Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.2.1

77.2.1

During the first days of the Accession ‘Ali Quli Khan, having received the title of Khan Zaman, led an army into the district of Sambhal against Shadi Khan the Afghan, who was one of the Amirs of ‘Adali.’ (P. 13.) And on the banks of the river Rahab he fought a severe battle against all Khān Zamān’s available force, which consisted of two or three thousand horse, and defeated him. Khān Zamān was making preparations to dislodge the enemy, when, in the mean-while, letters came from Dihli, Agra, and Atāwa, saying, that Hēmun Baqqāl with a murderous army, and elephants, and much wealth furnished by ‘Adali, having swept before him the Amirs from the frontiers of Hindustan, had arrived close to Dihli with the intention of offering battle. Then Iskandar Khan the Uzbek from Agra, and Qiyā Khān Kank from Atawa, and ‘Abdu-llah Khan the Uzbek from Kalpi, and Haidar Muhammad Khan from Biyana, and others from the frontiers, came to Dihli, and joined themselves to Tardi Beg Khan. But Khan Zaman, remaining on the same side of the river Jumna, was not able to form a junction with them. And Pir Muhammad Khan Shirwani, who had come from the imperial camp with a message to Tardi Beg Khan, went along with the victorious army.