Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.23.9

12.23.9

but by this time our small troop had exerted themselves so bravely that the ground was strewed with his dead and wounded. The rest seeing their General slain, and such a slaughter about his elephant, did not think it proper to contend any more, and fled every one as his mind prompted him; even his son that brave intrepid soldier, hearing of his father's death, turned about and fled. The Governor arriving at this time, ordered Hashem-aaly-qhan, his gentleman usher, to get up on the elephant, and to bring down Mustapha-qhan's head; and this having been done, it was immediately fixed on a spear, and sent through the ranks; after which it was sent to the Emperor (Mahmed-shah). But his body was sent to Azim-abad, with orders to commit it to the earth, after having carried it through the market and through the principal streets. The order was going to be executed; but the inhumation was opposed by Mir-mahmed-mergeshy, one of the most illustrious Seyds, born at Shuster, in Iran, a personage remarkable for his piety and virtue, who had once undertaken to bring about a pacification between the two parties. This gentleman affirmed that he had seen in a dream the Prince of Saints, Aaly Morteza, giving him orders to strike that inimical Afghan with a sabre; and as he did not obey instantly, His Majesty had taken the sabre himself, and smitten him twice and-a-half upon his own loins.