The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.79

v4.c15.79

Affairs at Kābul were now thrown into greater confusion than ever by the arrival of the stormy petrel, Shāh Abu-'l-Ma'ālī, who, having escaped from his prison at Lahore, had performed the pilgrimage to Mecca, whence he returned ready to seize any opportunity of fomenting strife and stirring up sedition. At Jālor he had found Sharaf-ud-dīn Husain, one of the conspirators who had fled from court after the murder of Atga Khān, and at his instigation had taken possession of Nārnaul and had defeated and slain Ismā'īl Qulī and Ahmad Beg, who had been sent against him by Husain Qulī Khān, then engaged in an attempt to capture Sharaf-ud-dīn Husain. Ismā'īl Qulī and Ahmad Beg had, however, before their final defeat and death, driven Abu-'l-Ma'ālī from Nārnaul and captured his brother, Khānzāda Muhammad, and as one imperial officer after another closed the gates of their fortresses against him and he heard that Akbar was marching from Āgra to Delhi he resolved to take refuge at Kābul, where he hoped to be able to obtain possession of the person of Muhammad Hakīm Mīrzā, whom he might set up as a pretender to the imperial throne in opposition to Akbar.