The History of Mubārak Shāh 3.5

3.5

In the month Jumada-l awwal of the same year Abu Bakr Shah collected his army and marched towards Jalesar. He encamped about twenty kos from Dehli, and Sultan Muhammad, being informed of this, left his army and baggage at Jalesar, and started off with four thousand light horse for Dehli. Some guards who had been left in charge of the city shut themselves up at the Badaun gate, and made some show of resistance; but the assailants set fire to the gate, and the defenders fled. Sultan Muhammad entered the city through this gate, and took up his quarters at the Humayun palace. All the people of the city, high and low, and the bazar people, joined him. When intelligence of this reached Abu Bakr, he set off early on the same day with a party of his followers, and entered the city by the same gate, and Malik Bahau-d din, who had been left in charge of the gate by Sultan Muhammad, was killed on the spot. The Sultan was in the palace, unaware of what had happened; but when Abu Bakr drew near, and he was apprised of the fact, he escaped with a small party of followers through a back door of the palace, and making his way out of the city by the gate of the Hauz-i khass, he returned to Jalesar, to his army and baggage. The amirs and maliks and soldiers who were unable to escape out of the city with the Sultan were, some of them taken prisoners, and some killed; Khalil Khan naib-barbak and Malik Isma'il, son of the daughter of Sultan Firoz Shah, were taken alive, and were put to death.