The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 4.2.7

4.2.7

Another cause of friction lay in the presence of a former wife of Husain with Humayun's household. In 1524 Husain had allied himself with Khalifa's family by marrying his daughter Gul-barg. As the fact adds to the domestic complication, it may be mentioned that at the same time Husain's stepdaughter, Nahid, the child of Qasim and Mah-chuchak, married Khalifa's son, Muhibb-'ali. Husain and Gul-barg (Rose-leaf) did not get on well, and she left him after what Mir Ma'sum calls two years of wedded life. She then, says the same author, went to India with Hazrat Jannat-ashyani (Humayun) "previous to the شکست" (defeat). This last word is frequently used of the rout at Chausa in 1539, but the next nearest catastrophe to which it would apply after 1524 is the death of Babar, because Gul-barg is named by Gul-badan in Humayun's household shortly after his accession. She was with him in Sind in 1541 onwards, and so, too, was Sultanam, who was perhaps her mother, and both were unlikely to make the best of Shah Husain to Humayun.