The Akbarī Generations 5.3

5.3

When Humayun marched to Hindustan, he consigned the government of Kabul and Ghazni to Mun'im Khan, one of his chief nobles, and he also made him guardian (atalik) of his son, Mirza Muhammad Hakim. He also left there all his ladies. The city of Kandahar and its dependent territories were the jagir of Bairam Khan Khan-khanan. By the kindness of His Majesty the government of Badakhshan was consigned to Mirza Sulaiman, son of Khan Mirza, son of Sultan Mahmud, son of Mirza Sultan Abu Sa'id Gurgan. When the intelligence of the facts (of the death) of Humayun reached Mirza Sulaiman, ambitious designs took hold of him, and, with his son Mirza Ibrahim, he marched against Kabul, and laid siege to it. Mun'im Khan wrote a full report of all the facts of the matter, and sent it to the Emperor. But before his despatch arrived, Akbar had sent Muhammad Kuli Birlas, and some other nobles, to Kabul, to fetch the ladies who had been left there. When the news of the siege of Kabul arrived, an imperative farman was issued, directing these nobles to make all haste to Kabul, and to raise the siege. When these nobles passed the Nilab (Indus), Mirza Sulaiman saw that he could effect nothing by hostile means, so he employed as an intermediary Kazi Khan Badakhshi, who was one of his confidential nobles, and one of the holy men of the time, to inform Mun'im Khan that if his name were recited in the khutba, he would take his departure.