The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 85: XCIX. Khan-zada Begam Miran-shahi.
The History of Humāyūn (A. S. Beveridge) 85
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Daughter of ’Umar Shaikh Mirza and of Qut-luq-nigar Khanam; full-sister of Babar and five years his senior. Eldest of her father’s daughters. She is recorded as thrice married: first, to Shaibani in 1501 (907H.); secondly, to a man of inferior rank, Sayyid Hada; and, thirdly, to Mahdi Muhammad Khwaja, son of Musa Khwaja. One child of hers is recorded, Shaibani’s son, Khurram-shah Sultan.
She was born circa 1478 (883H.). This is known from the statement of her brother that she was five years his senior. In 1501 (907H.) she was married by Shaibani when he captured Samarqand from Babar. Gul-badan makes the marriage a condition of Shaibani’s peace with Babar; Haidar says she was given in exchange for Babar’s life; and Khafi Khan, as a ransom (ba tariq-i-fada). She was in Shaibani’s power and could have been married without consent of Babar. As in 1501 she was twenty-three years old, she had almost certainly been married before, possibly to Mahdi. Her marriage arrangements with Shaibani might include the divorce which the Musalman law requires. Babar does not go into details as to the marriage; he says she fell into Shaibani’s hands. Presumably as himself of Timurid birth, Shaibani would treat a Timurid woman with respectful forms even when she was spoil of battle. To marry Khan-zada, he divorced her maternal aunt, Mihr-nigar Chaghatai.
Khan-zada's son by Shaibani, Khurram-shah, died a young man. Shaibani divorced her because she leaned to her brother’s side in disputed matters; then gave her in marriage to a certain Sayyid Hada, who fell in the battle of Merv with Shaibani himself. In 1511 and at the age of thirty-three, she was returned to Babar by Shah Ismail. At what date she married Mahdi Muhammad Khwaja I am not able to say. It is probable that the marriage would take place within no long time after her return. As Mahdi is never described by Babar in any way (as is his custom when a actor comes upon the scene of his Memoirs), it is probable that Mahdi's joining Babar and his marriage with Khan-zada took place in the decade 1508-19, of which no record is known to survive. Mahdi was with Babar in 1519 (925 H.), and is frequently mentioned subsequently.
There are many references to Khan-zada by Gul-badan who frequently calls her Dearest Lady (Aka-janam). She died at Qabal-chak in 1545 (952 H.), aged about sixty-seven years, and after a life full of sorrows and chagrins.
Gul-badan, 8b, 15b, 18b, 23b, 24b, 27b, 28b, 50b, 62b, 68a Mems., 10, 98, 241 (Supplement) Tar. Rash., E. & E., 117, 155, 175, 196, 239, 400 Habibu-s-siyar, under date 928 H. Khafi Khan, I. 33 (here Khana-zada).