The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 25: XIX. ‘Ayisha-sultan Begam [Mirza-shahi]

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Daughter of Kamran Mirza.
Firishta (lith. ed., 241) and Khafi Khan (I. 122) say that Kamran left one son and three daughters.
The son is called Ibrahim [by] Gul-badan, and in the early part of the Akbar-nama (Bib. Ind., ed., I. 220). Later the A. N. and other sources call him Abu’l-qasim, which may be a byonymic (kunyat).
As to the three girls, Firishta, without naming them, gives the information that No. 1 married (a) Ibrahim Husain Mirza (Bayqra) No. 2 „ (b) Mirza ‘Abdu-r-rahman Mughal No. 3 „ (c) Fakhru-d-din Mashhadi who died in 986H. or 987H. (No. 88 of Blochmann’s list Ain-i-akbari, p. 406).
Khafi Khan’s information coincides with Firishta’s verbally as to No. 3, and actually as to No. 1 and No. 2. For Ibrahim can be described as a son of a ‘paternal uncle,’ if these words are used in the wide sense given to them by contemporary writers. So, too, can ‘Abdu-r-rahman, if he be No. 188 of Blochmann’s list—a Dughlat Mughal and cousin of Mirza Haidar.
If we take the girls’ names from other sources we can (conjecturally in part) fill up the table:
1. Gul-rukh is known in history as the wife of Ibrahim Husain Mirza Bayqra.
2. Kamran’s eldest daughter, Habiba, was forcibly parted from her husband, Aq Sultan, in about 971-82, and this would allow remarriage to (b) or (c). Aq Sultan went to Makka from Sind 981-72 (cir.), and his name disappears thenceforth.
3. ‘Ayisha may also have married (b) or (c).
In the list of the pilgrims of 983H. (A. N. Bib. Ind. ed., III 145) are included 'Haji and Gul-'izar, farzandan of Mirza Kamran.' We have already the three names required by Firishta and Khafi Khan, i.e. Gul-rukh, Habiba and 'Ayisha. Gul-'izar is 'superfluous.' Perhaps farzandan may be read 'offspring,' and she may be a granddaughter. Or Habiba or 'Ayisha may have predeceased Kamran, and for this reason three girls only be specified by historians who wrote of the time of his death.
Which one of the daughters was the Haji Begam of 983H is not clear. It would seem that this was her second pilgrimage, since she is enrolled as Haji before starting. Kamran's daughters may have gone — one or all — to Makka after his blinding and during the four years of his life there. Of the three, Gul-rukh is the only one of whom it is on record that she was widowed in 983 H., and therefore quite free to make the Hajj Ibrahim Husain died in 981H. (1573). Haji Begam was visited by Akbar and she died in 991H. (1583).
Gul-badan, 77a, 78a. Akbar-nama, III. 146, 378, 875.