Qaṃbar Bī was in Qūndūz when Khusrau Shāh went against it; he at once sent off galloppers to summon Ḥamza Sl. and the [Sidenote: Fol. 156b.] others Shaibāq Khān had left behind. Ḥamza Sl. came himself as far as the _sarāī_ on the Amū bank where he put his sons and begs in command of a force which went direct against Khusrau Shāh. There was neither fight nor flight for that fat, little man; Ḥamza Sulṯān's men unhorsed him, killed his sister's son, Aḥmad-i-qāsim, Sherīm the page and several good braves. Him they took into Qūndūz, there struck his head off and from there sent it to Shaibāq Khān in Khwārizm.[936] (_r. Conduct in Kābul of Khusrau Shāh's retainers._) Just as Khusrau Shāh had said they would do, his former retainers and followers, no sooner than he marched against Qūndūz, changed in their demeanour to me,[937] most of them marching off to near Khwāja-i-riwāj.[938] The greater number of the men in my service had been in his. The Mughūls behaved well, taking up a position of adherence to me.[939] On all this the news of Khusrau Shāh's death fell like water on fire; it put his men out. 911 AH.—JUNE 4TH 1505 TO MAY 24TH 1506 AD.[940] (_a. Death of Qūtlūq-nigār Khānīm._) In the month of Muḥarram my mother had fever. Blood was let without effect and a Khurāsānī doctor, known as Sayyid T̤abīb, in accordance with the Khurāsān practice, gave her water-melon, but her time to die must have come, for on the [Sidenote: Fol. 157.] Saturday after six days of illness, she went to God's mercy. On Sunday I and Qāsim Kūkūldāsh conveyed her to the New-year's Garden on the mountain-skirt[941] where Aūlūgh Beg Mīrzā had built a house, and there, with the permission of his heirs,[942] we committed her to the earth. While we were mourning for her, people let me know about (the death of) my younger Khān _dādā_ Alacha Khān, and my grandmother Aīsān-daulat Begīm.[943] Close upon Khānīm's Fortieth[944] arrived from Khurāsān Shāh Begīm the mother of the Khāns, together with my maternal-aunt Mihr-nigār Khānīm, formerly of Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā's _ḥaram_, and Muḥammad Ḥusain _Kūrkān Dūghlāt_.[945] Lament broke out afresh; the bitterness of these partings was extreme. When the mourning-rites had been observed, food and victuals set out for the poor and destitute, the Qorān recited, and prayers offered for the departed souls, we steadied ourselves and all took heart again. (_b. A futile start for Qandahār._) When set free from these momentous duties, we got an army to horse for Qandahār under the strong insistance of Bāqī _Chaghānīānī_. At the start I went to Qūsh-nādir (var. nāwar) where on dismounting I got fever. It was a strange sort of illness for whenever with much trouble I had been awakened, my eyes closed again in sleep. In four or five days I got quite well. (_c. An earthquake._)