[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 280.4 # The Nāṣirī Generations 280.4 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 280.4 - **Language:** English ### [280.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.280.4) When Shaikh Mahmud-i-Atash-Kh’ar arrived at that place, the guards beheld a person, a stranger to the usages of the world, and, in outward appearance, like a maniac; and they seized him \[saying\]: “Thou art a fida-i.” Shaikh Mahmud replied: “Aye! I am a fida-i;” and, notwithstanding they importuned him, saying: “Who art thou? Say!” his reply was: “I am what ye have said: a fida-i.” As he had confessed this thing, they brought him before Chaghatae. Mas’ud Bak, who was the Jumlat-ul-Mulk \[Minister of State\] of Chaghatae, recognized Shaikh Mahmud, but, through fear of Chaghatae, was unable to say anything, or mention Shaikh Mahmud’s condition, or his eminence. Chaghatae demanded of Shaikh Mahmud: “Who art thou?” He replied: “That same fida-i I am.” Chaghatae said: “What shall I do with thee? What doth it behove to do unto thee?” Shaikh Mahmud answered: “Command that they rain arrows upon me, that I may be freed \[from life\].” Chaghatae commanded so that they killed him with volleys of arrows. Some days after Shaikh Mahmud was received into the Almighty's mercy, Chaghatae was in the act of discharging a recoiling arrow, in a hunting-ground, at the prey, when, verily, it entered the back of that accursed one, and he went to hell; and God's people, particularly the people of Islam, were delivered from his malevolence. - [Previous: 280.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.280.3) - [Next: 281.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.281.1) - [Up: 280](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.280) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.280.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.280.4) · Pramāṇa