“Come, for the standard of King Manṣúr has arrived;
The good tidings of conquest and victory have reached the Sun and
the Moon.”

The deposed ruler Zaynu'l-'Ábidín (who was subsequently blinded) had accepted the suzerainty of Tímúr, received his ambassador, Quṭbu'd-Dín, and inserted his name in the khuṭba and on the coins, and Tímúr himself entered Shíráz in 789/1387, some time before Zaynu'l- The alleged meeting between Tímúr and Ḥáfiẓ 'Ábidín's deposition. It must have been at this time, if at all, that the meeting between Tímúr and Ḥáfiẓ, described by Dawlatsháh * and those who follow him in connection with Tímúr's second entry into Shíráz in 795/1393, three or four years after the poet's death, actually took place. The story, which is more celebrated than authentic, has been already given on pp. 188-189 supra. Dawlatsháh, with characteristic inaccuracy, first gives the date of this supposed meeting as Date of the death of Ḥáfiẓ 795/1393, and then states (incorrectly) that Ḥáfiẓ died in the previous year, 794/1392. As a matter of fact he died in 791/1389, or possibly in the following year. The former date is that given by the chronogram on his tombstone, so ingeniously paraphrased by Herman Bicknell * as follows:

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