تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.9.1

13.9.1

The Sharīf Ibrāhīm, known as the Kharīṭadār — he is the keeper of the paper and pens in the Sultan's palace — was governor of the lands of Ḥānsī and Sarastī when the Sultan set out for the land of Maʿbar; his father, the Sharīf Aḥsan Shāh, was the one who had risen up in the land of Maʿbar. When the rumour of the Sultan's death spread, Ibrāhīm coveted the sultanate. He was brave, generous and handsome. I was married to his sister Ḥūrnasab; she was a pious woman who kept night vigils and had her litanies of the remembrance of God, mighty and exalted is He. She bore me a daughter, and I do not know what God has done with the two of them. She could read but could not write. When Ibrāhīm resolved on revolt, one of the amīrs of Sind passed by him