Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.46.1

78.46.1

In this year Ma'sum Khan, foster-brother of Mirza Hakim, who was a brave youth, and was always performing valiant deeds, being vexed with the Mirza came and did homage to the Emperor. He gave him a command of 500 and appointed him to the district of Bihár. There he fought a battle with Kálá Pahár, a general distinguished among the Afgháns for his might and prowess, and gained the victory over him. The Emperor from Fatḥpūr sent him a farmān making him a manṣabdār of 1,000, together with a present of a horse and a dress of honour from his own wardrobe. They say that he saw in a dream the glorified ‘Alī (may God be gracious to his countenance!) so distinctly, that you would have said that the blessed hand had struck him on the back. Through this blessing he never turned his back from the foe; and the mark of the hand is visible on his back to this day:— “What fear of the waves of the sea is there To him, who has Noah for his pilot.”