Muntakhab al-tawarikh 46.3

46.3

(1389-90 A.D.) Shahzada Humayun Khan having called together many Amirs from the frontier of Samana to reinforce him laid waste the country round Dihli, engaged in battle in the neighbourhood of Panipath with 'Imadu-l-Mulk who had been sent by Abu Bakr (Shah) with four thousand cavalry to oppose him and being defeated retreated towards Samana. And in the month of Jamadiu-l-Awwal of the aforesaid year Abu Bakr Shah marched for Chaptar (Cintar) with a strong force with the object of opposing Muhammad Shah, and had encamped at a distance of twenty kuroh from Dihli, when Muhammad Shah with four thousand men, passing unobserved round his right flank, reached Dihli by another route and entered the palace of Humayun, where the populace both great and small declared in favour of him; Abu Bakr Shah pursued him and arrived at Dihli, and having put to death Malik Bahau-d-Din Jangi whom Muhammad Shah had left to guard the gates, without hesitation made for the palace of Humayun, and Muhammad Shah, being taken off his guard, was not able to oppose him and leaving by way of the door of the Hauz-i-Khass fled again with all haste to Chaptar (Chitar) his original abode and asylum.