Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.2.4

79.2.4

The sum-total of it is that he wrote in a clumsy manner in an old worm-eaten book a spurious expression purporting to have emanated from Shaikh Ibn ‘Arabi (God sanctify his tomb!), to the effect that the Khalif of the age would have many wives, and would shave his beard; and he included many other peculiarities of the Emperor. So his Majesty became again propitiated, and admitted him once more among his courtiers. And according to report Haji Ibrahim had interpolated in an old pamphlet, one of the works of Mulla Abu Sa‘id, nephew of Miyan Panipati, a tradition to the effect that a son of one of the Companions of the Prophet came in shaven into his presence (God bless him, and his family, and grant them peace!), and that he said: “The people of Paradise will look like that.” When he took to boldly disputing with Shah Fath-ullah, and Shaikh Abu-l-Fazl, and Hakim Abu-l-Fath, and satirizing them, the Emperor sent him to the castle of Rintamb’hor. There he died; and after the razing of the fortress, they found his dead body, which was tied up with long strips of cloth, and the story got abroad that he had thrown himself down from the top of the fortress. This event took place in the year nine hundred and ninety-four:— “Last night our share in this world was in a garden like Paradise, But this morning we are without house, as if it had never been inhabited!”