1 198 Account of Khyrpoor and the Fortress of Bukur. [No. 108. 



soleum of his grandfather Huzrut Iman Human Sooltan Khoorasan Ubool 

 Husun Ulee, son of Moosa Ruza. He left a son named Uhmud, and his 

 widow pregnant of another. When the period of mourning was expired 

 she went on a pilgrimage to Mudina, and from thence to Mukka, where 

 she brought forth Meer Moohummud, surnamed Mukaee, from his birth- 

 place. On her return to Persia she married a relation, and travelled with 

 him and Moohummud Mukaee to Bughdad, where they were hospitably 

 received by a nobleman named Shuekh Shahab-ood-deen Soohrwurdee. 

 He formed a great friendship for Mukaee, and determined to give him his 

 daughter in marriage, but his relatives supposing him a person of obscure 

 birth, opposed it. The young man was indignant at their conduct, and 

 asked them to accompany him to the burial place of Moohummud, that he 

 might convince them of his holy origin. On reaching Mudina they enter- 

 ed the tomb of the prophet, when Mukaee exclaimed, " Salutation to thee, 

 O ancestor," and a voice from the sepulchre replied, " Salutation to thee, O 

 son;" which proof of sanctity so affected his companions and the towns- 

 people that they fell at his feet, and after showing him extraordinary 

 respect begged him to confer a blessing on their city by tarrying some 

 time in it. He declined, on the plea of returning immediately to Bughdad, 

 but determined first to visit Nujub, to give his companions another proof 

 of his holy lineage. On entering the tomb of Ulee he addressed the spirit 

 of the departed as he had done Moohummud, and a voice from the sepul- 

 chre confirmed his origin. 



Shahab-ood-deen was overwhelmed with shame at what had happened, 

 and after asking and receiving his forgiveness gave him his daughter in 

 wedlock. In due time the lady brought forth a son called Sudr-deen, 

 whose tomb is in the fort of Bukur, she died immediately afterwards, and 

 her father followed a. h. 587. . 



Among the papers that came into Moohummud Mukaee's possession on 

 his father's death was the account of the Indus, already mentioned, and 

 being curious to see the spot he travelled thither in the year of Hijru* 

 658. His companions agreed in considering it favourable for a settlement, 

 and having mounted the hills to reconnoitre they discovered two herds- 

 men grazing cattle. These men undertook to point out the spot that was 

 so much admired by Moohummud Shoojan, and departing at night they 

 arrived at dawn the following day at the foot of a hill, which the horses 



* The late Captain Macmurdo of the Bombay army, states that Bukur was founded 

 by the Arabs, and built from the ruins of Atore. He mentions, on the authority of the 

 Tohfut al Girami, that the town did not exist in the time of the Hindoo government, 

 and that it got its name Bukur from Moohummud Mukaee some years after its 

 foundation. 



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