 He lost his father Bazir Arslan Khan when he was 6.His uncle married his mother in levirate marriage, thus Satuq became a step-son to Oghulchak Khan.According to an account by Munajjimbashi, based on a tradition ultimately stemming from a Karakhanid emissary in 1105 to the Abbasid court, he was the first of the khans to convert to Islam under the influence of a faqīh from Bukhara.