The Rashīdī History 4.4.4

4.4.4

It is about this period that Mirza Haidar's chronicle is at its weakest; and it is also a period where some of the best of the Musulman authors fail us. The Rauzat us Safa of Mir Khwand and the Zafar-Nama of Sharaf-ud-Din, both differ from the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, and the Ming history is at variance with all three. Thus between Khizir Khwaja and Vais Khan, the Rauzat us Safa and the Zafar-Nama show two reigning Khans of Moghulistan, and the Tarikh-i-Rashidi also gives accounts of two only, though the names in the last-mentioned work are not the same as in the other two histories. But the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, in another place, relates that six Khans, including Khizir Khwaja and Vais, were raised to the throne by the Dughlat Amir, Khudaidad, thus placing four between them. These Khans are— Shama-i-Jahan, Nakhsh-i-Jahan, Muhammad, Shir Muhammad, and the author states them in this order; so that the three which correspond with the names of those given in the Chinese histories, do not fall in the same succession. Again none of the Musulman authors supply the date of succession for any of the intermediate Khans whom they mention. The Chinese annals show three Khans for the period between Khizir Khwaja and Vais, and furnish the year of succession for each of them, besides giving dates of other contemporary occurrences, which indicate that a particular Khan was reigning at a particular time.