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The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 3.4.6

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī (Rogers, Beveridge) 3.4.6

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3.4.6

I promoted Mirza Shahrukh, grandson of Mirza Sulaiman, (once) the ruler of Badakhshan, who was nearly related to my family, and held the rank of 5,000 in my father's service, to the rank of 7,000. The Mirza is a true Turk in disposition and simple-minded. My father conferred great honour on him, and whenever he bade his own sons sit he gratified him also with this distinction. Notwithstanding the mischievous propensities of the people of Badakhshan, the Mirza in this familiarity never left the right road, or undertook anything that might lead to unpleasantness. I confirmed him in the Subah of Malwa just as my father had kindly conferred it on him. I conferred on Khwaja 'Abdu-llah, who is of the Naqshbandi family, and in the commencement of his service was an ahadi, and who had risen by degrees to the command of 1,000, but without reason had gone into my father's service, the rank and jagir my father had conferred on him. Although I considered it best for my own prosperity that my attendants and people should go into his (Akbar's) service, yet this had occurred without my leave, and I was rather annoyed at it. But the fact is that he is a manly and zealous man; if he had not committed this fault he would have been a faultless hero (jawan). Abu-n-nabi, the Uzbeg, who is one of the distinguished inhabitants of Mawara'a-n-nahr and in the time of 'Abdu-l-Mu'min Khan was governor of Mashhad, obtained the rank of 1,500.