Muntakhab al-tawarikh 271: LVIII. Sayyāfī.

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He was a servant of Bairam Khān and the Khān sent by his hand a sum of seven thousand rupees as an offering to the shrine of his holiness the Imām Rizā (on whom be blessings and praise!). Having spent all this money he was there called to account by Shāh Tahmāsp and in the year H. 974 (A.D. 1566-67) was released from torture (by death). These couplets are by him:—
“When my sallow countenance appeared in the mirror, The mirror, from the reflection of my face, became an autumn leaf.”
“My narrow breast, in which lodges grief for the absence of my love, May yet be so situated that joy will leave in it no room for my soul.”