1895.] 
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A. S. Beveridge — Khwajah Muhammad Muqim. 
If my suggestion survives examination, the biographical notice of 
No. 401 (525) should include, at least the following items:— 
Khwajah Muhammad Muqim of Khurasan ( Harawi .) Son of Kh . 
Miraki. Descendant of the great saint of Harat, Kh . ‘Abdullah 
‘Ansari ( Tabaqat , Erskine’s MS., British Museum. Rieu’s Catalogue, 
1,220). Brother-in-law of Sultan Ibrahim Aubahi. (435, 533.) 
Father of Nizamu-d-din Ahmad, the author of the Tabaqat. Brought up 
in Babar’s household ; — employed in the Tiivdni-i-buyutat of Babar ; — 
instrumental in securing the succession to Humayuu by repeating to 
Mir Khalifah, the threat uttered by Mahdi Khwajah against him, just 
before the death of Babar ( Tabaqat , Lakhnau ed. 374) ; — vazlr to 
‘Askari in Gfujrat 941 H. ; — at Chaunsa with ‘Askari, and one of the 
few troopers who escaped with Humayun to Agra, 946 H.;—at Kanauj 
with ‘Askari, 947 H. ;—Nizam born about 953 H. ; — employed in “ Go¬ 
vernment ” business in Agra, 974 H. (Elliot V. 317)—an amin near 
Bhakkar and counselling loyalty to the son of Mir Khalifah, Muhibb 
‘All, 981 H. ; — with ‘Aziz Kokah in Bengal 988 H. ;—returns to Court 
with ‘Aziz, 991 H.; — in Bengal as amin and waqtfah navis and shut up 
in Ghoraghat with Tahir Saifu-l-muluk 992 H. (Abu-l-fazl speaks of 
him as a “ jewel of sagacity and courage” at this point); — ba hhsli j 
to the armies of Sadiq Khan Harawi and Isma‘il Quli Khan in Multan, 
994 H. ; — ba khsli j to ‘Abdu-r-raliim Khan-ldianan in Sindh, 999 H. ; — 
diwan of Multan and commissioned to forward to Court the reports of 
his eleven colleagues — diivdns of the Empire, 1003 H.; — death of 
Nizam 1003 H.* 
•• 
The term of life necessary to cover the events recapitulated in 
this tentative biographical notice, is not beyond the bounds of pro¬ 
bability and is far from being unexampled amongst the contemporaries 
of Muqim BaJchshi. ‘Aziz Kokali died at 84, having been made atdliq 
to Prince Dawar Bakhsh when 83. Mihtar Khan lived to be 84 and 
died holding a Command of Three Thousand. Miran Sadr Jahan Mufti 
died in 1020 H., and was believed to be 120 years old. Jahangir pro¬ 
moted him to be a Chahar-liazari, twenty years or thereabouts before 
his death. Muhibb ‘Ali was a fighting man under Babar and died in 
989 H. Peshrau Khan was, according to Jahangir, an excellent servant 
and smarter than many a young man, at the age of 90. 
* Elliot says (Y. 178) that Harawi is spoken of in Babar’s Memoirs. If so, his 
name has escaped a thrice-repeated search through the Memoirs. A Muqim figures 
there frequently, but this is the son of Mirza Zulnun and son-in-law of Mirza Ulugh 
Beg, Babar’s cousin. In a supplemental chapter (Memoirs of Babar, 428) Mr. 
Erskine relates the story of Mahdi Kh wajah and Muqim Harawi. It is interesting 
to find that at the time he quoted the welcome passage, he did not know the 
Tabaqat. 
J. i. 22. 
