The Institutes of Akbar 321: 91. Sayyid Ahmad of Bāṛha.

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He is the younger brother of Sayyid Mahmūd (p. 392). In the 17th year, he served in the manqalā, which, under the command of Khān i Kalān (No. 16) was sent to Gujrāt. After the conquest of Ahmadābād, he was ordered with other Amīrs to pursue the sons of Sher Khān Fūlādī (p. 396), who had removed their families and property from Patan to Īdar. A portion of their property fell into the hands of the Imperialists. When Akbar afterwards encamped at Patan, he gave the town to Mīrzā ’Abdurrahīm (No. 29), but appointed S. A. as Governor. In the same year, Muhammad Husain Mīrzā, Shāh Mīrzā, and Sher Khān Fūlādī, besieged Patan; but they dispersed on the approach of M. ’Azīz.
In the 20th year, S. A. and his nephews S. Qāsim and S. Hāshim quelled the disturbances in which Jaláluddín Qúrchí (No. 213) had lost his life. In 984, he served under Sháhbáz Khán (No. 80) in the expedition to Siwánah. According to the Tabaqát, which calls him a Commander of Three Thousand, he died in 985. Abulfazl mentioned Sayyid Ahmad above on p. 289, l. 4 from below.
Sayyid Ahmad’s son, S. Jamáluddín, was killed by the untimely explosion of a mine during the siege of Chitór (p. 368).
This S. Jamáluddín must not be confounded with the notorious S. Jamáluddín who was executed in 993 (Badáoní II, 345). He was a grandson of S. Mahmúd (No. 75), S. Qásim being called his uncle.