Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s1.3

c9.s1.3

² The story runs thus: Once Malik Mardān, Governor of Multan, invited Shaikh Jalāluddīn Bukhārī to his mansion. At the time of dinner Malik Sulaimān brought the ewer and bason for the saint to wash his hands. At this Shaikh Jalāl pointed out to Malik Mardān Daulat: "This lad is a Saiyyad-zādā and it is derogatory for him to do a menial service". It was in this strange way that the descent of Sulaimān is claimed to have been discovered, about which neither Malik Mardān nor any one in his court obviously knew anything. T.M.S., 181-82; T.A., I, 265. Badaonī, Ranking, I, 376. Ferishta, I, 161-62. Ferishta adds to his sources of information the *Tarikh-i-Mahmūd Shāhī* also.