The Institutes of Akbar 346: 115. Shah Fana’i, son of Mir Najafi.

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His name is not given in the Maasir and the Tabaqat. From the Akbarnamah (Lucknow Edition, II, 170, 172) we see that he served in the conquest of Malwah and took part in the battle near Sarangpur (beginning of the 6th year; vide No. 120).
The poet Lami'i who is mentioned in Badaoni (III, 296), the Tabaqat, and the Mir-at ul ’Alam, appears to be the same. He travelled a good deal, was in Makkah, and distinguished himself by personal courage in war. Akbar conferred on him the title of Khán. He was a Chaghtái Turk of noble descent. Once he said, in Akbar’s presence, that no one surpassed him in the three C’s,—chess, combat, composition, when the emperor replied that he had forgotten a fourth, viz. conceit. For some reason, he was imprisoned, and when set at liberty, it was found that he had become mad. He ran into the wilderness, and was no more heard of.