The Institutes of Akbar 227.2

227.2

After the death of Khan Mirza, Badakhshan was governed for Babar by Prince Humayun, Sultan Uwais (Mirza Sulaiman’s father-in-law), Prince Hindal, and lastly, by Mirza Sulaiman, who held Badakhshan till 17 Jumada III, 948, when he had to surrender himself and his son, Mirza Ibrahim, to Prince Kamran. They were released by Humayun in 952, and took again possession of Badakhshan. When Humayun had taken Kabul, he made war upon and defeated Mirza Sulaiman who once in possession of his country, had refused to submit; but when the return of Kamran from Sind obliged Humayun to go to Kabul, he reinstated the Mirza, who held Badakhshan till 983. Bent on making conquests, he invaded in 967 Balkh, but had to return. His son, Mirza Ibrahim, was killed in battle. In the eighth year when Mirzá Muhammad Hakim’s (Akbar’s brother) mother had been killed by Sháh Abul Ma’álí, Mirzá S. went to Kábul, and had Abul Ma’álí hanged; he then married his own daughter to M. M. Hakim, and appointed Uméd ’Alí, a Badakhshán noble, M. M. Hakim’s Vakíl (970). But M. M. Hakím did not go on well with Mirzá Sulaimán, who returned next year to Kábul with hostile intentions; but M. M. Hakim fled and asked Akbar for assistance, so that Mirzá S., though he had taken Jalálábád, had to return to Badakhshán. He returned to Kábul in 973, when Akbar’s troops had left that country, but retreated on being promised tribute. Mirzá Sulaimán’s wife was Khurram Begum, of the Qibcháq tribe.