ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND.

NEW SERIES.

THE RAUZAT-US-SAFA;

OR,

GARDEN OF PURITY.

CONTAINING

The Libes of Abu Bakr, D’mar, D’thmân, and A’li, the

four immediate successors of Muhammad the Apostle.

MUHAMMAD BIN KHÂVENDSHÂH BIN MAHMÛD,

COMMONLY CALLED MIRKHOND.

PART II.

VOLUME THIRD.

Translated from the Original Persian

E. REHATSEK,

AND

EDITED BY

F. F. ARBUTHNOT, M.R.A.S.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY;

AND SOLD AT

22, ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON.

1894.