The Institutes of Akbar 370: 142. Mīrzā Najāt Khān, brother of Sayyid Barkah, and · 143. Mīrzā Husain Khān, his brother.

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Both brothers, according to the Tabaqāt, were dead in 1001. Their names are often wrongly given in MSS., which call them Najābat, instead of Najāt, and Hasan instead of Husain.
From the Akbarnāmah (I, 411) we see that both brothers accompanied Humāyūn on his march to India.
Mīrzā Najāt served, in the 10th year, against Khān Zamān (No. 13). In the end of the 21st year, he was attached to the corps which under Shihāb Khān (No. 26) moved to Khāndesh, the king of which, Rājah 'Alī Khān, had shewn signs of disaffection. Later, he served in Bengal. When the Military Revolt broke out, Bābā Khān Qāqshāl (vide p. 369, note 3), Jabarī (p. 370), Vazīr Jamīl (No. 200), Sa’īd i Toqbāī, and other grandees, marched on the 9th Zī Hajjah, 987, from Tāndah to Gaur across the Ganges. Mīr Najāt was doubtful to which party to attach himself; and when Muzaffar sent his grandees [Mīr Jamāluddīn Husain Injū (No. 164), Razawī Khān (No. 141), Tīmūr Khān (No. 215), Rāi Patr Dās (No. 196), Mīr Adham, Husain Beg, Hakīm Abulfath (No. 112), Khwājah Shamsuddīn (No. 159), Ja’far Beg (No. 98), Muhammad Qulī Turkmān (No. 203), Qāsim Khān i Sīstānī, ‘Iwaz Bahādur, Zulf ’Alī Yazdī, Sayyid Abū Is-hāq i Çafawī (No. 384), Muzaffar Beg, &c.] to the banks of the Ganges, where the rebels had drawn up their army, Mīr Najāt stayed with Vazīr Jamīl, although Muzaffar, who was Najāt’s father-in-law, fully expected him to join. He must have soon after left the rebels and gone to Southern Bengal; for in the end of the 25th year he was at Sātgānw (Hūglī). Abulfazl mentions him together with Murād Khān at Fathābād (No. 54), and Qiyā Khān in Orīsā (No. 33), as one of the few that represented Imperialism in Bengal (Akbarn. III, 291). But these three were too powerless to check the rebels. Murād died, and Qiyā was soon after killed by the Afghāns under Qatlū, who looked upon the revolt as his opportunity. Mir Najat also was attacked by Qutli and defeated near Salimabad (Sulaimanabad), S. of Bardwan. He fled to the Portuguese governor of Higli. Baba Khan Qaqshal sent one of his officers to get hold of Najat; but the officer hearing of Qutli’s victory, attacked the Afghans near Mangalkot, N. E. of Bardwan. Qutli, however, was again victorious.