[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 55.2 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 55.2 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 55.2 - **Language:** English ### [55.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.55.2) I heard also from my masters, that more than forty expert and profoundly learned men have arisen from among the disciples of Shaikh ‘Abdu-llāh, for example, Miyān Lādan, Jamāl Khān of Dihlī, Miyān Shaikh of Gwāliyār, Mīrān Saiyyid Jalāl of Badāūn, and others. They say also that Sulṭān Sikandar, during the instruction of the aforesaid Shaikh ‘Abdu-llāh, used to come and seat himself quietly in a corner unseen by the rest, fearing lest he should interrupt the lesson of the other students, and when the lesson was ended they used to exchange the customary salutation of Salām ‘alaikum and mix freely with each other. And Shaikh ‘Azīzu-llāh of Ṭulambah, who was a man of great probity and rectitude, had such an abundant genius and marvellous power of recollection that no matter how difficult or minute the subject-matter of a book which a student of intelligence might be reading he would give his lesson in it without previously reading it; and that time after time when they came up for examination, and propounded the most inscrutable problems, the learned Shaikh would explain them on the instant while giving his lesson. One of his pupils was Miyan Hatim Sanbali, who is commonly said to have read the Commentary on the Miftah more than thirty times in the course of his life, and the Mutawwal more than forty times, from the first letter of the Bism'illah to the last of the word Tammat. - [Previous: 55.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.55.1) - [Next: 55.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.55.3) - [Up: 55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.55) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.55.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.55.2) · Pramāṇa