As a poet he is known under the takhalluç of Fidáí. He was a man of the world and understood the spirit of the age. All his sons held subsequently posts of distinction.

His first son Murád got from Jahángír the title of Iltifát Khán. He was mar­ried to a daughter of 'Abdurrahím Khán Khánán. Murád's son, Mírzá Mukarram Khán, also distinguished himself; he died in 1080.

His third son Mírzá Hasan í Çafawí, a Hazár o pançadí under Jahángír, was Governor of Kúch; died 1059. Hasan's son, Mírzá Çafshikan, was Faujdár of Jessore in Bengal, retired, and died in 1073. Çafshikan's son, Sai fuddín i Çafawí, accepted the title of Khán under Aurangzeb.

10. Bairam Khan, the fifth in descent from Mír 'Alí Shukr Beg Bahárlü.

Bahárlü is the name of a principal clan of the Qaráqúilü Turks. During the time of their ascendancy, under Qará Yúsuf, and his sons Qará Sikandar and Mírzá Jahán Sháh, rulers of 'Iráq i 'Arab and A´zarbáiján, 'Alí Shukr Beg held Dainúr, Hamadán, and Kurdistán, “which tracts are still called the territory of 'Alí Shukr.” His son Pír 'Alí Beg stayed some time with Sulṭán Mahmúd Mírzá, and attacked afterwards the Governor of Shíráz, but was defeated. He was killed by some of the Amírs of Sulṭán Husain Mírzá. Pír Alí Beg's son, in the reign of Sháh Ismá'íl i Çafawí, left 'Iráq, settled in Badakhshán, and entered the service of Amír Khusrau Sháh (vide p. 311, l. 26) at Qunduz. He then joined, with his son Saif 'Alí Beg, Bábar's army as Amír Khusrau had been deposed. Saif 'Alí Beg is Bairám's father.

Bairám Khán was born at Badakhshán. After the death of his father he went to Balkh to study. When sixteen years old, he entered Humáyún's army, fought in the battle of Qanauj (10th Muharram, 947), and fled to the Rájah of Lak'hnor (Sambhal). Sher Sháh met Bairám in málwah, and tried to win him over. But Bairám fled from Burhánpúr with Abul Qásim, governor of Gwáliár, to Gujrát. They were surprised, on the road, by an ambassador of Sher Sháh who just returned from Gujrát. Abul Qásim, a man of imposing stature, being mistaken for Bairám, the latter stepped forward and said in a manly voice, “I am Bairám.” “No,” said Abul Qásim, “he is my attendant, and brave and faithful as he is, he wishes to sacrifice himself for me. So let him off.” Abul Qásim was then killed, and Bairám escaped to Sulṭán Mahmúd of Gujrát. Under the pretext of sailing for Makkah, Bairám embarked at Súrat for Sindh. He joined Humáyún on the 7th Muharram, 950, when the Emperor, after passing through the territory of Rajah Máldeo, was pressed by the Arghúns at Jon. On the march to Persia, he proved the most faithful attendant. The King of Persia also liked him, and made him a Khán. On Humayún's return, Bairám was sent on a mission to Prince Kámrán. When Humáyún marched to kábul, he took Qandahár by force and treachery from the Qizilbáshes, and making Bairám governor of the district, he informed the Sháh that he had done so as Bairám was ‘a faithful servant of both.’ Subsequently rumours regarding Bairám's duplicity reached Humáyún; but when in 961, the Emperor returned to Qandahár, the rumours turned out false.

The conquest of India may justly be ascribed to Bairám. He gained the battle of Máchhíwárah, and received Sambhal as jágír. In 963, he was appointed atálíq (guardian) of Prince Akbar, with whom he went to the Panjáb against Sikandar Khán. On Akbar's accession (2nd Rabí 'II, 963) at Kalánúr, he was appointed Wakíl and Khán Khánán, and received the title of Khán Bábá. On the second of Shawwál, 964, shortly after the surrender of Mánkoṭ, when Akbar returned to Láhor, an imperial elephant ran against Bairám's tent, and Bairám blamed Atgah Khán (No. 15), who never had been his friend, for this accident. The Atgah, after arrival at Láhor, went with his whole family to Bairám, and attested his innocence by an oath upon the Qorán.* In 965, Bairám married Salímah Sulṭán Begum (p. 309, note,) and soon after, the estrangement commenced between Akbar and him. Badáoní (II, p. 36) attributes the fall of Bairám to the illtreatment of Pír Muhammad (No. 20) and the influence of Adham Khán, and his mother Máhum Anagah (Akbar's nurse), Çiddiq Muhammad Khán, Shihábuddín Ahmad, &c., who effectually complained of the wretchedness of their jágírs, and the emptiness of the Treasury, whilst Bairám Khán's friends lived in affluence. The Ṭabaqát i Akbarí says that no less than twenty-five of Bairám's friends reached the dignity of Panjhazárís—rather a proof of Bairám's gift of selecting proper men. Bairám's fall is known from the Histories. “Akbar's trick resembles exactly that which Sulṭán Abú Sa'íd i Mughul adopted towards his minister Amír Chaubán. (Bad.)

On hearing the news that Akbar had assumed the reigns of the government, Bairám left A´grah, and sent his friends who had advised him to go to Akbar, to Court. He himself went under the pretext of going to Makkah to Mewát and Nágor, from where he returned his insignia, which reached Akbar at Jhujhar; for Akbar was on his way to the Panjáb, which Bairám, as it was said, wished to invade. The insignia were conferred on Pír Muhammad Khán, Bairám's old protégé; and he was ordered to see him embark for Makkah. Bairám felt much irritated at this; and finding the road to Gujrát occupied by Rájah Máldeo, his enemy, he proceeded to Bíkánír to his friend Kalyán Mal (No. 93). But unable to restrain himself any longer, he entrusted his property, his family, and his young son 'Abdurrahím (No. 29) to Sher Muham­mad Díwánah, his adopted son and jágír holder of Tabarhindah, and broke out in open rebellion. At Dípálpúr, on his way to the Panjáb, he heard that Díwánah had squandered the property left in his charge, had insulted his family, and had sent Muzaffar 'Alí (whom Bairám had despatched to Díwánah to settle matters) to Court a prisoner. Mortified at this, Bairám resolved to take Jálindhar. Akbar now moved against him; but before he reached him, he heard that Bairám had been defeated* by Atgah Khán (No. 15), Bairám fled to Fort Tilwárah on the banks of the Bayáh, followed by Akbar. Fighting ensued. In the very beginning, Sulṭán Husain Jaláir was killed; and when his head was brought to Bairám,* he was so sorry, that he sent to Akbar and asked for­giveness. This was granted, and Bairám, accompanied by the principal grandees, went to Akbar's tent, and was pardoned. After staying for two days longer with Mun'im Khán, he received a sum of money, and was sent to Makkah. The whole camp made a collection (chandogh). Hájí Muhammad of Sístán (No. 55) accompanied Bairám over Nágor to Patan (Nahrwálah) in Gujrát, where he was hospitably received by Músá Khán Fúládí, the governor. On Friday, 14th Jumáda I, 968, while alighting from a boat after a trip on the Sahaṉsa Lang Tank, Bairám was stabbed by a Lohání Afghán of the name of Mubárik, whose father had been killed in the battle of Máchhíwarah. “With an Alláhu Akbar on his lips, he died.” The motive of Mubárik Khán is said to have merely been revenge. Another reason is mentioned. The Kashmírí wife of Salím Sháh with her daughter had attached herself to Ḅairám's suite, in order to go to Hijáz, and it had been settled that Bairám's son should be betrothed to her, which annoyed the Afgháns. Some beggars lifted up Bairám's body, and took it to the tomb of Shaikh Husámuddín. Seventeen years later the body was interred in holy ground at Mashhad.