Muntakhab al-tawarikh 29.4

29.4

Amīr Khusrū and Amīr Ḥasan of Dehlī remained in his service for five years in Multān, and were enrolled among his intimate companions. On two occasions he sent large sums of gold from Multān to Shīrāz and begged that Shaikh Sa'dī, may God have mercy on him, would come to live with him. The Shaikh did not come, excusing himself on the score of old age, but commended Mīr Khusrū to the care of the Sultān, writing in exceedingly laudatory terms concerning him, and sent a collection of autograph poems. Sultān Muḥammad used to visit Multān every year to see Sultān Balban, and used to return distinguished with robes of honour and all possible rewards and distinctions, and on the last occasion on which they were able to meet, the Sultan instructed him in private with excellent counsels and pleasing discourses, which are mentioned in the books of the Histories of Dehli, and having granted him permission to depart sent him to Multan; and in the same year Itimar the Mughal with thirty thousand horsemen having crossed the Ravi by the ford of Lahor caused great commotion in those districts, and the Governor of Lahor sent a petition to Khan-i-Shahid telling him of what had occurred. He while in his assembly read 30,000 as 3,000 and, marching with a large force, by rapid and continuous marches arrived at the boundaries of Bagh-i-Sabz, on the banks of the Lahor river where he engaged the infidels and attained the dignity of martyrdom.