935 AH. SEP. 15th 1528 TO SEP. 5th 1529 AD. 6/S
Shah Muhammad (son) of Ma'ruf to whom in last year's campaign (934 AH.) I had shown great favour and had given the Saran-country, had done well on several occasions, twice fighting and overcoming his father Ma'ruf.1 At the time when SI. Mahmud Ludl perfidiously took possession of Bihar, and was opposed by Shaikh Bayazld and Biban, Shah Muhammad had no help for it, he had to join them ; but even then, when people were saying wild words about him, he had written dutifully to me. When 'Askarl crossed at the Haldl-passage, Shah Muhammad had come at once with a troop, seen him and with him gone against the Bengalis. He now came to this ground and waited on me.
During these days news came repeatedly that Biban and Shaikh Bayazld were meaning to cross the Saru-river.
In these days of respite came the surprising news from Sanbal (Sambhal) where 'Ali-i-yusuf had stayed in order to bring the place into some sort of order, that he and a physician who was by way of being a friend of his, had gone to God's mercy on one and the same da)-. 'Abdu'1-lah (kitabdiir) was ordered to go and maintain order in Sanbal.
{May 13th) On Friday the 5th of the month Ramzan, 'Abdu'llah was given leave for Sanbal.2
{dcid. News from the zvestward.)
In these same days came a dutiful letter from Chln-tlmur SI. saying that on account of the journey of the family from Kabul, several of the begs who had been appointed to reinforce him, had not been able to join him ;3 also that he had gone out with Muhammad! and other begs and braves, not less than lOOkurohs
1 Bayazld and Ma'ruf Farmull.were brothers. Bayazld had taken service with Habur in 932 AH. (1526ad.), left him in 934AH. (end of 1527 AD.) and opposed him near Qanuj. Ma'ruf, long a rebel against Ibrahim I.ua'T, had never joined Itabur; two of his sons did so ; of the two, Muhammad and Musu, the latter may be the one mentioned as at Qanuj, " Ma'ruf's son" (f. .536). For an interesting sketch of Mariif's character and for the location in Hindustan of the Farmull clan, tee the H'iiqi\lt-i-mitshlaqi, E. & D.'s History of India, iv, 5S4. In connection with Qanuj, the discursive remark may be allowable, that Babur's halt during the construction of the bridge of boats across the Ganges in 934 ah. is still commemorated by the name Badshah-nagar of a village between Bangarmau and Nanamau (Elliot's O/iuti, p. 45).
* On f. 381 'Abdu'l-lah's starting-place is mentioned as Tir-muhanT.
3 The failure to join would be one of the evils predicted by the dilatory start of the adies from Kabul (f. 360*).
