226 Blocliinann — Notes on Ndrnaul. [Nov. 



ridden over by the horses. For several da3^s, t]ie Hindus assembled in large 

 numbers ; but at last they gave in and paid i\\ejlzi/ah.' 



Some of the dispersed Satnams, adds the author of the Tazlcirah i Sa. 

 latin i Cliaghtdi, had the boldness to enter Dihli ; and when the report 

 came to the ears of the emperor, he ordered the Superintendent of Police 

 (sTiiJinah), Sidi Fulad Khan, to hunt them down. About seventy or eighty 

 had taken possession of some ruined buildings in the Habshipurah Quarter. 

 They defended themselves Tor several hours, but were at last all killed, and 

 Sidi Fulcid hung their dead bodies on the trees round about the town. He 

 received the thanks of the emperor, and the Satnams were heard of no- 

 more. Ea'dandaz Khan received the title of Shuja'at 'Ali Khan, was pro- 

 moted and got a kettledrum. 



During the reign of Shah 'Alam Bahadur,* Aurangzib^s son, the 

 rebellion in Subah Ajmir continued, and Saj'-yid Ghairat Khan, Faujdar of 

 Narnaul, was killed. 



In the 6th year of Farrukh Siyar's reign, A. H. 1129, or A. D. 1717, 

 f alabat Khan was Faujdar of Narnaul. 



The biographical works on Muhammadan Saints and Mr. Beale's Mif- 

 tdh uttawdriJcli mention the following men of note — (1) Shaikh Muhammad 

 Turk, who had come from Turkistan to Narnaul. As mentioned above, he 

 was killed in A. H. 642, or A. D. 1244-45. (2) Shaikh Ahmad Majd Shaibani, 

 a holy man, born at Narnaul. He died atNagorin 927, or A. D. 1521. (3) 

 Shaikh Ilahdin Majzub, a faqir, died 946, or A. D. 1539. (4) Shaikh Ham- 

 zah, of Dharsu, 3 Icos from Narnaul ; died in 957, or A. D. 1550. (5 and 6) 

 Shaikh Isma'il, a learned man ; and his younger brother Shaikh Nizam, a saint 

 of renown, died in 997, or A.D. 1589 (A'ln Translation, I, p. 538, and 

 Badaoni, III, 26). (7) Wall Muhammad, died 5th Shawwal, 1057, or 1647. 

 (8) Sayyid Ni'matullah, who left Narnaul for Eajmahall, where he was 

 much honored by Prince Shuja'. He lived at Fh-uzpur, east of Eajmahall, 

 and died there in 1077 or 1080, A. D. 1666 or 1669. 



Narnaul is also the home of the family to which the Hindustani poet 

 Afsos belongs. He says in the preface to his poems that he traces his 

 descent from Imam Ja'far padiq. Sayyid Badruddin, brother of Sayyid 

 ' Alamuddin ' Haji KhaniVf one of the poet's ancestors came from Khawaf 

 in Khurasan to Narnaul. Sayyid Ghulam Mu9tafa, grandfather of the 

 poet, moved during the reign of Muhammad Shah from Narnaul to Dihli, 

 where Sayyid 'Ali Muzaffar Khan, Afsos's father, entered the service of 

 Amir Khan. Mir Sher 'Ali, known under the poetical name of Afsos, 

 was born at Dihli. " ^ ■ 



* Called ' Bahadur Shah' in European histories. 



t This seems to mean that he was in the service of Haji Khan, Sher Shah's officer, 

 who, as mentioned above, was many years in Narnaul. Regarding Afsos, vide also 

 Sprenger's Catalogue of Oudh MSS., pp. 198, 597. 



