The Nāṣirī Generations 52: IX. FARRUKH-ZAD, SON OF MAS’UD.

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At the time that Almighty God brought down upon Tughril the just reward of his crimes, and delivered the people from his unbearable tyranny, and unlimited oppression, two princes of the Mas’udi family remained alive immured within the fortress of Bar-ghund — one Ibrahim, the other Farrukh-zad.
The accursed Tughril had despatched a party to that fortress for the purpose of putting them to death but the seneschal, who was stationed therein, had taken one day to consider the matter, and had kept the party in question without the gates, under the agreement that they should be admitted on the following day, to carry out that wicked mandate. Suddenly, carrier pigeons arrived there, bearing the news of Tughril the Accursed having been killed.
After that execrable [man] was slain at Ghaznin, by the hand of Nush-Tigin, the chief men of the empire, and the Maliks, and Hajibs, sought for a sovereign. It was found that two princes still remained, immured within the walls of the fortress of Bar-ghund; so all of them set out towards that fortress, and desired to raise Ibrahim to the throne: but his august frame had become overpowered by infirmity, and, as delay was impossible, they brought forth Farrukh-zad, and congratulated him on his accession to the sovereignty, on Saturday, the 9th of the month Zi-l-Ka’dah, 344 H.
Sultan Farrukh-zad was a man of mild and amiable disposition, and just. As soon as he ascended the throne, he remitted the revenue of the territory of Zawulistan, which had become ruined through [the levying of] heavy contributions in taxes and supplies, so that it became prosperous again. He brought under his control the frontier provinces of the empire, and governed his people with benevolence. He reigned seven years when, suddenly, he was carried off by colic in the year 451 H., at the age of thirty-four years.