The Rashīdī History 3.2.7

3.2.7

In recording his own descent, Mirza Haidar describes himself as the son of Muhammad Husain Kurkan, son of Muhammad Haidar Kurkan, son of Amir-i-Kabir Said Ali, son of Amir Ahmad, son of Khudaidad, son of Amir Bulaji. He was born in the year of the Hajra 905 (1499-1500 a.d.) at Tashkand, the capital of the province then known as Shash, where his father, Husain, had been made governor some six years before, by Mahmud, the titular Khan of Moghulistan and Kashghar. The others named in the pedigree were all Amirs of Kashghar, while the earliest of them, Bulaji of the Dughlat tribe, is remembered as being the first of the line to become a Musulman. It was on the side of his mother, Khub Nigar Khanim, that our author was related to the Emperor Baber. She was a daughter of Yunus, Khan of the Moghuls, and a younger sister of Kutlugh Nigar Khanim, the mother of Baber. Mirza Haidar began his life in the midst of strife and adventures. His father — a treacherous and intriguing man — had been convicted of a mischievous plot against Baber at Kabul, but had been pardoned on account of his blood relationship. Shortly afterwards he had fallen into the hands of Shahi Beg Khan (otherwise Shaibani Khan), the Uzbeg leader, and had incurred that chief's suspicion also ; but once more he was permitted to escape, and repaired to Herat, then the capital of Khorasan.