Muntakhab al-tawarikh 133: XII. QÁZÍ SHU'AIB, KHASHÁB OF JÁLANDHAR, NEPHEW OF SHAIKH 'AZÍZULLAH OF TALAMBA.

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He was a provincial Qází, and was respected as a leader in matters of faith by orthodox Muslims. He was a cheerful and pleasant companion, although he had for a time, as is well known, the pupil of Shaikh 'Abdu-llah Majzúb of Multán. I certainly found him to be far superior to 'Abdu-l-Majíd. He broad-minded was he in religious matters that he was commonly suspected of infidelity. But the fact is that he has so credulous that he would implicitly trust any person, even a common barber who was entitled to credence, and would stand before him with joined hands and receive him if he might say as an authentic utterance.
They say that a rustic who pretended to be in distress subjected to that one day came upon the Qází and that the Qází after his custom, stood before him with his hands joined and received. The rustic, double wretch said, "Khizr always with me." The Qází fell at his feet saying, "Show him to me." The rustic replied, "I am at present in great anxiety over the marriage of my daughter, an affair which will cost fifty or sixty tankas; when my anxiety is relieved I will effect a meeting between you and Khizr." The Qází at once gave him seven hundred tankas. Ten days later the man came to him and said, "Come that I may show you," and took him away with him to the river. Now the rustic was a very tall man, while the Qází was low of stature. The rustic walked into the river until the water reached his chin, and then stood still, and said to the Qází, "Come to me, for Khizr is here." The Qází replied, "I cannot swim; how can I come to you?" The rustic replied, "Well, I have shown you the place where Khizr is; if you cannot come to it it is no fault of mine." Many other stories, like this, are told of his simple-mindedness and credulousness. The author of the Tabaqát says that he was for some time Qází of Láhor. more laughable than this, are told of the Qāzī, and to detail them would be to show the weakness of his intellect. His extreme simplicity can be estimated from the example cited. When the Emperor bestowed on the chief men of Lāhor appointments in various parts of the Empire, and sent each one of them to fill some post in one city or another, Sadru-’d-dīn was appointed to be Qāzī of the seaport town of Bahroc, in the province of Gujarāt, and was despatched thither in that capacity. There he died, leaving behind him a son possessed of ability, named Shaikh Muhammad, who now holds in that city the appointment held by his late father.