The Memoirs of Bābur 935.3.5

935.3.5

(_Nov. 21st_) On Sunday the 9th of the first Rabī`, Beg Muḥammad _ta`alluqchī_[2332] came, who had been sent last year (934 AH.) at the end of Muḥarram to take a dress of honour and a horse to Humāyūn.[2333] (_Nov. 22nd_) On Monday the 10th of the month there came from Humāyūn's presence Wais _Lāgharī's_ (son) Beg-gīna (Little Beg) and Bīān Shaikh, one of Humāyūn's servants who had come as the messenger of the good tidings of the birth of Humāyūn's son whose name he gave as Al-amān. Shaikh Abū'l-wajd found _Shăh sa`ādatmand_[2334] to be the date of his birth. [Sidenote: Fol. 347.] (_v. Rapid travel._) Bīān Shaikh set out long after Beg-gīna. He parted from Humāyūn on Friday the 9th of Ṣafar (_Oct. 23rd_) at a place below Kishm called Dū-shaṃba (Monday); he came into Āgra on Monday the 10th of the first Rabī` (_Nov. 23rd_). He came very quickly! Another time he actually came from Qila`-i-ẕafar to Qandahār in 11 days.[2335] (_w. News of T̤ahmāsp's victory over the Aūzbegs._) Bīān Shaikh brought news about Shāh-zāda T̤ahmāsp's advancing out of `Irāq and defeating the Aūzbeg.[2336] Here are his particulars:—Shāh-zāda T̤ahmāsp, having come out of `Irāq with 40,000 men arrayed in Rūmī fashion of matchlock and cart,[2337] advances with great speed, takes Basṯām, slaughters Rīnīsh (var.