The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.193

v4.c16.193

The administration of an aperient brought on a return of the dysentery, and at midnight on 25–26 October¹ Akbar died, a month before completing the sixty-third year of his age. According to some authorities he recanted his errors before his death and died professing the faith of Islām, but there is little doubt that he was past speech, and could make no response to the exhortations of those who surrounded his bed, though the Jesuits were informed that he died attempting to utter the name of God.