The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.167

v4.c20.167

Jay Singh having advanced from Amber with hostile intent, ‘Abdullah marched out of Delhi with the new emperor on 15 July, and arrived at Vidyāpur near Fathpur-Sīkrī on 1 September. Here Husain ‘Alī arrived in a few days, and the two brothers made a division of the spoils taken at Āgra. Rafī‘-ud-Daula was a very sickly youth, and much addicted to opium. An attack of diarrhœa in such a constitution baffled all the royal physicians and he died in the camp on 17 September, but the fact was kept concealed for nine days. The Sayyids, who had been already looking out for his successor, crowned Raushan-Akhtar, the son of Jahān Shāh (the fourth son of Bahādur Shāh), under the title of Muhammad Shāh, on 28 September, 1719.