Tarikh-i Hindi 16.2

16.2

During this year I'timadu-d daula Kamru-d din Khan, with 50,000 horse and many elephants and guns, moved towards Barha, the native place of the Saiyids, and sent 'Azimu-llah Khan Zahiru-d daula with a large army to precede him. 'Azimu-llah Khan, for fear of his life, placed several guns around him in the shape of a triangle. Saifu-d din 'Ali Khan, brother of Kutbu-l Mulk and Husain 'Ali Khan, who was the chief of Barha, with three hundred horse, boldly attacked that miserable body. When the Mughals fired their guns, a great number of the Saiyids were killed; but Saifu-d din 'Ali Khan, with a few other Saiyids, to avenge their death, drew out their swords, and repulsed the Mughals to the distance of three miles. Suddenly the wanderer of the forest of wretchedness and misfortune, by name 'Ali Muhammad, a Rohilla, at the direction of I'timadu-d daula, and with the hope of preferment, came from the rear with 20,000 Rohillas, and fell upon the Saiyids. Thus he sacrificed the good of the next world to the desires of this earth, and became the cause of victory to the Turanis. 'Azimu-llah Khan, having buried the Saiyids, returned to Dehli laden with immense plunder, and accompanied by I'timadu-d daula. It was just punishment of this crime of persecuting the Saiyids, that soon after they suffered the calamities occasioned by Nadir Shah.