The Institutes of Akbar 250.1
The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 250.1
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His mother was a daughter of Jamal Khan of Mewat. In 961, when Humayun returned to India, he enjoined his nobles to enter into matrimonial alliances with the Zamindars of the country, and after marrying the elder daughter of Jamal Khan, he asked Bairam Khan to marry the younger one. M. ’Abdurrahim was born at Lahor, 14th Cafar 964. When Bairam Khan was murdered at Patan in Gujrat (p. 317), his camp was plundered by some Afghans; but Muhammad Amin Diwanah and Bibi Zambur managed to remove the child and his mother from the scene of plunder, and bring them to Ahmadabad, fighting on the road with the Afghan robbers. From Ahmadabad, M. ‘Abdurrahim was taken to Akbar (969), who notwithstanding the insinuations of malicious courtiers took charge of him. He gave him the title of Mirza Khan, and married him subsequently to Mah Banu, sister of M. ’Aziz Kokah (No. 21).