Muntakhab al-tawarikh 33.3.5

33.3.5

The Sultan whose health was upset and his brain disordered and disposed to entertain absurd prejudices in according with the saying “When a man’s health is disordered his fancies are disordered,” from his great lack of discrimination taking this suggestion as the actual fact, and regarding this assertion as the truth, instantly gave orders for the execution of Alp Khan. Malik Naib and Malik Kamalu-d-Din Gurg seizing that unhappy wretch like a meek lamb, cut him to pieces inside the Royal palace. After that Malik Naib induced the Sultan (on the ground that Khizr Khan had taken alarm at the murder of his uncle and that it was not expedient for him to return to his own place in the court), to issue instructions that, to allow of the restoration of order in the State, he should go for some time to Amroha till a command should issue summoning him to the presence. In the meantime he might engage in hunting, and he was to return to the Court his canopy and staff of office, and all the other insignia of royalty. Khizr Khan having obeyed this order with a sad and distracted heart, after a little while relying upon the sincerity of affection he entertained for his father and the confidence between them, wrote to him to this effect, that he had never committed any breach of trust which could cause the Sultan to be so wroth with him; then overcome by sorrow he determined to leave Amroha for Dihli.