He is one of the disciples of Shaikh Isḥāq i-Rākū,* and acquired most of his learning under Maulānā Sa‘du-'llah,* with whom he was connected by marriage. He is a learned and able man and is proficient in all such philosophical learning as is usually studied in India. He has a pleasant disposition and a sound understanding, which enables him reading to grasp a subject. He associates much with the nobles and chief men of the State and is resorted to by them. For some time he held the post of chief Qāẓī of Mālwa, and when the emperor set up his court at Lāhōr, he left Mālwa and paid his respects at Court. He is now employed in the administration of the pargana of Bajwāra* and the submontane districts. His son Mullā ‘Alā'u-d-dīn was one of the most famous of the learned men employed in teaching, and was for some time among the companions of the Khan-i-Khānān, by whom he was highly regarded and much honoured. When he entered the imperial service he also received much honour, and though much pressed and urged to enter the ¹⁵⁶ military service he declined to do so, and employed himself in teaching, spending whatever he received from his jāgīr on the students whom he taught. Of all the Mullās in India, after Pīr Muhammad Khān, there was nobody so famous as Mullā ‘Alā'u-'d-dīn and Mullā Nūr Muḥammad Tarkhān for generosity, liber­ality, and open-handedness. Mullā ‘Alā'u-d-dīn has written well­known marginal notes on the Sharḥ ‘Aqā'id.* He attained to the honour of performing the pilgrimage of the Ḥajj and is buried in the holy land of pilgrimage. I never met him.