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Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 46 - **Language:** English ### ABU BAKR SHAH IBN ZAFAR KHAN \[IBN FATH KHAN\] IBN FIRUZ SHAH. ### [46.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.46.1) After the martyrdom of Tughlaq Shah, by the ill-judged agreement of the Amirs assumed the Government under the above title, and at the commencement of his reign distributed appointments among the Amirs, and raised Ruknu-d-Din Chanda to the dignity of Wazir, and eventually, when he heard that Ruknu-d-Din in concert with certain of the Amirs, was plotting sedition, and entertained ambitious designs upon the kingdom, got rid of him together with his following, taking possession of his elephants and treasure, obtained complete hold over Dihli and increased in power daily. In the meantime the Amirs of hundreds of Samana cut to pieces Malik Sultan Shah Khushdil, the Amir of Samana, who had been sent against the Sultan Muhammad Shah to the country at the foot of the hills, at the head of the reservoir of Samana and sacked his house, and sending his head to the Shahzada Muhammad Shah at Nagarkot invited him to come; Muhammad Shah accordingly left Nagarkot, and came to Samana by way of Jalandhar by continuous marches, and having gathered together the ... paraphernalia of royal magnificence for the second time the standard of royalty in the month of Rabi'ul Awwal in the year 791 H. ### [46.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.46.2) (1389 A.D.) and in the following month of Rabi'ul Akhir of the same year, set out to capture Dihli with a force of 50,000 and alighted at the palace of Jahan Numa, where he bestowed upon the Amirs suitable appointments, among others he conferred upon the Governor of Multan the title of Ghazi Khan, and Abu Bakr Shah having raised an army for the assistance of Bahadur Nahir Khanzada of Mewat, on the (2nd) of Jamadiul Awwal of the aforesaid year engaged in battle on the plains of Firuzabad with Muhammad Shah and gained the day. Muhammad Shah, with two thousand cavalry, crossed the river Jamna and entered the Doab, and sent Humayun Khan his younger son to Samana, and having obtained thence a great following and the requirements of sovereignty, and taking with him certain Amirs of Hindustan with fifty thousand cavalry, a second time marched his standards towards Dihli. As it chanced he became engaged in battle with Abu Bakr Shah and was again defeated, and Abu Bakr Shah pursued him part of the way, but considered it an excellent opportunity to return. Muhammad Shah arrived at Chaptar, which is a town on the banks of the Ganges, and giving over his following to destruction once more attempted to fight. And in the month of Muharram of the year 792 H. ### [46.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.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. ### [46.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.46.4) Many of his noted Amirs and of his body servants were put to death, and although Sultan Muhammad Shah was no longer able to stand against Abu Bakr Shah, still the soldiery and people were very ill-disposed towards Abu Bakr Shah, so that in the month of Ramazan in the aforesaid year, Mubashir Chap and some of the slaves of Firuz Shah’s party who had been promoted to the rank of Amir, and for one reason or another bore a grudge against Abu Bakr Shah, opened a secret correspondence with Muhammad Shah, and invited him; Abu Bakr Shah when he came to know of this was utterly dumbfounded, and under pretext of asking assistance from Bahadur Nahir set his face to go to Kotila of Miwat, and set out leaving Malik Shahin and ‘Imadu-l-Mulk and Malik Bahri and Safdar Khan in Dihli; then Muhammad Shah in obedience to the invitation of the Amirs entered Dihli for the third time and ascended the throne of royalty in the palace of Firuzabad with great ceremony; and Mubashir Chap, having received the title of Islam Khan, was promoted to the rank of Vazir, and after some time he left Firuzabad and went to the palace of Humayun, Jahan (Numa), and gave orders for the slaves of the Firuzi party who had been a source of disturbance in the days of tumult and riot to be put to death without distinction, and many of the free men also, who came from the eastern quarters of Hindustan were taken for slaves by reason of the imperfection of their pronunciation, and were put to the sword. ### [46.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.46.5) (Abu Bakr Shah after this misfortune could not recover himself, and remained at the Kotila (of Mewat) fast as he was till Muhammad Shah by continuous marches came against him, and Bahadar Nahir Mewati and Abu Bakr Shah who had taken refuge with him, after fighting for a long time begged for quarter and had an interview with Sultan Muhammad Shah Bahadar Nahir received a robe of honour and other marks of favour, but they imprisoned Abu Bakr Shah in the fort of Mirath. In that self-same prison he escaped from the prison-house of the world. This event took place in the year 793 H. (1390-91 A.D.): the duration of the reign of Abu Bakr Shah was a year and a half. Verse. He reckoned certain days and then he came to nothing The time smiled to think that he too had passed away. Verse. 262. This world is like a corpse upon which there are thousands of vultures \[One continually tears another with its talons, The other rends it constantly with its beak\] At last, they all take to flight and All that remains of them all is the corpse. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.46) · Pramāṇa