The Nāṣirī Generations 292.6

292.6

After Hulaku had sacked Baghdad, and had caused the people to be martyred, he made over those that remained to the Wazir, and assigned him a Mughal Shahnah [Intendant] that he might cause them to be collected together. When the accursed Wazir returned again to Baghdad, and had collected some of the people, and located them therein, some of the servants of the Khalifah, who had retired into the Wadi and remained alive, to the number of about 10,000 horsemen, collected, and, suddenly, and unexpectedly, crossed the Dijlah and attacked Baghdad, captured the accursed Wazir, and the Shahnah [Intendant] whom the infidel Mughals had installed there, and cut them both to pieces. As many of the dependents of those accursed ones as fell into their hands, and the whole of the Christians of Baghdad they seized, and despatched all of them to hell, and wreaked as much vengeance upon those accursed ones as they [the Musalmans] were capable of, and withdrew with all speed. When information of this reached the camp of the Mughals, a body of cavalry was despatched to Baghdad. The remnant of the Musalmans had departed, and with expedition; and not one among those holy-warriors of Islam was taken.