The Nāṣirī Generations 29.4

29.4

When Bu 'Ali-i-Simjur became aware that Amir Nuh and Sabuk-Tigin had set out towards Hirat, he left Nisapur and proceeded thither. Amir Nuh, on the day of the engagement between the two armies, gave up the command of the troops to Amir Sabuk-Tigin. When their forces encountered each other before the gate of Hirat, and, during the engagement, Dara, son of Kabus, son of Washm-gir, who was on the side of Abu ’Ali, deserted and went over to the other side; and Abu 'Ali was overthrown, through the misfortune of his having acceded, as well as most of the chief men of that territory, and his army also, to the exhortations of the Karamitahs, and having become contaminated with that heresy. He had founded a Masjid-i-Jami’, or great masjid, at Nishapur, intending, when it should be completely finished, that the Khutbah should be read there for Mustansir-i-Misri. This victory was gained by Amir Nuh, son of Mansur, in the middle of the month of Ramazan, in the year 384 H.; and, after this success, the affairs of the province of Hirat were arranged by Amir Nuh, and he proceeded to the territory of Nishapur.