456 An account of the Early Abdalees. QNo. 162. 



the rebels, which they faithfully did. Khaja Khidr being slain, some 

 Kutezyes also evinced a rebellious spirit ; and were chastised, and security 

 for their future good behaviour was taken. The other tribes profited 

 by the example. Sado behaved liberally to all who acknowledged his 

 authority, and punished all severely who disobeyed him. He listened 

 to the petitions of the poor, dispensed justice strictly according to the 

 Shara, was pacific in his policy, and protected his subjects. His go- 

 vernment was established over the Abdalees on a basis that had never 

 been in a like manner secured by his forefathers. 



When at leisure from the Abdalees, he subjugated, partly by con- 

 ciliation and partly by force, the tribes of Ghiljyes and Hazarahs, in 

 whose disputes he was sole arbitrator. He built several mosques and 

 schools, as well as many works of utility, such as bridges, wells, and 

 roads. 



He lived in all 75 years ; and had five sons, Khaja Khidr-khan, Mou- 

 dood-khan, Zafran-khan, Kamran-khan, and Bahadur-khan. 



Khaja Khidr-khan and Kamran-khan are said to have been of one 

 mother, and Zafran-khan of a slave girl. 



The Bahadur-khels settled in Multan, where and at Dera Ismail-khan 

 and Tak-i-Sar war- khan, there are some remains. 



Muzaffar-khan, governor of Multan, was a Bahadur-khel. 

 The Kamran-khels were divided into Eesa-khels and Moosa-khels. 

 Usman-khan, who was Shah Shuja's vizier in 1841, traced his descent 

 as follows, from Kamran, viz. : Usman, the son of Ramatullah, Shah 

 Zeman's vizier, the son of Fatullah, the son of Haroon, the son of 

 Yoosaf, the son of Yakoob, the son of Moosa, the son of Kamran. 



Walee Mahammad-khan, another Sadozye of rank at Candahar, who 

 also gave me some information, traced his descent from Kamran, as fol- 

 lows : Walee Mahammad, the son of Abdu Salam-khan, who was a 

 brother of Abdul- khalik-khan, (who rebelled against Shah Zeman), the 

 son of Rahman-khan, the son of Abdullah-khan, (who, according to 

 some, gave his daughter in marriage to Meer Wais Ghiljye, who had 

 two sons by her, Shah Mahmood and Shah Husen, receiving in mar- 

 riage in return Meer Wais's daughter), the son of Jafar Sultan, (whose 

 residence and control was at Potye-i- Sadozye and Shahr-i-Safa by one 

 account, whose wife named Durkhee gave her daughter Khanzad to 

 Meer Wais's mother for her son), son of Eesa, son of Kamran. 



