K AN AFGHAN LEGEND.
My husband's article in the Asiatic Quarterly Review of April 1901 begins with an account of the two MSS. from which it is drawn, viz. I.O. 581 in Pushtu, I.O. 582 in Persian, Both are mainly occupied with an account of the Yusuf-zal. The second opens by telling of the power of the tribe in Afghanistan and of the kindness of Malik Shah Sulaiman, one of their chiefs, to Aulugh Beg Mirza Kabuli, (Babur's paternal uncle,) when he was young and in trouble, presumably as a boy ruler.
It relates that one day a wise man of the tribe, Shaikh 'Usman saw Sulaiman sitting with the young Mirza on his knee and warned him that the boy had the eyes of Yazid and would destroy him and his family as Yazid had destroyed that of the Prophet. Sulaiman paid him no attention and gave the Mirza his daughter in marriage. Subsequently the Mirza having invited the Yusuf-zal to Kabul, treacherously killed Sulaiman and 700 of his followers. They were killed at the place called Siyah-sang near Kabul; it is still known, writes the chronicler in about 1770 ad. (1184 AH.), as the Grave of the Martyrs. Their tombs are revered and that of Shaikh 'Usman in particular.
Shah Sulaiman was the eldest of the seven sons of Malik Taju'd-dln ; the second was Sultan Shah, the father of Malik Ahmad. Before Sulaiman was killed he made three requests
