The Rashīdī History 132.3

132.3

As both sides entertained such ideas as these, they became afraid of one another. That same night the Emperor pressed on to Kunduz, while Hamza Sultan fled to Hisar. After a few days, they each received the news of the other's flight, and both of them repeated, in thankfulness for their escape, the verse "Praise be to God who has averted from us an affliction." The Emperor, on reaching Kunduz, found that an ambassador had arrived from Shah Ismail, bearing tenders of friendship. In the meantime Khanzada Begum, the Emperor's sister, had come from Khorasan [having been sent by Shah Ismail]. It has been already related how the Emperor, at the siege of Samarkand, had given his sister, Khanzada Begum, to Shahi Beg Khan, as a ransom for his own life, and had thus escaped. The Begum was taken into Shahi Beg Khan's haram, and by him, had a son named Khurram Shah Sultan. After this, the Khan [Shahi Beg] began to fear that she might, in concert with her brother, plot against his life; he therefore divorced her, and gave her to Sayyid Hadi, one of the most eminent Sayyids of the Sayyid-ata — a man who was held in the greatest respect and honour by himself and the Sultans and all the Uzbeg. Sayyid Hadi had been killed in the battle of Merv, and the Begum and her son had fallen into the hands of the Turkomans. When Shah Ismail discovered that she was Babar Padishah's sister, he treated her with great attention, and sent her back, with an ambassador bearing costly gifts, to the Emperor.