The Institutes of Akbar 385: 157. Ma’cúm Khán, son of Mu’ín uddín Ahmad Farankhúdí (No. 128).

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He is not to be confounded with Ma’çúm Khán i Kábulí (p. 431, note).
Ma’cúm was made a Hazárí on the death of his father, and received Gházípúr as tuyúl. He joined Todar Mall in Bihár, though anxious to go over to the rebels (p. 351).
Not long afterwards, Mirzá Muhammad Hakim, Akbar’s brother, threatened to invade the Panjáb, and as the emperor had resolved to move personally against him, Ma’súm thought it opportune to rebel. He seized Jaunpúr and drove away Tarsún Khán’s men (No. 32). As Akbar had known him from a child, he was inclined to pardon him, provided he left Jaunpúr and accepted Awadh as tuyúl. This M. did; but he continued to recruit, and when Sháh Qulí Mahram and Rájah Bír Bar had failed to bring him to his senses, Shahbáz Khán, on hearing of his conduct, determined to punish him. The events of the expedition have been related on p. 400.
After his defeat near Awadh, M. threw himself into the town; but as several rebel chiefs had left him, he absconded, without even taking his family with him. He applied to two Zamíndárs for assistance; but the first robbed him of his valuables, and the latter waylaid him, and had it not been for a bribe, M. would not have escaped. About this time one of his friends of the name of Maqsúd joined him and supplied him with funds. M. collected men and surprised and plundered the town of Bahráich. Vazír Khán (No. 41) and others moved from Hájípúr against him; but M. escaped them. After plundering the town of Muhammadábád, he resolved to surprise Jaunpúr, when the tuyúldárs of the district marched against him. Being hard pressed, he applied to M. ‘Azíz Kokah (No. 21) to intercede for him. Akbar again pardoned him, and gave him the Parganah Mihsí, Sirkár Champáran, as tuyúl. But M. continued in a rebellious attitude, and when M. ’Azíz prepared to punish him, he applied for leave to go to Court. He arrived, in the 27th year, in Ágrah, and was again pardoned, chiefly at the request of Akbar’s mother.
Soon after, on going home one night from the Darbár, he was killed on the road. An enquiry was ordered to be held, but without result, and people believed that Akbar had connived at the murder. Compare with this the fate of Nos. 61 and 62, two other Bihár rebels.