The Institutes of Akbar 402: 173. Shaikh ’Abdullah, son of Shaikh Muhammad Ghaus [of Gwaliar].

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Shaikh ’Abdullah at first lived a retired and saintly life, but entered subsequently the Emperor’s service. He distinguished himself, and is said to have risen to the rank of a commander of Three Thousand. He died when young.
His brother Ziaullah lived as Faqir, and studied during the lifetime of his further under the renowned saint Wajihuddin in Gujrat, who himself was a pupil of Muhammad Ghaus.
Biographies of Muhammad Ghaus (died 970 at Agrah, buried in Gwalior) will be found in the Maásir, Badáoni (III., p. 4), and the Khazinatullasfia (p. 969). He was disliked by Bairam Khan, Shaikh Gadai, and Shaikh Mubarak, Abulfazl’s father. Vide also Maásir i ’Alamgiri, p. 166.