[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Conquests (711–1206)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest) › [Chachnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama) › [The Chachnamah, an Ancient History of Sind](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg) › 2.3 # The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 2.3 The Chachnamah, an Ancient History of Sind 2.3 - **Language:** English ### [2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.2.3) When I arrived at that city (Alor), I visited my lord and master, the Kázi, the great Imam (or leader in prayers), the learned man excelling in virtue and science, the paragon of religion and religious belief, the chief of rulers, Ismail son of Ali, son of Muhammad, son of Músa, son of Tái, son of Yakúb, son of Tái, son of Músá, son of Muhammad, son of Shahábuddín, son of Usmán Sakifi (may God perpetuate his excellence, and pardon his forefathers and ancestors in the name of Muhammad and all his descendants), who is the type of superiority in eloquence and the very soul of wisdom in oratory, and who has no equal in the Persian arts and sciences, and no sharer in the treasures of rhetoric. He informed me that an account of this conquest had been written in the Arabic language by his ancestors in a manuscript which had been handed down as a heritage from one to another to his time, and that as it was covered under the veil of the Arabic language, it had not come to the notice of the people of Persia and other countries. - [Previous: 2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.2.2) - [Next: 2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.2.4) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.conquest.chachnama~en-kalichbeg.2.3) · Pramāṇa