230 H. Beveridge — The Khurskid Jahdn Nutria of [No. 3, 
APPENDIX B. 
Jalalu-d-din Tabriz!. 
According to Bloclimann, J. A. S. B., XLIL, 260 and 281, Jalalu-d- 
din Tabrizi died in 642 A.H. or 1244. He does not give his authority 
for this statement, and I have not been able to find iu the Persian lives 
of saints any mention of the date of Jalalu-d-din’s death. 1 Indeed, it 
seems that the exact date must be unknown, for Jalalu-d-din apparently 
died in the Maidive Islands — far away from his friends and countrymen. 
It has been seen that according to the guardians of the shrine, Jalalu-d- 
din was in Pandua till 738 or 1337, and that according to some, he did not 
die there, but went off to some other place. It would be singular if 
tradition gave him a later date than the real one, for ordinarily it exag¬ 
gerates the antiquity of a saint or other great man. It is also clear 
from Ibn Batutali that a Jalalu-d-din Tabrizi was living in Assam or 
S}dhet, in the reign of Eakhru-d-din or between 739 and 750. I am 
indebted for this important reference to Mr. Blochmann, who in his 
turn got it from my dear friend Dr. Wise, J. A. S . B., XLII., 281. 2 
The reference there is to Lee’s translation of the fragment of Ibn 
Batutah, and I have since then consulted the French translation by 
Defrenery and Sanguinetti. Ibn Batutah’s account of his interview 
1 I have since found the date 642 in the Khazmatu-l-asfiya of Ghulam 
Sarwar of Lahore, I. 283 of Newal Kishor ed. Perhaps this was the source of Mr. 
Blochmann’s statement. But Ghulam Sarwar is quite a modern author, as the 
chronogram of his book’s title shows (1254 or 1839), and he gives no authority for 
his statement. He is the same man who gives the wrong date for Nur Qutb’s 
death, and evidently he does not know much about Jalalu-d-din, for he makes no 
reference to his visit to the Maldives. The Siyaru-l-arifin was written in the time 
of Humayun, and is apparently the source of Abu-l-fazl’s short notice in the Am 
(Jarrett’s translation III. 366). The Siyaru-l-arifin is an account of thirteen saints 
of the Chisti order and, as Dr. Rieu observes in his Catalogue, the notices are 
arranged in chronological order. Jalalu-d-din is tenth on the list and after Bahau- 
d-din and others. The writer evidently did not know the date of Jalalu-d-din’s 
death for he does not give it, and only says that he left Bengal and went to the 
port of Deo Mahal, (i.e., the Maldives). Abu-l-fazl makes a similar statement and 
gives no date of death. 
2 It is difficult to say if Jalalu-d-din Tabrizi is the same as Shah Jalal of Sylhet. 
The location of the latter might agree with Ibn Batutah, and it is singular that 
both accounts should mention a Burhanu-d-din. But the dates seem all confused. 
If 591 A.H. had been Shah Jalal’s birth-day instead of the day of his death, he 
might have been Ibn Batutah’s Jalalu-d-din, who lived for 150 years. In one place 
Ibn Batutah calls Jalalu-d-dinu-sh-Shirazi, IV., 287, of French translation. This 
is probably a clerical error, or a slip of Ibn Batuiah’s. Ibn Batutah’s book is unfor¬ 
tunately confused, and wanting in precision. He did not write it himself, but dic¬ 
tated it in after life to an African friend. 
