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son, Abu'1-fath by name, came from 'Iraq to my presence, a very soft, unsteady and feeble person ; such a son from such a father!
Of those who came into Khurasan after Shah lsma'll.took 'Iraq and Azarbaljan {circa 906 AH.-1500AD.), one was 'Abdu'lbaql Mirza. of Tlmur Beg's line. He was a Mlran-shahl * whose ancestors will have gone long before into those parts, put thought of sovereignty out of their heads, served those ruling there, and from them have received favour. That Tlmur 'Usman who was the great, trusted beg of Ya'qub Beg (White-sheep Turkman) and who had once even thought of sending against Khurasan the mass of men he had gathered to himself, must have been this Abdu'1-baql Mirza's paternal-uncle. SI. Husain Mirza took 'Abdu'1-baqi Mirza at once into favour, making him a son-in-law by giving him Sultanlm Beglm, the mother of Muhammad SI. Mirza.2 Another late-comer was Murad Beg Bayandari.
{h. His Chief Justices (sadur).)
One was Mir Sar-i-barahna (Bare-head)3; he was from a village in Andijan and appears to have made claim to be a sayyid {mutasayyid). He was a very agreeable companion, pleasant of temper and speech. His were the judgment and rulings that carried weight amongst men of letters and poets of Khurasan. He wasted his time by composing, in imitation of the story of Amir Hamza,4 a work which is one long, farfetched lie, opposed to sense and nature.
Kamalu'd-dln Husain Gdzur-gdhi^ was another. Though not a Sufi, he was mystical.6 Such mystics as he will have
1 His paternal line was, 'Abdu'1-baqi, son of 'Usman, son of SayyidI Ahmad, son of Miran-shah. His mother's people were begs of the White-sheep (H.S. iii, 290).
2 Sultanlm had married Wais (f. 157) not later than 895 or 896 ah. (H.S. iii, 253); she married 'Abdu'1-baqi in.908 AH. (1502-3 ad.).
3 Sayyid Shamsu'd-din Muhammad, Mir Sayyid Har-i-barahita owed his sobriquet of Bare-head to love-sick wanderings of his youth (H.S. iii, 328). The IJ.S. it is clear, recognizes him as a sayyid.
4 Rieu's Pers. Cat. p. 760 ; it is immensely long ana "" tilled with tales that shock all probability" (Erskine).
5 f. 94 and note. SI. Husain M. made him curator of Ansari's shrine, an officer represented, presumably, by Col. Yate's " Mir of Gazur-gah ", and he became Chief Justice in 904 AH. (1498-99 AD.). See H.& iii, 330 and 340 ; JASB 1887, art. On the city of Harat (C. K. Yate) p. 85.
6 mutasauwif, perhaps meaning not a professed Sufi.
