Muntakhab al-tawarikh 36: Friendship of the Author of the Tabakat-i Akbari.

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 296.] [One day when near Kabul, the Emperor directed the Sadr-i Jahan to make out and present to him a list of the pensioners (ahl-i sa'adat) who were present with the army, and another of those who were absent. When my (the author's) name came up, the late Khwája Nizamu-d dín Ahmad, the author of the Táríkh-i Nizámí, with whom I had become acquainted about a year before that time, but who was as friendly as if I had known him a hundred years, in the great kindness and consideration which he showed to all his friends, and to me in particular, caused me to be put down and returned as sick.