Muntakhab al-tawarikh 128: VI. MIYĀN JAMĀL KHĀN, MUFTĪ OF DIHLĪ.

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He was the pupil of his own worthy father, Shaikh Naṣīru-’d-dīn, and the brother of Miyān Lādan. He was of the Kambah tribe. He was one of the most learned men of his time both in those branches of knowledge which depend on the reasoning faculty, and in those which depend on the memory, but especially in practical and scholastic theology, knowledge of Arabic, and expounding the Qur’an, in which studies he was unequalled. He used to speak authoritatively on the commentaries on the Miftah, and it is said that he had, in the course of teaching, gone through the book Azdi, one of the most advanced works, forty times. He used to impart religious instruction, and never went to the houses of kings or nobles, but always affected the company of magistrates who were honoured and respected. Most of his pupils have become wise men. He passed away to the next world in the year H. 984 (A.D. 1576-77) at the age of more than ninety years.