The Book of Akbar 376.4.2

376.4.2

In fine, his companions were disconcerted and confused at this and dispersed, and Bairām Khan lay in the dust and in his blood till some faquirs and poor men lifted up his bloody corpse and committed it to earth in the precincts of the tomb of Shaikh Hisām who was one of the great Shaikhs of his time. On the day of Bad 22 Bahman, Divine month, corresponding to Friday 14th Jumada-al-awal 968, 31st January 1561, this catastrophe occurred. Qasim Arslān made the following chronogram:— Verse. When Bairām donned the pilgrim’s dress to visit the K‘aaba His martyrdom by the way fulfilled his object. An invisible angel uttered this chronogram Shahid shud Muhammad Bairám. (Muhammad Bairám became a martyr, 968). Afterwards the body was removed to Mashhad by the exertions of Husain Quli Khan the Khan Jahan and buried there. On the occasion of this strange catastrophe the vagabonds of Pattan plundered Bairam Khan’s camp, and left nothing undone in the way of insolence. The horror of the murder produced great affliction among the people of the deceased. Muhammad Amin Diwana, Babai Zambur and Khwaja Mulk brought away ‘Abdu-r-rahim, Bairam Khan’s heir, and who was then four years old, from the scene of the catastrophe along with his mother and some servants, and went off to Ahmadabad. A crowd of Afghan wretches quickly followed them, and the unfortunate sufferers had to fight the whole of their way through to Ahmadabad.