He was the son of Muḥtaram Beg, one of the well-known Amīrs of the emperor Humāyūn. He was a man of pleasing qualities, and was fond of poetry, and sometimes wrote it. The following couplet is his:—

“In the evening when thou throwest the veil from thy face
The sun, unable to bear the dazzling sight, sets.”

He was slain in Kashmīr in A.H. 996* (A.D. 1588) in the battle in which the imperial forces under Qāsim Khān, Mīr-i-Baḥr,* were defeated in a night attack made by Ya‘qūb, the son of Yūsuf Khān of Kashmīr.