The Rashīdī History 112.1.6

112.1.6

When Sháhi Beg Khán reached Samarkand, Sháh Begum arrived from Moghulistán. The details are briefly these: Shah Begum was the mother of the Khans, was daughter of Shah Sultán Mahmud, King of Badakhshán, and of the race of Iskandar Zulkarnain. She had accompanied her son, Sultan Mahmud Khan, into Moghulistán. But those base advisers, of whom I have already spoken, provoked a quarrel between the mother and her son — a son who had been so obedient to her, that he had never even mounted for a ride without her permission. Between these two, they contrived to raise the dust of vexation and wrath. For they — cunning advisers that they were — decided to send Sháh Begum to Sháhi Beg Khán to solicit a country for herself, because she found living in Moghulistan distasteful. Such was the impracticable mission upon which they sent Sháh Begum. Now, as the Begum was a very sensible woman, she went under this pretext, and thus left her son, before those base advisers could bring about an open rupture, which would cause endless scandal and reproach to herself. The rumour was that she had gone to entreat [Shahi Beg Khán], while she was [in reality] in Samarkand enjoying the company of her children. At this same time [Sháhi Beg Khan] led an army into Khwárizm, and my father fled to Khorásan, as shall be presently related.