The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 22.6.4

22.6.4

I told them to do whatever was right by the Divine Law. The next day Mu‘tamid Khan represented that the Sayyids showed great humility and submissiveness. The matter was a complicated one. The greater reflection shown in ascertaining the truth in the matter the better. I accordingly ordered that Asaf K. should take exceeding trouble and forethought in ascertaining the truth of this quarrel, and point out such a way (of unravelling it) that no doubt whatever should remain. With all this, if it could not be cleared up, I would examine them in my own presence. Immediately he heard these words, the Hakim’s son lost both his hands and his heart in the affair, and made a number of his friends intercessors, and proposed a withdrawal. His representation was that if the Sayyids would not refer the matter to Asaf K. he would give a release, and that hereafter he would have no right against nor claim from them. Whenever Asaf K. sent to fetch him, as he was a low deceiver, he passed his time in making excuses, and did not appear until he handed over the deed of release to one of his friends, and the true state of affairs became evident to Asaf K. They brought him by force into the place of examination, and, having no choice, he confessed that the deed had been prepared by one of his servants, who himself witnessed it, and had misled him. He gave a writing to this effect. When Asaf K.