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sim Sulaimani ; the Tarikh-i Sher-Shahi of Shaikh 'Abbas Sarwani ; the 

 Mir-at-ul-Afaghinah of Khan Jahan Ludi ; the Makhzan Afghani of Shaikh 

 Ni'mat-ullah ; and the Ansab-i-Afaghinah of Farid ud-din Ahmad. The 

 last also is silent on the Ghuri connection. 



The tradition (but not contained in Ferishtah, who quotes a totally differ- 

 ent one, given farther on) on which the whole of the sovereigns of Dihli, from 

 the Turkish slave Kutb ud-din of the Powerless Finger — and including his 

 master Mu'izz-ud-din Muhammad, son of Baha-ud-din Sam, since it is 

 because he is considered a " Patan or Afghan," that his Turkish slaves arc 

 made " Patans or Afghans" of likewise — down to 'Ala-ud-din, grandson of 

 Khizr Khan, the last of the Sayyid dynasty, are all made Patans of, is as 

 follows : — 



" In the khilafat of 'Abd-ul-Malik, son of Marwan [65 H. to 86 EL], 

 Hajjaj, son of Yusuf us-Sakafi, was appointed to the leadership of 

 an Arab army assembled for the conquest of Khurasan and Grhuri- 

 stan, i. e. Ghur ; but some of the works previously quoted differ some- 

 what, and say that Muhammad Harun was nominated to the command 

 of this army, and also Muhammad Kasim, sister's son of Hajjaj, son 

 of Yusuf, who was the commander of the forces of Sulaiman, son of 

 'Abd-ul-Malik, son of Marwan, in the year 86 H. Sultan Bahrain, 

 ruler of Ghur, who was descended from Zuhak, the Taji or Tazi, and 

 contemporary with the Khalifah 'Ali, had proceeded to Kufah, and present- 

 ed himself before him, and had received from him in writing a grant of the 

 government of Ghur. [See Tabakat-i-Nasiri, pp. 312, 315, for another ver- 

 sion of this.] This Sultan Bahrain had two sons. The elder was Sultan 

 Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Husain, from whom is descended, in the third 

 generation, Muhammad-i-Suri. This seems to point to Muhammad, son of 

 Suri, mentioned in Tab. Nas. p. 319, who was the great great grandfather 

 of the Sultan Mu'izz-ud-din Ghuri, son of Sam. the sovereignty over Ghur 

 being in the elder branch of the family, who overthrew Rai Pithora and 

 slew him, and who introduced Muhammadanism into Hindustan, and is 

 sometimes called in Hind by the name of Shihab-ud-din. [Compare Tab. 

 Nas., pp. 302 to 313, and it will be seen whether this agrees with what the 

 annalist of the Ghuri Sultans, and their contemporary Maulana Fakkr- 

 ud-din Mubarak Shah says.] The younger son of Sultan Bahrain was 

 named Jamal-ud-din Hasan, who had a son, Mui'zz-ucl-din Mahinud, who 

 again had a son, Shah Husain by name." 



Which one of the elder branch was ruler of Ghur on the occasion of 

 Arab invasion, is not said, whether son or grandson of Sultan Bahrain ; but 

 afterwards it is mentioned that Kamal-ud-din Mahnnkl, son of the eldest 

 son of Bahrain — Jalal-ud-din — was sent as a hostage to the capital of the 

 Khalifah Walid. 



