Muntakhab al-tawarikh 66.2.5

66.2.5

When the despatch from ‘Ali Quli Khan reached the Court together with the head of Qambar, the king, whose refuge is the mercy of God, was extremely annoyed. Just about this time, on the seventh of the month of Rabi‘u-l-Awwal, in the year 963 H., when Humayun had ascended to the roof of the library which he had built in the fortress of Dinpanah in Dihli, as he was coming down, the mu’azzin uttered the call to prayer, and he knelt out of respect for the Azan, and as he rose his staff glanced aside and his foot slipped, and he rolled down several steps to the ground. When he recovered a little, Nazar Shaikh Juli was sent to the Panjab to summon the Prince and to tell him exactly what had happened, and on the fifteenth of the same month (Humayun) bade farewell to this inconstant world and took his way to the abode of eternity: and this tārīkh was written to commemorate the event: Since by the mercy of God he passed to his rest within the garden of Rizwan, Bihisht amad maqam-i-pāk-i-u gives the date: and Maulana Qasim Kahi wrote as follows— Humayun, Padshah of the kingdom of reality, No one remembers such an Emperor as he; Suddenly he fell from the roof of his palace And from that fall his precious life was lost; Kahi made a calculation for the tārīkh of that event, Humayun az bām uftād. The following was also found to give the date: Be not ignorant of the year of his death — Humayun kuja raft wa iqbal-i-u. The following tarikh was also found: Ah! Ah! Padshah-i-ma az bam uftad.