The Memoirs of Bābur 899.2.8

899.2.8

`Umar Shaikh Mīrzā's eldest daughter was Khān-zāda Begīm,[128] my full sister, five years older than I. The second time I took Samarkand (905AH.-1500AD.), spite of defeat at Sar-i-pul,[129] I went back and held it through a five months' siege, but as no sort of help or reinforcement came from any beg or ruler thereabouts, I left it in despair and got away; in that throneless time (_fatrat_) Khān-zāda Begīm fell[130] to Muḥammad _Shaibānī_ Khān. She had one child by him, a pleasant boy,[131] [Sidenote: Fol. 9.] named Khurram Shāh. The Balkh country was given to him; he went to God's mercy a few years after the death of his father (916AH.-1510AD.). Khān-zāda Begīm was in Merv when Shāh Ismā`īl (_Ṣafawī_) defeated the Aūzbegs near that town (916AH.-1510AD.); for my sake he treated her well, giving her a sufficient escort to Qūndūz where she rejoined me. We had been apart for some ten years; when Muḥammadī _kūkūldāsh_ and I went to see her, neither she nor those about her knew us, although I spoke. They recognized us after a time.