Bayan-i waqiʿ 4.2

4.2

They sent a message to the Nawab Bahadur to this effect, that without him they could not deliberate on the affairs of the Empire. So, on the 27th day of the month Shawwal, in the year 1165 A.H. (28th August, 1752 A.D.), he repaired to the house of the Waziru-l Mulk, where they killed him in a private closet, and threw his body into the river. The followers of the wazir said that his death in this way was the reason why the slaughter and plunder was not so bad as it would otherwise have been; because, in the event of a battle and contest taking place, the royal fort, which was his dwelling-house, and the dwelling-houses of the citizens, would have been sacked, and very many men on both sides would have been killed. After this event, Nawab Kudsiya, who had been patron of Nawab Bahadur, exhibited her displeasure. But the Wazir-i 'azam sent to say that in this matter he was not to blame, because the physician, Hakim Shaki Khan, had brought a verbal message from the Emperor to the effect that the best thing that could be done was to kill and get rid of Jawed Khan. He had reprimanded the physician, and made Hakim Akmal Khan his physician in his room. During the month Jumada-s sani, in the year 1166, there was a disagreement between the wazir and the Emperor, and the enemies of the wazir apprised the Emperor in many ways that it was Safdar Jang's intention to seat on the throne Buland-akhtar, younger brother of Muhammad Shah, who was of the same sect with himself, viz. a Shi'a.