Muntakhab al-tawarikh 126: IV. Mīr Sayyid Muḥammad, Mīr-i-‘Adl of Amroha.

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Amroha is a pargana town in the Sarkār of Sambhal. Mīr Sayyid Muḥammad was exceedingly pious, devout, and abstemious. He and the author's father were in their youth fellow-students under various teachers in the city of Sambhal, and also in Badaon under Mir Sayyid Jalal, a sage who had studied the traditional sayings of the prophet under Mir Sayyid Rafi'u 'd-din. Mir Sayyid Muhammad, after completing his course of studies, employed himself in teaching, and towards the end of his life attained to a high position in the Imperial Court, receiving the appointment of Mir 'Adl. In this high post he showed himself to be scrupulously just, straightforward and trustworthy, so that even the Qazi-l-Quzat of the time, out of respect to Mir Sayyid Muhammad's age, refrained from his customary double-dealing and base behaviour, and during the Mir's tenure of his post no heretic or schismatic had an opportunity of damaging the faith of Islam.
After the death of Mir Sayyid Muhammad the title of Mir 'Adl was applied to and assumed by many persons.
The Mir, owing to his hereditary connection with me and the longstanding affection which he had for me, advised me, when I first appeared at court, to have nothing to do with any madad-i-ma'ash, and to refrain from subjecting myself to the base actions of the Sadrs, recommending me to enter the Imperial service in any post I could obtain, for that the Sadrs were tyrannical egotists. Owing to my disregard of his advice I naturally experienced what I have experienced, and suffered what I have suffered.
The Mir was appointed to the government of Bakkar in the year H. 984 (A.D. 1576-77), and in that city departed this life in the year H. 986 (A.D. 1578-79).