The Nāṣirī Generations 53.3

53.3

The birth of Ibrahim took place in the year of the conquest of Gurgan, in 424 H., in the province of Hirat, and that monarch had forty daughters and thirty-six sons. All the daughters were given in marriage to illustrious Sayyids, and dignified 'Ulama; and one of those princesses was married to the great-great-grandfather of [the author] Minhaj-i-Saraj, and this was the cause of the removal of the writer’s ancestors from Jurjan. Imam 'Abd-ul-Khalik, Jurjani, who lies asleep within the Sarae of Tahir-abad of Ghaznin, saw in a dream, whilst dwelling in Jurjan, in his youthful years, that an angel said unto him in the vision: "Arise, and proceed to Ghaznin, and seek a wife." When he awoke, he imagined that this dream might have been prompted by the devil; but, having dreamt the same dream three times successively, as therein commanded, he came to Ghaznin, and one of those daughters was bestowed in marriage upon him. That princess bore him a son, whom he named Ibrahim—Maulana, Minhaj-ud-Din, ’Usman-i-Ibrahim—upon whom be the mercy of the Almighty! He was the father of Maulana Minhaj-ud-Din, who was the father of Maulana Saraj-ud-Din, ’Ujubah-uz-zaman [the Wonder of His Age!], and he was the father of [the author] Minhaj-i-Saraj. Sultan Ibrahim was a monarch of felicitous and prosperous career, and his reign extended over a period of forty-two years, and his age [at his death] was sixty years. He died in the year 492 H.