The Institutes of Akbar 232: 11. Mun’im Khan, son of Bairam Beg.

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Nothing appears to be known of the circumstances of his father. Mun’im Khan was a grandee of Humayun’s Court, as also his brother Fazil Beg. When Humayun, on his flight to Persia, was hard pressed by Mirza Shah Husain of T’hat’hah, one grandee after another went quietly away. M. and Fazil Beg also were on the point of doing so, when Humayun made them prisoners, as he had done from motives of prudence and policy with several other nobles. M. did not, however, accompany Humayun to Persia. He rejoined him immediately on his return, and rose at once to high dignity. He rejected the governorship of Qandahar, which was given to Bairam Khan. In 961, he was appointed ataliq of Prince Akbar; and when Humayun invaded India, M. was left as governor of Kabul in charge of Mirza Muhammad Hakim, Akbar’s brother, then about a year old. In Kabul M. remained till Bairám fell into disgrace. He joined Akbar, in Zí Hajjah, 967, at Lúdhiánah, where Akbar encamped on his expedition against Bairám. M. was then appointed Khán Khánán and Vakíl.
In the seventh year of Akbar’s reign, when Adham Khán (No. 19) killed Atgah Khán (No. 15), Mun’im who had been the instigator, fled twice from Court, but was caught the second time in Saror (Sirkár of Qanauj) by the collector of the district, and was brought in by Sayyid Mahmúd Khán of Bárha (No. 75). Akbar restored M. to his former honors.
Mun’im Khán’s son, Ghaní Khán, whom his father had left in charge of Kabul, caused disturbances from want of tact. Máh Jújak Begum, Prince M. Muhammad Hakím’s mother, advised by Fázil Beg and his son ’Abdulfath, who hated Ghaní Khán, closed the doors of Kabul, when Ghaní Khán was once temporarily absent at Fálíz. Ghaní Khán, not finding adherents to oppose her, went to India. Máh Jújak Begum then appointed Fázil Beg as Vakíl and ’Abdul Fath as Náib; but being dissatisfied with them, she killed them both, at the advice of Sháh Walí, one of her nobles. On account of these disturbances, Akbar, in the eighth year, sent M. to Kabul. Thinking he could rely on the Kabulis, M. left before his contingent was quite ready. He was attacked near Jalálábád by Máh Jújak Begum (who in the meantime had killed Sháh Walí and had taken up, apparently criminally, with Haidar Qásim Koh-bar, whom she had made Vakíl) and defeated. M. fled to the Ghak’hars, and ashamed and hesitating he joined Akbar, who appointed him Commander of the Fort of Ágrah.
In the 12th year, after the defeat and death of Khán Zamán (No. 13), M. was appointed to his jágírs in Jaunpúr (Bad. II, 101), and then concluded peace with Sulaimán Kararání of Bengal, who promised to read the Khutbah and strike coins in Akbar’s name.
In 982, Akbar, at M.’s request, went with a flotilla from Ágrah to Bihár, and took Hájípúr and Patna from Dáúd, Sulaimán’s son. M. was then appointed Governor of Bihár, and was ordered to follow Dáúd into Bengal. M. moved to Tándah (opposite Gaur, on the right side of the Ganges) to settle political matters, and left the pursuit to Muhammad Qulí Khán Barlás (No. 31). But as the latter soon after died, M., at the advice of Todar Mall, left Tándah, and followed up Dáúd, who after his defeat at Tukaroi, submitted at Katak. In Çafar 983, M. returned, and though his army had terribly suffered from epidemics on the march through Southern Bengal, he quartered them against the advice of his friends at Gaur, where M. soon after died of fever.
The great bridge of Jaunpúr was built by Mun’im Khán in 981. Its táríkh is صراط مستقيم. M.’s son, Ghaní Khán, went to ’Ádilsháh of Bíjápúr, where he died.