Muntakhab al-tawarikh 61.3.6

61.3.6

[It is said that the following was the reason of his escaping, the sister of Kawal Khan, who had been united by marriage to Islem Shah, became aware of the conference and sent word to her brother, saying This very night they intend to blow up the prisoners with gunpowder. She also sent from inside (the palace) four quilts stuffed with cotton, and several skins of water. Kawal Khan poured quantities of water upon the quilts, and under pretence of taking a bath betook himself into a corner, apart from his friends, and rolling himself up in the quilts had gone to sleep when they set fire to the room, and all were burned to ashes, but he alone remained alive beneath the quilt. In the morning Islem Shah came to inspect that prison-house, and seeing Kawal Khan alive said It is right for me to release you seeing that fire had no power over you.] Then Islem Shah having made him take an oath that he would never again oppose him, released him, and appointed him to assist the Governor of the Panjab to conquer the country of the Ghakkars [where he arrived with all honour]. In short Sa'id Khan, who had been a witness of this sudden death, gave orders in obedience to which post horses were tied up along the road to Lahor, so that he travelled the distance between Agra and Lahor within three nights. Day by day the scale turned more and more in favour of the Niyazi faction, and A'zam Humayun read the khutbah in his own name in Lahor.