He was entitled Mīr Murtaẓā and was descended of the Sayyids of Dūghalbād.* He was one of the most trusted officers of the Khānzamān, and for some time held possession of Badāon. He was endowed with learning and accomplishments and was im­moderately fond of jesting. When Ḥijāz* Khān, one of the chief men of Badāon, who wrote poetry under the name of Zāhid, recited, from the manavī which he had written on the phrase ‘In the name of God,’ the following couplet:—

“When the crenellations of the letter sīn* began to laugh
The letter laughed so as to show its gums,”

The Mīr said, “What are ‘the crenellations of the letter sīn?’ The doors and the walls are laughing at your verse.”

Sometimes from the sprightliness of his nature he would occupy himself by writing poetry.

The following couplet is his:—

“O heart, all night the street dog gets no sleep
From thy cries and lamentation and wailing.”