The Institutes of Akbar 396: 167. Hasan Beg [Kha’n i Badakhshi’] Shaikh ’Umari'.

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Hasan Beg was a good soldier. In the 34th year, Akbar, after his stay in Kashmir, marched to Zabulistan, and passed through the district of Pak’hali, which is 35 kos long and 25 broad, and lies west of Kashmir. In Pak’hali, Sultan Husain Khan i Pak’haliwal (No. 301) paid his respects. This Zamindar belonged to the descendants of the Qarlughs, whom Timur on his return from India to Turan had left in Pak’hali as garrison. After following Akbar’s Court for a few days, Sultan Husain Khan withdrew without leave, and the emperor ordered Hasan Beg to occupy Pak’hali (Akbarnamah III, 591, 598). He speedily subdued the district. In the 35th year, during Hasan Beg’s temporary absence at Court, Sultan Husain Khan again rebelled, assumed the title of Sultan Nasiruddin, and drove away Hasan Beg’s men. But soon after, he had again to submit to Hasan Beg. In the 46th year, Hasan was made a Commander of Two Thousand and Five Hundred for his services in Bangash, and was put, towards the end of Akbar’s reign, in charge of Kabul, receiving Fort Rohtas (in the Panjab) as jagir.
In the beginning of Jahangir’s reign, he was called from Kabul to Court. On his way, at Mat’hura (Muttra), Hasan Beg met Prince Khusrau, who had fled from Agrah on Sunday, the 8th Zi Hajjah, 1014. From distrust as to the motives of the emperor which led to his recall from Kabul, or “from the innate wickedness of Badakhshis,” he joined the Prince with his three hundred Badakhshi troopers, received the title of Khan Baba, and got the management of all affairs. Another officer who attached himself to Khusrau, was ’Abdurrahim, Diwan of Lahor. After the defeat near Bhaironwal on the Biah, the Afghans who were with the Prince, advised him to retreat to the Eastern provinces of the empire; but Hasan Beg proposed to march to Kabul, which, he said, had always been the starting-place of the conquerors of India; he had, moreover, four lacs of rupees in Rohtas, which were at the Prince’s service. Hasan Beg’s counsel was ultimately adopted. But before he could reach Rohtas, Khusrau was captured on the Chanab. On the 3rd Çafar 1015, the Prince, Hasan Beg, and ’Abdurrahim, were taken before Jahangir in the Bagh i Mirza Kamran, a villa near Lahor, Khusrau himself, according to Chingiz’s law (batorah i Chingizi), with his hands tied and fetters on his feet. Hasan Beg after making a useless attempt to incriminate others (p. 451), was put into a cow-hide, and ’Abdurrahim into a donkey’s skin, and in this state they were tied to donkeys, and carried through the bazars.
‘As cow-hides get sooner dry than donkey-skins, Hasan died after a few hours from suffocation; but ’Abdurrahim was after 24 hours still alive, and received, at the request of several courtiers, free pardon. The other accomplices and the troopers of Khusrau were impaled; their corpses were arranged in a double row along the road which leads from the Bágh i Mirzá Kámrán to the Fort of Láhor, and Khusrau, seated on a sorry elephant, was led along that way. People had been posted at short intervals, and pointing to the corpses, kept calling out to Khusrau, “Behold, your friends, your servants, do you homage.”
Hasan Beg was mentioned above on p. 346. His son Isfandiyár Khán, was under Sháhjahán, a commander of 1500. He served in Bengal, and died in the 16th year of Sháhjahán’s reign (Pádisháhn. I, 476; II., b., 304). The ’Árif Beg i Shaikh ’Umarí mentioned in the Pádisháhn. (I, b., 319) appears to be a relation of his.