Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.41.2

78.41.2

Then Aṣaf Khān and Mirzā Muḥammad Muqīm and Tīmūr Badakhshī, and Mīr Abū-l-ghays Bokhārī, and Mīr Muḥammad Ma'ṣūm Bakrī, &c. agreed that it would be the best plan (P. 245), leaving about 500 horse to guard the station, themselves to make a night attack on the enemy, and so anticipate him in his plans. Accordingly just at daybreak on the 4th of Zī-ḥijjah, in the year nine hundred and eighty-four (984), when they had proceeded 7 cosses, Rājah Narāin Dās met them coming in the opposite direction armed cap à pie, and immediately attacked them, and arrows and swords and javelins began flying in the air. And Mirzā Muḥammad Muqīm, who was in the van in advance of every one, in drinking the draught of martyrdom still showed his superiority. Defeat fell on the infidels, and they fled to a man and skulked like foxes in their holes. When the dispatch of Aṣaf Khān arrived, a farmān of commendation was issued to the officers of that army. In this year Mīr Sayyid Muḥammad Mīr'Adl, who had been appointed to the government of Bhakkar, sent Sayyid Abū-l-Faẓl and his other sons against Sahwī (?), and then reduced that fortress in a short space of time. And Mīr Sayyid Abu-l Qāsim son of Mīr Sayyid Qā'ish (who is one of the most important personages of Bhakkar and had come to do homage at Court) was raised to the rank of a body-guardsman. And this line gives the date:— “To the sons of the Prophet belongs the taking of Sahwī”.