Ascended the throne of Empire (after the murder of his father in Bámián)* with the consent of the Wazírs and Amírs, and with the object of avenging his father purposed to march towards Márí galah, but Abu Naṣr Aḥmád ibn Muḥammad ibn Abduṣ Ṣamad opposed his projected expedition and brought him to Ghaznín, whence he proceeded with a large army to attack his uncle the blind Amír Muḥammad. On arriving at Dípúr* he en­gaged in a severe battle with the Amír Muḥammad and thus ^31. passed the whole day till nightfall when both fell back upon their positions. The next day Sulán Maudúd induced the Amír Saiyyid Manṣúr who was one of the trusted (generals) of the Amír Muḥammad to side with him, and engaging in battle took prisoners the Amír Muḥammad and his son Aḥmád and put them all to death. The Amír Maudúd founded there a city which he named Fatḥábád.* This victory was gained in the month Sha‘bán of the year 432 H., or according to another account in the year 434 H.* And in the year 433 H. being angry with Khwája Aḥmad ibn Abduṣ Ṣamad he imprisoned him in Ghaznín where he died in prison, and in this same year he sent Abú Naṣr Muḥam-mad bin Aḥmad towards Hindustán to fight with Námí ibn Muḥammad* and Námí was killed in the course of that war. And in the year 434 H. Artagín at the order of the Sulán proceeded with an army to Tabaristán against Dá‘úd* the Turko-mán, and having lost in battle a large number of his men came to Balkh and established the coinage and proclamation of sovereignty in the name of the Amír Maudúd. Afterwards when the Turko-máns attacked him several times in force not being able to con­tend with them, he quitted Balkh and came to Ghaznín. Then in the year 435 H. Amír Maudúd imprisoned Abú ‘Alí the Kotwál of Ghaznín for a time, but eventually appointed him as the Díwán of the kingdom and Kotwál of Ghaznín, and imprisoned Yasúrí ibn Iyamghúr the Díwán, till at length he died in confinement; he also punished Altigín* and in the year 436 H. Khwája Táhir who had succeeded Khwája Aḥmad as Wazír, died, and was succeeded by Khwája Imám Abul Fatḥ ‘Abdur Razzáq.* In this same year he sent Tughral Ḥájib in the direction of Bust, who took prisoner Abú Manṣúr Zangí,* the brother of Abul Faẓl and brought him to Ghaznín, he then departed for Seistán and having ^32. engaged in conflict with the Turkománs at the Ribá Amír,* put most of them to death after which victory he went to Garm Sír, where he put to death the Turkománs of that district who were known as Red-caps* and took many of them prisoner, and brought them to Ghaznín.

In the year 438 H., he sent Tughral to Takínábád who on arrival there revolted. Accordingly Alí bin Rabí‘ was nominated to proceed thither and Tughral fled with a few followers. Alí plundered his army, and having captured some of them brought them to Ghaznín. In the year 439 H. the Amír Qaẓdár raised a rebellion* and suffered defeat at the hands of Hájib Buzurg Bártagín* and after a time tendered his submission.

And in the year 440 H. having conferred upon his two sons Abul Qásim Maḥmúd and Manṣúr on the same day robes of honour and the drum and ensigns of commission sent one of them towards Lahore and the other towards Parshúr* and he sent Abú Alí Hasan Kotwál of Ghaznín to Hindustán to punish the rebels there, and when Ḥasan returned to Ghaznín after having done good service Maudúd made him over to Mírak ibn Ḥasan with orders to im­prison him. He died in prison. As a sequel to this, Mírak ibn Ḥasan the Vakíl who had murdered Abú ‘Alí Ḥasan without the orders of Amír Maudúd and had kept it secret, incited the King to proceed to Kábul so that that misdeed of his might remain concealed. When the Amír Maudúd reached the fortress of Siálkoṭ* he was attacked with colic* and was forced to return to Ghaznín, and ^33. ordered Mírak to release Abú Alí Kotwál. He accordingly prayed for a week's respite, and in the interim Amír Maudúd departed this life on the 24th of Rajab A. H. 441, having reigned nearly nine years. The Lubbu-t-Tawáríkh* states that Sulán Maudúd asked in marriage the daughter of Chughz* Beg Saljúqí, by whom he had a son whom he named Mas‘úd, that he reigned seven years, and that in the month of Rajab 441 he attempted to go to Khorásán to visit Chughz Beg, but died on the journey of colic.