The Nāṣirī Generations 253.3

253.3

A few writers, however, including Abu-Sa’id-i-’Abd-ul-Haiy, son of Zuhak, a native of Gardez in Ranman of the present Afghanistan — begin somewhat earlier, and, accordingly, I shall follow them. On reaching the time of the Bughra Khan, Abu Musa-i-Harun, son of Suliman, the different accounts agree. The Gardezi wrote about 441 H., in the reign of Sultan ’Abd-ur-Rashid, son of Mahmud-i-Sabuk-Tigin, the seventh of the Sultans of Ghaznin, and that writer is, therefore, a little before Abu-l-Fazl-i-Baihaki, who wrote in the reign of Farrukh-zad, the eighth of the Sultans of that line, and who died in 470 H. I. Satuk-Kujah, written Satuk by one author, was an infidel, and the ruler of Turkistan; but, from a remarkable dream which he had one night, he, in the morning, became a convert to Islam, and induced his people to embrace it also. This happened probably about the year 315 or 320 H., but no dates are given. In Alfi he is called Satuk-Karachar.