The Nāṣirī Generations 261.1.2

261.1.2

He [Malik Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Khar-post] was constantly occupied in organizing the army, and in the equipment of his train ; and those grandees and distinguished men of Khwarazm, who had become severed from the service of Sultan Muhammad, were coming to him at Ghaznin. Shihab-ud-Din-i-Alb, the Sarakhsi, who was the Wazir of the kingdoms of Ghaznin and Ghur on the part of the Khwarazm Shah, came to Ghaznin. There was [also] at Ghaznin a Kot-wal [Seneschal], whom they used to style Salah-ud-Din, who was of the kasbah [town] of Gird-gan, in conformity with the command of Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah. Malik Khan of Hirat, who, at the time of flying [from thence], had proceeded towards Sistan, when the hot season set in, turned his face towards Ghaznin, and news from Khurasan was received respecting Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, Mang-barni, that he was coming to Ghaznin. Shihab-ud-Din-i-Alb, the Wazir, in secret, had now devised a treacherous plot with Salah-ud-Din, the Kot-wal, and had prepared a banquet and invited Malik Muhammad-i-Khar-post to this convivial entertainment, and Salah-ud-Din, the Kot-wal, assassinated that Malik-i-Ghazi with a knife; and the army which he had gathered together became dispersed.