Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.4.2

17.4.2

to all which he used to join in both seasons a profusion of precious stuffs, which were always ushered with this expression: These can only fit your maids; but accept them for my sake. Doubtless it is of him that it was said: Verses: "Live in such a manner as that whenever you die, "Your virtues Should make you live anew in the remembrance of mankind." As I, the poor man, was upon the most intimate footing with that nobleman, as well as with his brother, Sdyd-ahmed-qhan, and I had a perfect knowledge of their characters, and ways of life, I can vouch for the foregoing two stories (one of which happened in my own family); and of such stories there may be a thousand; for he had a thousand such acquaintances, on whom he bestowed his care and money in so generous a manner, that he kept it as a secret. But it is no less certain that there was no orphan and no widow in the city, that did not partake in some shape or other of his bounty and munificence; and how far he had carried the benignity of his temper, may be conceived from this particular, that at his death the city of Mürshüd-abad looked like an immense hall filled with people in mourning; and that an infinity of persons looked upon his death as an irreparable loss for their own families. His second brother, whose name was Mahmed-sayd, and whose titles at length were Nassyr-el-mulk-säyd-ahmed-qhan-bahadyr-söölut-djung, had a character that held the middle way between his two brothers.