Muntakhab al-tawarikh 280: LXVIII. Shuja‘i.

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He is Saif-ul-Muluk the physician. One day when he came to treat a sick man Mir Sayyid Muhammad the cloth-weaver, who has the poetical name of Fikri, and is well known under the nickname of Mir Ruba‘i, was employed with the patient. The Mir said of Shuja‘i,
“A sharp sword is his worship, Maulavi Saif-ul-Muluk, Who has introduced a new fashion in the practice of medicine. Yesterday Death said, when he had come to take the life of a sick man, ‘Everywhere I go he has been called in first.’ ”
The Maulana (Saif-ul-Muluk) composed the following ‘increased’ quatrain on the incontinence and gluttony of the Mir (Sayyid Muhammad),
“O Mir, how can five gallons of thick broth be contained—in one debilitated stomach? Si autem contineantur, quomodo continebit se penis tuus—ab intromissione primâ?
Mulla Shiri’s death occurred in the hilly country of the Yusufzais, in the year H. 994 (A.D. 1586) as has been already mentioned.