Muntakhab al-tawarikh 142: XXIII. Shaikh ‘Abdu-’l-Qadir.

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He is one of the descendants of Shaikh ‘Abdu-’l-Qadir the second, of Uch, who was entitled his holiness Ghaus-i-Rabbani (may God be graciously pleased with them!). Shaikh ‘Abdu-’l-Qadir and his younger brother, Shaikh Ilah Bakhsh, were both educated in piety, devotion, and temperance, and were distinguished for their mental perfections. They lived for some time in Fathpur, and the emperor, at the time when religious controversy waxed warm, extended his patronage to Shaikh Ilah Bakhsh, and appointed him to Gujarat with the title of Sadr, and sent him to Shahbaz Khan. This was, in fact, banishment. The Shaikh, however, rendered good service to the state, and constantly sent express messengers with representations containing full news of the rebels, and other matters, so that a commission was issued, granting him the rank of commander of three hundred. But just then the messenger of death delivered in his ear the joyful message, “Return thou to thy Lord,” and he responded cheerfully to the messenger of God. His elder brother, Shaikh ‘Abdu-’l-Qadir, was then banished to the glorious city of Makkah, and at the time when the Khankhanan, son of Bairam Khan, and Mirza Nizamu-’d-din Ahmad had the control of affairs in Gujarat, he went thither, and having obtained from them provisions for his journey and attached himself to a company of pilgrims he obtained the glory of performing the pilgrimage of the Hajj. Thence he returned to his own native place, Labor, where he now lives, engaged in the service of God and in devotion, and remaining steadfast in the same.