Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 18.2.6

18.2.6

At the time when Mustapha-qhan, after having quitted the service, was marching towards Bagalpoor, some Sunnies, displeased with the injurious language which he endlessly poured against the Prophet's three first successors, defered him to his Afghans as a bitter enemy of their sect; and it was reported that Mustapha-qhan wanted to call him to an account; but this report did not frighten him. On the contrary, when that General arrived at Bagalpoor, the holy man remained firm and immobile in his habitation, waiting patiently for the crown of Martyrdom. Luckily for him that this threatening evil vanished of itself. But his firmness was no less conspicuous in an affair, that did him a deal of honor. It was about the time of Seradj-ed-doulah's nuptials, a Mussulman who had killed a consecrated bull, had his hand cut off by order of Abiram, the Hindoo Officer at Bagalpoor, as Representative of Ata-ollah-qhan, the Fodjdar, then absent; and although the man went to Azim-abad, and carried his complaints to the great and mighty ones, no body took notice of him. Shah-djaafri, shocked at this neglect of justice, joined issue with the injured man; and a general sedition arising, Ata-ollah-qhan became very uneasy, as a multitude of people thronging at his door, wanted to break into his house. The Afghan Generals, Shimshir-qhan, and Serdar-qhan, were then encamped without that city, although out of service;