History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c7.91

c7.91

But more serious was the revolt of Bahrām Aibā at Multan which occurred sometime after the transfer of the capital. The date 741 A.H. given by Firishta is absolutely incorrect, though his account is fuller than that of Barani. Barani, who is more reliable being a contemporary, does not give the date; but from his narrative it is clear that this was the first important rebellion in Hindustan, and it occurred either towards the close of 727 A.H. or sometime in 728 A.H. Ibn Batūtah gives a fuller account of the rebellion, but he does not furnish us with a date. He had no personal knowledge of the events which happened six years before his arrival in India, and much of his information must have been derived from eye-witnesses living at the time. He says, he learnt about this rebellion from Shaikh Rukn-al-Din, and we have no reason to disbelieve the substantial part of his story.⁵² The French translators of Ibn Batūtah accept 727 A.H. as the date of this rebellion, which is very near the truth.⁵³ The author of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* mentions the revolt just after the rebellion of Bahā-al-Din Gashtāsp and the transfer of the capital; and this sequence of events is followed by Badāoni, Firishta and Hajjī-ad-Dabīr.