The Memoirs of Bābur 915

915

915 AH.-APRIL 21ST 1509 TO APRIL 11TH 1510 AD.
In this year hostilities began between Shāh Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī_ and Muḥ. Shaibānī Khān _Aūzbeg_, news of which must have excited keen interest in Kābul.
In it occurred also what was in itself a minor matter of a child's safety, but became of historical importance, namely, the beginning of personal acquaintance between Bābur and his sympathetic biographer Ḥaidar Mīrzā _Dūghlāt_. Ḥaidar, like Sa`īd, came a fugitive to the protection of a kinsman; he was then eleven, had been saved by servants from the death commanded by Shaibānī, conveyed to Mīrzā Khān in Badakhshān, thence sent for by Bābur to the greater security of Kābul (f. 11; Index _s.n._; T.R. p. 227).