Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.40.8

78.40.8

When I brought them into his presence, the Emperor evinced great pleasure, and calling Hafiz Muhammad Amin he said to him in joke: “They have brought me a pocket-Qur’an from somewhere or other, I make it a present to you” Hafiz recognizing it, was extremely delighted, and making profuse and boundless bows and prostrations by way of thanks, said: Your Majesty the very same day said to Sayyid ‘Abdullah Khan, 'If God will, you will find it, it can’t be really lost." When the Emperor enquired of the author the circumstances of its discovery, I replied: “A company of labourers, who in some of the villages of Basawar are occupied in digging wells and tanks &c., and who under pretext of this occupation do a little in highway robbery had stolen these articles. But one of them, having had a difference with his companion brought word to Sayyid 'Abdullah Khan, so that he was able to seize them all, and so they confessed the thefts they had committed. Then the Emperor said to Hāfiz; "If God will, the rest of the articles will also be found, so be of good cheer!” To this he replied: “I have attained my wish in the recovery of my Qur’an and note-book, which I teemed as an inheritance from my father and grandfather, and I cannot compose sermons myself. For the other things I don’t care much." And eventually (P.