Muntakhab al-tawarikh 64.2

64.2

The author of this Muntakhab, who was at that time accompanying his father, now deceased, was in the twelfth year of his age and had gone to Sambhal to study, wrote this chronogram: Chi bas khub karda and (How well have they done!). Before that he could convey the news to his teacher, the prince of learned men, the guide of connoisseurs, the exemplar of the intelligent, the master of masters, the Miyan Hatim of Sambhal, this tidings had already reached him. At the time when he was by way of benediction and blessing giving instruction in the Kanz-i-Fiqh, he said, "Count the letters of this tarikh which I have spoken without forethought, fathha-i asmani." I replied nine hundred and sixty, which is one unit short. He answered, "I said it with the hamza of Izafat that is to say, fathha-i-asmani which is in conformity with the ancient spelling in respect to the value of letters and in this way it is correct." He gave his blessing, and fixed a time for the lesson, and adding a few pages, written with his own hand to the pages which I had written containing the instruction of the Qazi, gave them to me as a souvenir, and entrusted my instruction to Miyan Shaikh Abul Fath, the son of Shaikh-allahdiyah of Khairabad, may God be merciful to him, who is now seated on the throne of instruction and guidance in the room of his father;