The Nāṣirī Generations 294.6

294.6

One among the comers from those parts has stated to occasions, hostilities arose between ’Izz-ud-Din, I-bak, and the Malik-un-Nasir of Sham. After reigning seven years, ’Izz-ud-Din, I-bak, had returned home one day from playing at the game of Chaugan, and on reaching his palace ordered the bath to be prepared. He entered it, and, while he was at the bath, Muhsin-i-Jauhari, one of his retainers, accompanied by a slave, entered, and slew him. This happened on the night of Wednesday [our Tuesday night], the 11th of Muharram — but some say the 25th, and others that it was the 25th of Rabi’-ul-Awwal — 655 H. The following day, Wednesday, the assassins were taken and hung. ’Izz-ud-Din, I-bak, was a man of talent and valour, but a blood-shedder. The Amirs and Ministers of the kingdom of Misr, on this, set up I-bak's son, the Malik-ul-Mansur, Nur-ud-Din, ’Ali ; but in Rabi’-ul-Akhir, 655 H., Saif-ud-Din, Kuduz, a Turk-man, became his Ata-Bak, and Amir-ul-Umra, and soon after set aside Nur-ud-Din, ’Ali, and under the title of Malik-ul-Muzaffar, usurped the sovereignty of Misr for himself.