[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 70 # The Rashīdī History 70: CHAPTER XLIV. · KHANSHIP OF DUST MUHAMMAD KHAN. The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 70 - **Language:** English ### [70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.70) When Isan Bugha Khan died (a natural death) he was succeeded by his son Dust Muhammad Khan, who was then seventeen years of age. He was an eccentric youth, and his actions were unreasonable. He was never for a moment in his senses. He much affected the ways of Kalandars, and gave himself and all his Amirs such names as are usually borne by Kalandars. His own name was Shams Abdal, and in the same way, all his courtiers and public officers were called Abdál this and Abdál that, and had to transact their business under these names. He was, moreover, excessively generous. He reigned seven years. During this time he made expeditions against Yarkand and Káshghar. First of all he attacked Yárkand, where, after the death of Sániz Mirzá, the Amirs had shut themselves up in the citadel. The Khán asked them to surrender the widow of Sániz Mirzá: when she had been given up to him, he asked for the children, of whom they sent the eldest son Mirza Abá Bakr. He then ceased hostilities, and went on to Káshghar. At the time when he had set out against Yarkand, Muhammad Haidar Mirzá, upon the entreaty of the people of Káshghar, proceeded to their town. When the Khan neared Kashghar, Muhammad Haidar Mirzá set out to meet him; the Khan sent him to Yangi Hisár, while he himself entered Kashghar, and when he had plundered it, he returned to Aksu. In consequence of this, Muhammad Haidar Mirza was much enraged, and went over to the side of Yunus Khán (as will be mentioned below). Soon after Dust Muhammad Khán's return to Aksu, he gave his sister, Husn Nigár Khánim, to Mirzá Abá Bakr in marriage. But Mirza Aba Bakr was much alarmed at the unbalanced state of the Khán's mind, and finally fled to his noble uncle Muhammad Haidar Mirza, in Kashghar, whither his wife was, soon after, permitted to follow him. Not long after this, the Khan fell in love with one of his father's wives, and in consequence tried to obtain permission from the Ulama for an alliance with her. He put to death seven of the Ulamá in succession, who decided against the union. At length the Khan came to Maulana Muhammad Attar, reeling with drunkenness and with a sword in his hand, and said to him: "I want to marry my own mother; is it lawful or not?" The Maulana, who was one of the most learned of the darvishes and a most pious man, said to the Khan: "For such a one as you it is lawful." So the Khan immediately ordered preparations for the marriage to be made. But on the night of the nuptials he saw his father, in a dream, mounted on a black horse, who, coming up to him, said: "Oh! wretched one, in that after we have for one hundred years been Musulmans, thou shouldst apostasise and become an infidel." \[His father\] shot him below the ribs with an arrow, then dismounting, he rubbed his hand on the bottom of a kettle, and blackened the Khán's face, who thereupon awoke, in alarm. Breathless and penitent, he rushed out of the house of his mother and washed himself. He was seized with an acute pain in the side, which, in the morning, developed into fever. The people sent for Maulána Muhammad Attar, and said to him: "It was you who granted the fatwá, \[decree legalising this marriage\]." The Khan said: "Do not blame the Maulana; for I had already killed seven persons when I asked his opinion, so what could the poor Mulla do?" But the Maulana said: "I gave you no fatwa, I simply said that \[the marriage\] was lawful for an infidel such as you are." Dust Muhammad Khan was next seized with pleurisy \[Zat-ul-janb\] and died after six days' illness at the age of forty, in the year 873 \[1468-9\]. Khwaja Sharif of Kashghar devised the following chronogram on his death: "TJ Khuk murd": that pig died. He had reigned seven years. On his death great disorder ensued. He left one son, Kabak Sultan Oghlan, who was seized by some of the people and carried away to Turfan and Chalish, while Yunus Khan came down and captured Aksu. - [Previous: 69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.69) - [Next: 71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.71) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.70) · Pramāṇa