قتل شهاب الدين الغوري

On the first night of Sha'ban 602 AH Shihab al-Din al-Ghuri, ruler of Ghazna and part of Khurasan, was killed in a house called Dimik, returning from Lahore, at the time of the night prayer. ¹

Ibn al-Athir says that a group of the Kukuriyya stayed with his army, determined to kill him, because of the killing, captivity and enslavement they had suffered at his hands. When his companions had scattered from him and he was left alone in his tent, they killed some of the guards at the door of his pavilion. His companions rose up and left their posts, and the Kukuriyya entered upon him and struck him twenty-two times with knives, and found him at his prayer mat, prostrating. Ibn al-Athir also gives an account that the Isma'ilis killed him, fearing that he would go out to Khurasan. ¹

The amirs gathered at the house of his vizier Mu'ayyid al-Mulk and swore to guard the treasury. The mamluks rose against Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, because it was said that he had brought those who killed their master; he fled and escaped. The army disagreed: the Ghuriyya leaned toward Baha' al-Din Sam, lord of Bamiyan, and the Turks toward Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud. He was buried in the madrasa he had founded in Ghazna on the twenty-second of Sha'ban. ¹