The Rashīdī History 137.6

137.6

This important victory caused the Uzbeg to keep the foot of reflection yet longer within the skirt of hesitation. Following this event, news arrived of the defeat which Hamza Sultan had suffered from Bábar Pádishah, and of his death, by the Emperor's order, after the battle [which has been mentioned]. A short time afterwards, intelligence was received of the Emperor's march on Samarkand and his reception by its inhabitants; also that the Uzbeg, who were in the city, had taken flight and therefore were unable to surround him. After these occurrences, the Emperor and the Khan reigned absolute in Samarkand and Andijan, respectively. Sháh Ismail returned to Irak. The Emperor gave Kabul and Ghaznin to his younger brother, Sultán Nasir Mirza. The Uzbeg all collected together in Turkistan. The rest of the events that ensued will, please God, be recounted below—how, for example, the Khan and Sultán Khalil Sultán came, one after the other, to Andijan. Sultan Khalil Sultan left one son, who was still at the breast, named Baba Sultan; and the wife of the Khan, who has been mentioned above, was with child, at the time when the Khan was put to flight by Khwaja Ali Bahadur the Uzbeg: she fell into the hands of the Uzbeg, and after a short time was delivered of a son. The Khan arrived in Kabul at the same moment as this news. The Emperor said to the Khan: "As your illustrious name is Said, it would be very suitable to call him [the child] Abdur Rashid," and the Khan decided upon that name.