Afterwards the body was removed to Mashhad by the exertions of Husain Qulī Khān* the Khān Jahān and buried there. On the occasion of this strange catastrophe the vagabonds of Pattan plun­dered Bairām Khān's camp, and left nothing undone in the way of insolence. The horror of the murder produced great affliction among the people of the deceased. Muḥammad Amīn Dīwāna, Bābāī Zambūr and Khwāja Mulk brought away 'Abdu-r-rahīm, Bai­rām Khān's heir, and who was then four years old, from the scene of the catastrophe along with his mother and some servants, and went off to Aḥmadābād. A crowd of Afghan wretches quickly followed them, and the unfortunate sufferers had to fight the whole of their way through to Aḥmadābād. They stayed there four months, and then Muḥammad Amīn Dīwāna and some servants took the proper course and set off for the mankind-protecting court, taking with them Abdu-r-raḥīm. Before they had kissed the threshold, news of Bairām Khān's death had reached H.M. the Shāhinshāh, and a gracious order was issued for the attendance of 'Abdu-r-raḥīm. This order reached Jālor* at the time of friendlessness and orphanage and was healing for broken hopes. The purport of the order was that he should come to Court and be reared by the Shāhinshāh. Several true men such as Bābāī Zambūr, Yādgār Ḥusain,* brought that new fruit of loyality to Agra in the middle of the sixth divine year, corresponding to the beginning of 969, September 1561, and sub­mitted him to the testing eye of H.M., and exalted him by pros­tration on the threshold. H.M. the Shāhinshāh, in spite of evil-speakers and evil-thinkers received that child of lustrous forehead, in the lines of whose brow there were the notes of nobleness and truth, with inborn kindness, and reared him in the shadow of his own supervision. In a short time he was distinguished by the title of Mīrzā Khān. Day by day his good manners and nobility of nature revealed themselves, and he attained to lofty eminence. He was raised to the very highest rank, that of Khān-Khānān. An account of this will be given in its proper place.

In the end of this year, beginning in fortune and ending in joy, the cupola of chastity Māham Anaga, who was linked to H.M. the Shāhinshāh by real and ostensible ties, and to whose knowledge and perspicacity the bridle for opening and closing all affairs, political and financial, was, through the blessings of the sublime regard to business, entrusted at this time, formed the design of marrying* her elder son Bāqī Muhammad Khān. As one daughter of Bāqī Khān Baqlānī had been married to Adham Khān, she wished that the other daughter should be united to her elder son and that she might prepare a delightful banquet in view of the holy advent (of Akbar). With this design she obtained leave from the sublime Court, and engaged herself in arranging this joy-giving festival. The marriage-feast was adjusted according to the rules of magnificent spirits, and alert and skilful attendants on the sublime threshold applied their arts to the fitting up of the premises and to the disposition of the entertainment. At the petition of this fortunate and approved ser­vant H.M. the Shāhinshāh in his abundant grace and favour bestowed the light of his presence on that picture-gallery of delight. Every day there was a new arrangement of the festival, and all and sundry partook of excellence and joy.

Among the melancholy occurrences of this time was the appearance in H.M. the Shāhinshāh's holy person of some obstruction* (abra cand) from pustules. The sincere loyalists and the superficial cognoscenti were grieved, but it was not hidden from the acute and far-sighted that the great Physician, upon whose will depend health and sickness, and of whose justice and equity, sorrow and joy are the manifestations, doth, for the purposes of prosperity and wisdom, make that servant whom he shall raise to high rank and bring to the garden of eternal joy, and make successful both in temporal and in spiritual matters, subject in the first instance to things repugnant in their nature. The design of this is to increase watchfulness, or to avert the evil eye, so that in recompense therefore he may ascend on the steps of desires and be filled with eternal joy. In accord with this wise design, the equable body of H.M. the Shāhinshāh became at this time somewhat heated, and his holy temperament declined from the centre of equability. What shall I say of how the hearts of the faithful bled, and how their livers melted? The shopkeeper spirits of business-men became disturbed. After some days some pimples, which were like rue* to the disease, came out on the surface of the skin, and Almighty God decreed, as was fitting, the preser­vation of that great one whom He himself had formed. In a short space of time that commotion died down, and that note of loss was erased, and there was complete health. The sick world became well, and the troubled minds of the good were refreshed. For the sake of thanksgiving for the Divine bounty, there were gifts and largesses. Want departed from the country of the poor, longing subsided in the hearts of the supplicants. The imperial servants showered gifts in proportion to their condition and loyalty, and were bestowers of joy on mankind.