The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.84

v3.c24.84

Ahmad Aswad, who had been entitled Malik Ahmad, acquired great influence over Hasan Shāh, who, though less apathetic than his father, displayed little devotion to business. He sent an expedition under Malik Yārī Bhat to co-operate with the troops of the raja of Jammū in ravaging the northern districts of the Punjab, where Tātār Khān Lodī represented the military oligarchy over which his cousin Buhlūl presided at Delhi. The town of Siālkot was sacked, and Malik Yārī Bhat returned with as much plunder as enabled him to form a faction of his own, and when Hasan Shāh required tutors and guardians for his two young sons he confided Muhammad, the elder, to Malik Naurūz, son of Malik Ahmad, and Husain, the younger, to Yārī Bhat. This impartiality encouraged both factions, and their passions rose to such a height that Malik Ahmad forfeited his master's favour by permitting his troops to become embroiled, in the royal presence, with those of his rival, and was thrown into prison, where he presently died.