History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.192

c10.192

When the Haji reached Cairo, the Khalifah Mustakfi billah had been dead for sometime. He was succeeded by Al Wasaq billah Ibrahim who was preferred by Sultan Nāsir to Al Hakim, the son of Al-Mustakfi, on account of some personal grudge. But Ibrahim was deposed soon afterwards and was succeeded by Abul-al-‘Abbas Ahmad Al-Hākim bamr illah in 741 A.H. Al-Mustakfi’s death was not known in India for Muhammad Tughluq’s coins issued in 742, 743, 744, continue to bear on them his name.¹²¹ The coin No. 359 in Nelson Wright’s catalogue of coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, bearing date 745 A.H. seems to have been an advance issue, for in 744 A.H. Haji Sarsari must have brought to the Sultan the news of Al-Mustakfi’s death.¹²² According to Barani, Haji Rajab returned two years after in 746 A.H. accompanied by the Shaikh-al-Shayūkh of Egypt with a *farman* from Ahmad.¹²³ According to Badr-i-Chāch who gives the date in a chronogram the Haji arrived in 745 A.H.¹²⁴