Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.11.6

79.11.6

At the recommendation of Hakim Abu-l-Fath the compilation of the work from the thirty-sixth year was entrusted solely to Mulla Ahmad of Tat’hah, who, however, wrote whatever coincided with his sectarian prejudices, a fact which is well known. The compilation of two volumes was finished up to the time of Changiz Khan, when Mirza Fulad one night, pretending that the Emperor had sent for Mulla Ahmad, summoned him from his house, and murdered him in a street of Lahor, in revenge for some injury which he had suffered at his hands, as well as because he was violently opposed to him in matters of religion. He was put to death in retaliation. The remainder of the work was done by Açaf Khan up to the year nine hundred and ninety-seven. In the year one thousand I was ordered to proceed to Lahore, to revise the composition, compare it with other histories, and arrange the dates in their proper sequence. I composed the first two volumes in one year, and entrusted the third to Açaf Khan.