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Muhammad Ibra'hi'm. 

 PL IX, 13. Silver. Weight, 171 grs. A. H. 1132. 



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Sayyid Husain 'AH Khan Barha, according to the Tarikh-i-Muzaffarf 

 was assassinated on the 6th of Zil Hajjah, A. H. 1131. Sayyid 'Abdullah 

 his brother, got intelligence of the event on his way from A'grah to Dihli on 

 the 8th of the same month. He at once made up his mind to supplant Mu- 

 hammad Shah by placing a pliant puppet upon the throne. With this 

 view he sent his agent into Salimgarh for a candidate. The crown was 

 first offered to the sons, successively, of Mu'izz-uddin Jahandar Shah, but 

 they ail refused it, and shut their doors against the faces of the Sayyid's 

 agents, who then went to Nekusiyar, the son of Prince Akbar ; but this 

 young man stole away and hid himself. At last they went to the apart- 

 ments of Sultan Ibrahim, the son of Rafi'-ulkadr (Rafi'-ushshan) and the 

 brother of Pafi'-uddarajat and Rafi'-uddaulah, and prevailed on him to 

 accept the throne. 



The coronation took place at Dihli on the 11th Zil Hajjah ; and on the 

 17th, Sayyid 'Abdullah marched with this new pageant of royalty and a 

 large army against the Emperor Muhammad Shah, who was then in the 

 neighbourhood of Palwal. They met the Emperor near Hasanpur. The 

 battle of Shahpur was fought immediately after, which ended in the defeat 

 and capture of Sayyid 'Abdullah. Ibrahim fled, but was seized and brought 

 back. The Emperor pardoned him. 



Thus it will be observed that Ibrahim occupied the throne nominally 

 for one month only, and my coin, which is dated A. H. 1132, must have 

 been struck during the first eighteen days of his very brief reign. 



