"The king was freed from his people and they from their king". On whose death did Badauni comment thus?

1. The question asks about the source of the comment: "The king was freed from his people and they from their king". It also asks on whose death this comment was made. 2. This famous remark is attributed to the historian Abdul Qadir Badauni. 3. Badauni made this comment upon the death of Sultan Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq in 1351. 4. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq's reign was marked by ambitious and often disastrous experiments (like the transfer of the capital to Daulatabad, introduction of token currency) which caused widespread suffering and rebellion among his subjects. His relationship with the populace and the nobility was fraught with conflict. 5. Badauni's comment reflects the tumultuous nature of his reign and the sense of relief, perhaps mutual, felt at its end.