The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.133

v3.c25.133

Bahādur left no son, and Muhammad Zamān Mīrzā, the kinsman and brother-in-law of Humāyūn, impudently claimed the throne on the ground that Bahādur’s mother had adopted him as her son, but ‘Imād-ul-Mulk Malikjī hastened from Diū to Ahmadābād and agreed to call to the throne Muhammad Shāh of Khāndesh, whose wife, mother, grandmother, and two more remote ancestresses had all been princesses of Gujarāt. Descent in the female line seldom counts for much in questions of succession in Muslim states, but Muhammad had been for years the loyal vassal and faithful companion in arms of Bahādur, whose recognition of his title of Shāh was understood to indicate a wish that he should succeed him. Muhammad Shāh obeyed the summons and set out from Burhānpur to ascend the throne of Gujarāt, but died on May 24, on his way to Chāmpāner.