Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 24.4.1

24.4.1

As to my forgiven father's business, it was performed to his own wishes by the exertions of Seyd-aaly-qhan, my glorious brother, and by the patronage of Rabiah-begum, his patroness, even some time before Shytab-ray had returned to the city of Moorshood-abad. During all this time I was by Doctor Fullerton's recommendation an attendant on Mr. Sage, one of the ablest and most considerable Englishmen of that time, who conducted all the business of Banares. Moreover, I enjoyed in that city the honour of paying a respectful attendance to the most perfect, and glorious, Sheh-mahmed-aaly-hezin, (whom God may place amongst the highest of his elect!) My forgiven father was residing with his whole family, relations, dependants, and retinue at Hossein-abad, a town which he had founded and built on his Djaghir-lands; when at once, and without any apparent cause, his holy person resented a slight indisposition, which soon became a continuous fever. It is reported that it struck into his brain like a fit of apoplexy. His senses, however, and understanding were little impaired. Nevertheless the twelfth day after his first indisposition, it being a Sunday, the third of the second Djemady, of the year one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine of the Prophet's retreat (on whom may be peace and blessing for ever!) he was pleased to depart to the merciful mansions of the Omnipotent King, and was inhumed in the town which he had founded.