The Rashīdī History 180: CHAPTER LXIII. · CELEBRATION OF THE MARRIAGES OF AIMAN KHWAJA SULTAN AND SHAH MUHAMMAD SULTAN.

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When Aiman Khwaja Sultan came from Turfan, he asked my uncle's daughter in marriage. My uncle willingly granted his request, and from that time forward was busy with preparations for the event. This winter the marriage festivities began.
Shah Muhammad, son of Sultan Muhammad Sultan, son of Sultan Muhammad Khan, was still a child when his father and grandfather, together with many others, were put to death by Shahi Beg Khan. One of the Uzbeg Amirs, taking pity on him, saved him. When the Emperor went from Kabul to Kunduz, that Uzbeg sent off Shah Muhammad Sultan to Kunduz, where he joined the Emperor, and remained in his service until the latter returned to Kabul, when he obtained permission to join the Khan in Kashghar. [This was] one year after the conquest of Kashghar. The Khan treated him as a son and honoured him even above Baba Sultan, his brother's son, and Rashid Sultan, his own son. While the festivities in honour of Aiman Khwaja Sultan's marriage with my uncle's daughter were proceeding, it occurred to the Khan to give in marriage to Shah Muhammad Sultan, his sister Khadija Sultan Khanim, whose story has been already related. After Jahangir Mirza, son of Mirza Aba Bakr, had been assassinated by some unknown hand, this Khadija Sultan Khanim, having survived him, had remained, respected and honoured, in the Khan's haram.
Thus these two important marriages were celebrated at one time.
When some time had been passed in feasting and rejoicing, an assembly of all the nobles, great men and pillars of the State, was convened, who, in the first place, fastened the marriage knot of the daughter of the Khan with Aiman Khwaja Sultan, and after that, of Khadija Sultan Khanim (my maternal uncle's daughter, and the Khan's full sister) with Shah Muhammad Sultan. . . . At the same time I built myself a house, and by way of compliment, some learned men invented chronograms to commemorate the date of the event [923=1517].