Was the son of Ṭahmúraṣ Devband or the binder of the demons.* When by the Almighty decrees, he became a wanderer in the desert of misfortune, he happened to pass through Zábulistán. For sixteen years he dwelt in Kábul and secretly married the daughter of the prince Kaurnak. When the news was bruited abroad the prince bade him, one night, take his departure for Hindustan. The poet Asadí* says of this night:
Black as an Ethiop grew the night whose veil
O'er the moon's face its sable shadow flung,
Sad as the stifled sob whose scarce-heard wail
Dies on the ear from some despairing tongue.
For some time he employed himself in the profession of arms and when his secret was on the point of being discovered, he set out for China by way of Bengal, and on the road fell in with the emissaries of Zohák.