The Institutes of Akbar 308: 78. Sayyid Hamid i Bukhari.

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Sayyid Hamid was the son of S. Miran, son of S. Mubarik. Sayyid Mubarik was a Gujrati Courtier (vide p. 385, note) who, it is said, arrived from Bukhara with but a horse. One day he was attacked by a mast elephant, when he discharged an arrow that entered the forehead of the animal so deep, that only the notch of the arrow was visible. From this event, the people of Gujrat swore by S. Mubarik’s arrow. He gradually rose to higher dignities. When I’timad Khan (No. 67) raised Nat’hu to the throne, under the title of Muzaffar Shah, S. Mubarik got several Mahalls of the Patan, Dholqah, and Dandogah (W. of the Peninsula) Districts. After his death, Dholqah and Dandogah were given to his son, Sayyid Miran, and after him to his grandson Sayyid Hamid.
When Akbar, on his invasion of Gujrat, arrived on 1st Rajab, 980, at Patan, Sayyid Hamid went over to him, and was favorably received. During the war of Mirza ’Aziz Kokah with the Mirzas (vide No. 77), S. H. was put in charge of Ahmadabad. In the 18th year, Dholqah and Dandogah were again given him as tuyul. Subsequently, he served under Qutbuddin in Kambhayat.
In the 22nd year, he was appointed to Multan, and served in the end of the same year with M. Yusuf Khan i Razawi (No. 35), against the Baluchis. In the 25th year, when M. Muhammad Hakim invaded Lahor, S. H. with the other tuyuldars of the Panjab assembled and joined the army of Prince Murad, S. H. commanding the left wing. He also served under Akbar in Kabul. On the Emperor’s return, he was permitted to go from Sirhind to his jagir.
In the 30th year, he served under Man Singh in Kabul. On his arrival at Peshawar, his jagir, S. H. sent most of his men to Hindustan, and lived securely in Bigram (on our Maps, Beghram), leaving his affairs in the hands of a man of the name of Musa. This man oppressed the Mahmand and Ghuryah (?) Khail tribes, ‘who have ten thousand homes near Peshawar’. The oppressed Afghans, instead of complaining to Akbar, chose Jalalah i Tariki as leader, and attacked S. H. He first resolved to shut himself up in Bigram; but having received an erroneous report regarding the strength of the enemies, he left the town, and was defeated and killed (31st year). The Maasir says, he was killed in 994. In this fight, forty of his relations and clients also perished. The Afghans then besieged the Fort, which was held by Kamil, son of S. H. He held it till he was relieved.
S. Kamil, during Akbar’s reign, was promoted to a command of Seven Hundred, and, on the accession of Jahangir, to a Hazariship. He was made Governor of Dihli, vice Shaikh ’Abdul Wahhab, also a Bukhari Sayyid (Tuz. p. 35, l. 8 from below).
Kamal served under Farid i Bukhari (No. 99) in the expedition against Prince Khusrau, and commanded the left wing in the fight near Bhaironwal, rendering timely assistance to the Sayyids of Barha who, as was customary, led the van.
Sayyid Ya'qub, son of S. Kamal, was a Commander of Fifteen Hundred, 1000 horse, and died in the third year of Shahjahan’s reign. The Maasir says, in the 2nd year.
The two lists of Shahjahan’s grandees given in the Padishahnamah (I, b., 322; II, 740) mention another son of Sayyid Hamid, of the name of Sayyid Baqir, who held a Command of Five Hundred, 400 horse.