Muntakhab al-lubab 188.2

188.2

Sa'adat Khan, otherwise called Mir Muhammad Amin, a Saiyid of Naishapur, * * a close and trusted friend of I'timadu-d daula, joined heartily in the plot, and so also did the artilleryman Haidar Khan Kashghari, a Chaghatai Turk, descended from Mir Haidar, the author of the Tarikh-i Rashidi. He bore the hereditary title of "Sword-bearer." * * * All these three were agreed upon cutting the thread of Husain 'Ali Khan's life, and bound themselves together to effect their purpose, and to keep their design secret to themselves. So strict were they in their secrecy, that neither the Emperor, nor Kamru-d din Khan, son of I'timadu-d daula, knew anything of it. Excepting the mother of the Emperor, and Sadru-n nisa, a protegee (dast-girifta) of Saiyid 'Abdu-llah Khan, no one knew anything of the plot. On the 6th Zi-l hijja, in the second year of the reign, the royal army was encamped at Tora, thirty-five kos from Fathpur.