Muntakhab al-tawarikh 184: LXVI Shaikh Mansur of Lahor

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He is one of the disciples of Shaikh Ishaq Kaku, and acquired most of his learning under Maulana Sa‘du-’llah, with whom he was connected by marriage. He is a learned and able man and is proficient in all such philosophical learning as is usually studied in India. He has a pleasant disposition and a sound understanding, which enables him readily to grasp a subject. He associates much with the nobles and chief men of the State and is resorted to by them. For some time he held the post of chief Qazi of Malwa, and when the emperor set up his court at Lahor, he left Malwa and paid his respects at Court. He is now employed in the administration of the pargana of Bajwara and the submontane districts. His son Mulla ‘Ala’u-d-din was one of the most famous of the learned men employed in teaching, and was for some time among the companions of the Khan-i-Khanan, by whom he was highly regarded and much honoured. When he entered the imperial service he also received much honour, and though much pressed and urged to enter the military service he declined to do so, and employed himself in teaching, spending whatever he received from his jagir on the students whom he taught. Of all the Mullas in India, after Pir Muhammad Khan, there was nobody so famous as Mulla ‘Ala’u-’d-din and Mulla Nur Muhammad Tarkhan for generosity, liberality, and open-handedness. Mulla ‘Ala’u-d-din has written well-known marginal notes on the Sharh ‘Aqa’id. He attained to the honour of performing the pilgrimage of the Hajj and is buried in the holy land of pilgrimage. I never met him.