History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.168

c10.168

Barani gives a detailed account of the Sultan's submission to the Khalifah, and he is followed by all later writers. Badr-i-Chach and Ibn Batutah both speak of the Sultan's *biat* (homage) to the Khalifah, though the latter gives no account of it beyond a bare mention in describing the visit of Ghiyas-al-Din, a scion of the Khalifahs of Baghdad.¹⁰⁷ The author of the *Sirat*, which is an earlier work, agrees with Barani, but he makes one or two mistakes in the course of his narrative. His dates are faulty, and his order of events is not altogether correct. For example, he places the arrival of Haji Sarsari and his colleagues Sidi Ziad, Mubashir Khalifati and Muhammad Sufi in 745 A.H. which is not supported by any contemporary authority.¹⁰⁸ The text of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* which I have used omits to give an account of this transaction, though Badaoni who mostly copies this work describes at length the exchange of embassies between the Khalifah and Sultan Muhammad. Badaoni borrowed his account from Barani or Nizam-al-Din whose works he utilised in preparing his history. Hajji-ad-Dabir who generally quotes from Barani and Hussam Khan reproduces the account given by the former and the same is done by Firishta.