Akbar took charge of 'Abdurrahím, Bairám's son (vide No. 29), and married soon after Salímah Sulṭán Begum, Bairám's widow.

For <Arabic> Bairám, we often find the spelling <Arabic> Bairam. Firishtah generally calls him Bairám Khán Turkmán. Bairám was a Shí'ah, and a poet of no mean pre­tensions (vide Badáoní III, p. 190).

11. Mun'im Khan, son of Bairam* Beg.

Nothing appears to be known of the circumstances of his father. Mun'im Khán was a grandee of Humáyún's Court, as also his brother Fazíl Beg. When Humáyún, on his flight to Persia, was hard pressed by Mírzá Sháh Husain of T'hat'hah, one grandee after another went quietly away. M. and Fazil Beg also were on the point of doing so, when Humáyún made them prisoners, as he had done from motives of prudence and policy with several other nobles. M. did not, however, accompany Humáyún to Persia. He rejoined him immediately on his return, and rose at once to high dignity. He rejected the governorship of Qandahár, which was given to Bairám Khán. In 961, he was appointed atálíq of Prince Akbar; and when Humáyún invaded India, M. was left as governor of Kábul in charge of Mírzá Muhammad Hakím, Akbar's brother, then about a year old. In Kábul M. remained till Bairám fell into disgrace. He joined Akbar, in Zí Hajjah, 967, at Lúdhiánah, where Akbar encamped on his expedition against Bairám. M. was then appointed Khán Khánán and Vakíl.

In the seventh year of Akbar's reign, when Adham Khán (No. 19) killed Atgah Khán (No. 15), Mun'im who had been the instigator, fled twice from Court, but was caught the second time in Saror (Sirkár of Qanauj) by the collector of the district, and was brought in by Sayyid Mahmúd Khán of Bárha (No. 75). Akbar restored M. to his former honors.

Mun'im Khán's son, Ghaní Khán, whom his father had left in charge of Kábul, caused disturbances from want of tact. Máh Jújak Begum, Prince M. Muhammad Hakím's mother, advised by Fazíl Beg and his son 'Abulfath, who hated Ghaní Khán, closed the doors of Kábul, when Ghaní Khán was once temporarily absent at Fálíz. Ghaní Khán, not finding adherents to oppose her, went to India. Máh Jújak Begum then appointed Fazíl Beg as Vakíl and 'Abulfath as Náib; but being dissatisfied with them, she killed them both, at the advice of Sháh Walí, one of her nobles. On account of these disturbances, Akbar, in the eighth year, sent M. to Kábul. Thinking he could rely on the Kábulís, M. left before his contingent was quite ready. He was attacked near Jalálábád by Máh Jújak Begum (who in the meantime had killed Sháh Walí and had taken up, apparently criminally, with Haidar Qásim Koh-bar, whom she had made Vakíl) and defeated. M. fled to the Ghak'hars, and ashamed and hesitating he joined Akbar, who appointed him Commander of the Fort of A´grah.

In the 12th year, after the defeat and death of Khán Zamán (No. 13), M. was appointed to his jágírs in Jaunpúr (Bad. II, 101), and then concluded peace with Sulaimán Kararání of Bengal, who promised to read the Khuṭbah and strike coins in Akbar's name.

In 982, Akbar, at M.'s request, went with a flotilla from A´grah to Bihár, and took Hájípúr and Patna from Dáúd, Sulaimán's son. M. was then appointed Governor of Bihár, and was ordered to follow Dáúd into Bengal. M. moved to Ṭánḍah (opposite Gaur, on the right side of the Ganges) to settle political matters, and left the pursuit to Muhammad Qulí Khán Barlás (No. 31). But as the latter soon after died, M., at the advice of Todar Mall, left Ṭánḍah, and followed up Dáúd, who after his defeat at <Arabic>, submitted at Katak. In Çafar 983, M. returned, and though his army had terribly suffered from epidemics on the march through Southern Bengal, he quartered them against the advice of his friends at Gaur, where M. soon after died of fever.

The great bridge of Jaunpúr was built by Mun'im Khán in 975. Its táríkh is <Arabic>. M.'s son, Ghaní Khán, went to 'A´dilsháh of Bíjápúr, where he died.

12. Tardi Beg Khan, of Turkistán.

A noble of Humáyún's Court. After the conquest of Gujrát, he was made Governor of Champánír (Páwangaṛh). On Mírzá 'Askarí's defeat by Sulṭán Bahádur, Tardí Beg also succumbed to him and retreated to Humáyún. During the emperor's flight from India, Tardí Beg distinguished himself as one of the most faithless* com­panions. When passing through the territory of Rájah Máldeo, he even refused Humáyún a horse, and at Amarkoṭ, he declined to assist the emperor with a portion of the wealth he had collected while at court. Hence Rái Parsád advised H. to imprison some of his nobles and take away part of their property by force. H. however returned afterwards most of it. In Qandahár, Tardí Beg left the emperor and joined Mírzá 'Askarí. But Mírzá 'Askarí put most of them on the rack, and forced also Tardí Beg to give him a large sum as ransom.

On Humáyún's return from 'Iráq, Tardí Beg asked pardon for his former faithlessness, was restored to favour, and was sent, in 955, after the death of Mírzá Ulugh Beg, son of Mírzá Sulṭán, to Dáwar. During the conquest of India, T. dis­tinguished himself and received Mewát as jágír. In 963, when Humáyún died (7th Rabí' I), T. read the Khuṭbah in Akbar's name, and sent the crown-insignia with M. Abúl Qásim, son of Prince Kámrán, to Akbar in the Panjáb. Akbar made T. a Commander of Five Thousand and appointed him governor of Dihlí. T. drove away Hájí Khán, an officer of Sher Sháh, from Narnaul. On Hemú's approach, after some unsuccessful fighting, T. too rashly evacuated Dihlí, and joined Akbar at Sarhind. Bairám Khán, who did not like T. from envy and sectarian motives, accused him, and obtaining from Akbar “a sort of permission” (Bad. II, 14) had him murdered (end of 963). Akbar was displeased. Bairám's hasty act was one of the chief causes of the distrust with which the Chagatái nobles looked upon him. Tardí Beg was a Sunní.

13. Kha´n Zama´n i Shaiba´ni´.

His father Haidar Sulṭán Uzbak i Shaibání had been made an Amír in the Jám war with the Qizilbáshes. When Humáyún returned from Persia, Haidar joined him, together with his two sons 'Alí Qulí Khán [Khán Zamán] and Bahádur Khán (No. 22,) and distinguished himself in the conquest of Qandahár. On the march to Kábul, an epidemic broke out in Humáyún's camp, during which Haidar Sulṭán died.