The Institutes of Akbar 301.5

301.5

(e.) Sayyid Qásim, Shahámat Khán [Chatraurí]——a brother (was alive in the 24th year of Aurangzíb). 1. S. Nusrat Yár Khán (under Muhammad Sháh). (f.) Sayyid Husain Khán, d. 1120. 1. S. Abú Sa’íd Khán. 2. Ghairat Khán. 3. Hasan Khán. (g.) Sayyid ’Abdulláh Khán, [Tihanpúrí]. alias Sayyid Miyán (under Sháh ’Álam I.) 1. S. Hasan ’Alí Khán; title, Qutbulmulk S. ’Abdulláh Khán. 2. Amírul Múmálík S. Husain ’Alí Khán. (killed by Muhammad Sháh). 3. S. Saifuddín Husain ’Alí Khán. 4. S. Najmuddín ’Alí Khán. For the following notes, I am indebted to R. J. Leeds, Esq., C. S., Mirzapore, who kindly sent me two Urdú MSS. containing a short family history of the Sádát i Bárha, composed in 1864 and 1869 by one of the Sayyids themselves. As Mr. Leeds has submitted together with his Report ‘a detailed account in English of the history of the Sayyids,’ the following extracts from the Urdu MSS. will suffice. The date of the arrival in India of the above-mentioned Abul Farah from Wasit is doubtful. The two MSS. mention the time of Iltitmish (Altamsh), and trace the emigration to troubles arising from Hulágú’s invasion of Baghdad and the overthrow of the empire of the Khalifahs; while the sons of Abul Farah are said to have been in the service of Shihábuddín Ghorí—two palpable anachronisms.