Muntakhab al-tawarikh 55.3

55.3

Another is Shaikhu-l-Hadiyah Jaunpuri, the author of many worthy compositions and excellent books, who wrote a commentary extending over several volumes upon the Hedayah-i-Fiqh, while there is no need of mentioning his commentary on the Kafiyah: in addition to these he wrote notes upon the Tafsir-ion Usūl and other works, which are read up to the present day. Sultan Sikandar also collected together learned men from all parts of the country to instruct him, placing on one side Shaikh ‘Abdu-llāh, and Shaikh ‘Azīzu-llāh, and on the other Shaikh Lādan and his son Shaikh Bhikārī to discuss difficult points. Eventually it became clearly evident that the former pair of worthies were superior in oratory, while the two latter were the better writers. The death of Shaikh ‘Abdu-llāh occurred in the year 922 H., the following chronogram was invented to commemorate it: *‘Ulā lahumi ’l-darajātu ’l-‘ulā.* And among the poets of the time of Sikandar, was the aforesaid Jamālī Sambhalī of Dihlī, to whom Sultān Sikandar was in the habit of submitting verses which he had written, for his opinion. Speaking generally, he had many excellent points; he was a man who had travelled much, and had been honoured with the fellowship of our master the saintly Jāmī, *may God sanctify his resting-place*, and had gained many advantages from him and won his approbation, and was moreover in the habit of submitting his poems to that revered master. The following verses are by him: Verse.