Muntakhab al-tawarikh 79.7.2

79.7.2

When Ma'sum Khan Farankhudi had become thoroughly bewildered and forlorn in the mountains of Sawalik through the intervention of A‘zam Khan he made confession of his fault, and received a farman of pardon. He came and did homage at Fathpur. Some days afterwards he left the Darbar at midnight, and mounting a litter was setting off on his return home, when an armed troop fell upon him outside the gates of the city, and cut him in pieces. Niyabat also, by the intervention of the imperial Begum, on the very day that Ma'sum did homage, was admitted to His Majesty’s presence. The Emperor, to please his uncle Shihab-ud-din Ahmad Khan, governor of Malwah, spared his life for some time and sent him to the fortress of Rintamb’hor. There he was confined, and performed many exploits, which we cannot now relate. In conjunction with his fellow-prisoners of that place he attempted a great outbreak. Eventually in the year nine hundred and ninety-seven the Emperor sent a farmán, and had him executed. At this time Haji Begum, who was a second mother to the Emperor, and attended on the tomb of the late Emperor, a very pillar of holiness, and purity, and virtue, and good works, hastened to the world of eternity. And the greatest distress fell upon the guardians of the tomb, and the dwellers in that holy place.