Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 2.3

2.3

In order to secure himself from further depredation, Feroze [the Umras of Sultan Muhammad, oppressed with a thousand fears and alarms] led the army to Sevustan, commonly called Sehwan, and during the night took every possible precaution to defend himself (themselves,) against the Moguls, and thought rest and sleep a forbidden indulgence. Meanwhile the officers of his army, Makhdum-zada 'Abbasi Sheikh-u-Sheiyuk Nasi-u-din Mahmud, and U'dhi, better known as Chiragh Dehli, and other wise and holy men, grandees and chiefs, all with one accord having waited on Malik Feroze Barbek, represented that the late King had constituted him his successor, and that no other nobleman was more worthy of the honour, and entreated him not to reject the cares of state, but to ascend the throne, to which, after some hesitation, and declaring that he would proceed on a pilgrimage to the two holy cities and Hijaz, when he could no longer resist their importunities, he gave his assent, and was accordingly proclaimed King on the twenty-third of Muharram, after he had passed through more than fifty stages of his illustrious life.