The Nāṣirī Generations 259.1

259.1

After the Nu-in, Yamah, and the Bahadur Sahudah, with 60,000 horse, passed through Khurasan, and proceeded towards ’Irak, disturbance and tumult arose in Khurasan, and sedition manifested itself. Each one of the Maliks, in accordance with the commands of Sultan Muhammad, was in some part or other, and they put the fortresses in repair, and surrounded the cities with ditches, and caused preparations to be made for war, and to defend the fortresses as far as lay in their power; for every part was entrusted, by the Sultan, to the charge of some Malik, who had been [previously] appointed thereunto. The fortress of Tirmid the Sultan entrusted to the [contingent] troops of Sistan, the chief of whom was the Amir, Zangi-i-Abi-Hafs; and the Sarhang [standard-bearer] Sam, and the Pahlawan [champion], Arsiah, he despatched to the fortress of Walwalij of Tukharistan, the length and breadth of which fortress is about four farsangs [leagues]. The fortress of Bamian he gave to Amir ’Umr, the Bawardi; and likewise commanded Malik Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Muhammad, son of Ali-i-Khar-post [the ass-skinned], the Ghuri, to proceed from Burshor [Purshor — Peshawar?] for the purpose of securing the city of Ghaznin and to defend that territory.