upon him!