He was one of those sages whose knowledge is always at com­mand and ready for use. He possessed a naturally acute intellect and intuitive intelligence. In knowledge of practical theology and the first principles of that science, and of Arabic, he had no equal. He wrote a treatise on syntax which he named after one of the nobles, Qubī by name,* and which contained some evidence of its author's industry.

I went to Lakhnau at the time when Ḥusain Khān was gover­nor ⁸⁶ of that place,* and met the Miyāṅ. Among his works there were two books which struck me as being wonderful. One was a treatise, written in columns, which covered a piece of paper capable of containing fourteen lines of ordinary writing, and as broad as it was long. In this treatise the leading principles and problems of fourteen different branches of knowledge were suc­cinctly set forth. The other consisted of four Maqāmahs from a treatise in which the style of the Maqāmātu-'l-Ḥarīrī* was imitated, which treatise he entitled Qīūn.* He told me that he had composed other works besides these. His cousins, however, said that the treatise on fourteen different branches of knowledge and the Qīūn were written by Ḥakīm Zibriqī,* who, having come to Jaunpūr, employed himself in collating books, together with the well-known* Qaẓī Shihābu-'d-dīn. These works, they said, found their way, in the course of time, to the library of Shaikh A‘am of Lakhnau, who obtained the title of ānī-yi-Imām-i-A‘am ,* and thence came into the hands of Miyāṅ Ilāhdād, who was a descendant of Shaikh A‘am;—and God knows the truth of the matter!