Twilight of the Sultanate c3.17

c3.17

For the post-Tīmūr period, there is only one contemporary chronicle, the *Tārīkh-i-Mubārak Shāhī* written by Yahyā bin Sarhindī. It deals with the first thirty-five years of the Saiyyad dynasty. Although after the pattern of many other historians Yahyā starts with the foundations of Muslim rule in India, yet it is for the period of 1400 to 1435 that he "gives us what he himself witnessed or learnt from trustworthy observers from the time of Fīrōz Shāh to the accession of the third Saiyyad Sultan, Muhammad". Thus he is "our most original authority" for a period of thirty-five years, 1400-1435.¹¹ With this he also supplements the meagre information of Shams Sirāj from about 1380 onwards. His account of the troublous times which followed the invasion of Tīmūr is detailed and accurate.