The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.35

v4.c16.35

The orthodox, or Sunnī, party was led by Mullā ‘Abdullah of Sultānpur, entitled Makhdūm-ul-Mulk, and by the *Sadr*, Shaikh ‘Abdun-Nabī. Their orthodoxy was beyond question, but even the rigid Sunnī, Badāūnī, condemns the worldliness, avarice and duplicity of Makhdūm-ul-Mulk, but adds, with approval, “owing to his exertions many heretics and schismatics had gone to the places prepared for them”. Shaikh ‘Abdun-Nabī had put to death a Brāhman convicted of the offence of abusing the prophet of Islām, and had interpreted the marriage law with an exactitude which had given great offence to Akbar.