About Kandahar there are many graves of the workers of miracles. Amongst these is that of Shah Musnood Abdal. On the hill side (at the base of which is this grave) vines, apple trees, quince trees, pome­granates, and many other fruits grow of their own accord: there are many springs of water running there. Such as this is only to be found at Kandahar, nowhere else. Shah Musnood planted a vine there, which remains still. Near this hill there is a tract of land called Tunbeel, where the melons and water-melons are particularly fine; they are watered from Kareezes. Wherever these are sown, half of the fruit, more or less, have insects in them, the fruit becoming on that side as hard as a stone; but this is not the case with those grown at Tunbeel.

Another grave is that of Baba Husun Abdool, of the true family of the Syuds of Subzwar.

At the beginning of his life he had an inclination towards God. He made a journey to Mecca, performing the pilgrimage to both that shrine and Medina, remaining there some time. He came to Subzwar in the time of Shah Rookh Badshah, who placed great faith in him. On this account he took him with him on his journey to Hindoostan, and when he returned Baba Husun remained at Lungur of Kandahar. When there, he said to his disciples: “From this earth the smell of friendship comes to me!” He remained there all his days, dying there. His grave is on high ground, beneath which is the Urghoondab, with many villages; and on Fridays the men and women, the little and big, the good and the bad, all flock there on pilgrimage: but few remain in the city on that day— all go there. It certainly is a delightful situation, and those who come from other parts say there is no place like it.

His (Baba Husun’s) miracles are many; from amongst them these are a few— I have related how he went into the cave, bringing out the gold brick:—

In front of the door of his tomb there is a temple of a conical shape, made of stone, but the stones are not cut, and each weighs 5 Kanda­har maunds; there is not any plaster or mud between them. They say this was his cloister, and that with one disciple he built it in one night. The stones are so joined, that water does not pass between them; and yet, what is most extraordinary, the sky is to be seen between through the crevices. On the peak of the hill, on the base of which stands this tomb, there is a temple built by Baba Husun Abdool. All who see it say it is one of his miracles, because there is no way for a man to get there, and it must have been most difficult to convey materials for building there.

Syud Meer Hoosain Zunjeer Rai is also of the true family of Subzwar; there are nineteen generations between him and Imam Moosa Kazim. His mother was the sister of Baba Husun Abdool. When Baba Husun returned to Subzwar from his journey to Mecca, he married his sister Fatima Beebee to Syud Uain-ood-deen, who was of the chief family of the Syuds of Subzwar. It is said, that nineteen years after this marriage Meer Hoosain Zunjeer was born, and that at the age of seven years he disappeared from the sight of his friends, who ran about in every direction, but they could not find him. On this account great sorrow came upon his parents. After seven years all at once he came to their door, crying out. When this reached their ears, with great happiness they ran out, and cured their eyes of the tears of separation. They asked him why he had left them: he replied that the Musulmen Genii, at the desire of his maternal uncle, Baba Husun, had carried him away to him in Hindoostan, where he had remained one year with him, when he gave him leave to depart, and the Genii brought him back to a priest’s monastery, where he stayed six years, finding inclination to learn the traditions of Mahomed, and the ordinances of God. After his return home, he followed the path of the jungle of theology of the Soofees: he chose to go about, wandering, gathering from each harvest (of their travels) one ear of corn; from every corner (of inquiry) he found bread. When the fire of the love of God commenced burning in his breast, he began to seek a perfect priest: in this search he came to his uncle Baba Husun.

It is said that one forenoon Meer Syud Hoosain was coming to visit Baba Husun at Lungur, who became lost in rapture, saying to his disciples: “I perceive the scent of a man from whose coming the eye of my heart will receive light; do you go in front to meet him.” These Fakeers had gone but a short way, when they met Syud Hoosain, whom they brought to Baba Husun, who embraced him, kissing his face and head, and seating him in his own place. Hearing of the arrival of Syud Hoosain, all the priests of Kandahar came to visit him; many were collected to see him. Then Baba Husun said to him: “Oh son! many good people have come to see you; it is necessary that you give them something to eat.” Meer Syud Hoosain arose, and placing a vessel on the fire, he put into it five seers (Khandaharee) of meat, and ten seers of flour, which began to cook. When it was done, Baba Husun said— “Are you able to fill the bellies of the Fakeers with this?” Syud Meer Hoosain said he could, and he got up.

Many men of truth state that from this vessel he took out 150 dishes filled; that the stomachs of all were satisfied, and the vessel remained full as before.

It is also said that he was one day standing on the road near Lungur; when a man with a loaded camel passed by, going towards the town. The Syud asked him what there was upon the camel. The man, in fear that he would beg something of him, replied “stones.” The Syud exclaimed— “It will be so.” When the man got to his house, and unloaded the camel in his enclosure, he opened the load, and found that it had become stone; so he took it up, taking it to Syud Hoosain, excusing himself, and placing these stones at his doorway. These stones were placed over his grave by his disciples, and they are there to this day. His praise is beyond what I can write: I have left all, having written but a little.