386. Muqi´m Kha´n, son of Shujá'at Khán (No. 51). Vide p. 371.
He served in the siege of A´sír, and in the 46th year in the Dak'hin. Akbarn., III., 825, 865.
387. La´lah, son of Rájah Bír Baṛ (No. 85).
The Akbarnámah (III., 865) calls him the eldest son of Rájah Bír Baṛ. Vide p. 405.
388. Yu´suf i Kashmi´ri´. Vide No. 228.
389. Habi´ Yasa´wul.
Habí is an abbreviation of Habíb.
390. Haidar Dost, brother of Qásim 'Alí Khán (No. 187).
391. Dost Muhammad, son of Bábá Dost.
392. Sha´hrukh Dantúrí.
Dantúr, Dhantúr, or Dhantáwar, is a district near the Kashmír* frontier. The Tuzuk (pp. 287, 291) says that Dhantúr, during Akbar's reign, was ruled over by Sháhrukh, but now (in 1029, 14th year of Jahángír) by his son Bahádur. Bahádur was a commander of 200, 100 horse, and served under Mahábat in Bangash.
393. Sher Muhammad.
He served in 993 in the Dak'hin. Akbarn., III., 472.
A Sher Muhammad Díwánah was mentioned on p. 316. He had at first been in the service of Khwájah Mu'azzam, brother of Akbar's mother. When Akbar, in the 10th year, was at Jaunpúr, engaged with the rebellion of Khán Zamán, Sher Muhammad Díwánah plundered several places in Parganah Samánah, the faujdár of which was Mullá Núruddín Tarkhán. The Mullá had left his vakíl Mír Dost Muhammad in Samánah. Sh. M. D. invited him and treacherously murdered him at the feast. Plundering several places he went to Máler, when he was surprised by the Mullá at a place called Dhanúrí in Samánah. Sh. M. D. fled, but his horse ran against the trunk of a tree and threw him down. He was captured and executed, A. H. 973. Akbarn., II., 332.
394. 'Ali´ Quli´ [Beg, Istajlú, Sher Afkan Khán].
He was the safarchí, or table-attendant, of Ismá'íl II, king of Persia. After his death, he went over Qandahár to India, and met at Multán the KhánKhánán (No. 29), who was on his march to T'hat'hah. At his recommendation, he received a mançab. During the war he rendered distinguished services. Soon after his arrival at court, Akbar married him to Mihrunnisá (the future Núr Jahán), daughter of Mírzá Ghiás Ṭahrání (No. 319). Ghiás's wife had accession to the imperial harem, and was on her visits often accompanied by her daughter. Prince Salím saw her, and fell in love with her, and Akbar, to avoid scandal, married her quickly to 'Alí Qulí.
'Alí Qulí accompanied the prince on his expedition against the Ráná, and received from him the title of Sher Afkan Khán. On his accession, he received Bardwán as tuyúl. His hostile encounter with Shaikh Khúbú (No. 275) was related on p. 496. The Maásir says that when he went to meet the Çúbahdár, his mother put a helmet (dubalghah) on his head, and said, “My son make his mother cry, before he makes your mother weep,” then kissed him, and let him go.
'Alí Q.'s daughter, who, like her mother, had the name of Mihrunnisá, was later married to Prince Shahryár, Jahángír's fifth son.
Jahángír in the Tuzuk expresses his joy at 'A. Q.'s death, and hopes that “the blackfaced wretch will for ever remain in hell.” Kháfí Khán (I., p. 267) mentions an extraordinary circumstance, said to have been related by Núr Jahán's mother. According to her, Sher Afkan was not killed by Quṭbuddín's men, but, wounded as he was, managed to get to the door of his house, with the intention of killing his wife, whom he did not wish to fall into the emperor's hands. But her mother would not let him enter, and told him to mind his wounds, especially as Mihrunnisá had committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. “Having heard the sad news, Sher Afkan went to the heavenly mansions.”
His body was buried in the shrine of the poet Bahrám Saqqá (vide below among the poets); the place is pointed out to this day at Bardwán.
A verse is often mentioned by Muhammadans in allusion to four tigers which Núr Jahán killed with a musket. The tigers had been caught (Tuzuk, p. 186), and Núr Jahán requested Jahángír to let her shoot them. She killed two with one ball each, and the other two with two bullets, without missing, for which the emperor gave her a present of one thousand Ashrafís. One of the courtiers said on the spur of the moment—
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“Though Núr Jahán is a woman, she is in the array of men a zan i sher afkan,” i. e. either the wife of Sher Afkan, or a woman who throws down (afkan) tigers (sher).
395. Sha´h Muhammad, son of Masnad i 'A´lí.
Vide Nos. 306 and 385.
396. Sanwalda´s Ja´don.
He accompanied Akbar on his forced march to Patan and Ahmadábád (p. 416, note), and served in 989 under Prince Murád in Kábul. In 992, he was assaulted and dangerously wounded by some Bháṭí. Akbar visited him, as he was given up by the doctors; but he recovered after an illness of three years.
He was the son of Rájah Gopál Jádon's brother (vide No. 305), and Abulfazl calls him a personal attendant of the emperor. Akbarn., III., 24, 333, 435.
397. Khwa´jah Zahi´ruddi´n, son of Shaikh Khalílullah.
He served in the 31st year under Qásim Khán (No. 59) in the conquest of Kashmír, and in the 46th year in the Dak'hin.
His father is also called Sháh Khalílullah. He served in the 10th year against Khán Zamán, and under Mun'im Khán in Bengal and Oṛísá, and died in 983 at Gaur of fever (p. 376).
Father and son are not to be confounded with the more illustrious Mír Khalílullah of Yazd and his son Mír Zahíruddín, who in the 2nd year of Jahángír came as fugitives from Persia to Láhor. The history of this noble family is given in the Maásir.
398. Mi´r Abul Qa´sim of Níshápúr.
399. Ha´ji´ Muhammad Ardistání.
400. Muhammad Kha´n, son of Tarson Khán's sister (No. 32).
401. Khwa´jah Muqi´m, son of Khwájah Mírakí.
He served under 'Azíz Kokah in Bengal, and returned with him to court in the 29th year. In 993, he served again in Bengal, and was besieged, together with Ṭáhir Saiful Mulúk (No. 201) in Fort G'horág'hát by several Bengal rebels. In the end of the 35th year (beginning of 999), he was made Bakhshí. Akbarn., III., 418, 470, 610.
Vide Dowson's edition of Elliot's Historians, I., pp. 248, 251.
402. Qa´dir Quli´, foster brother of Mírzá Sháhrukh (No. 7).