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Husen (the father of my author),. a lad aged twelve years, as companion to Mahmiid ; T.R. and they grew up together mutual friends as King and Minister.
In the summer following, Yûnus purposed another attack upon Ababakar for the recovery of Kâshghar, but was called to Andijân and settled at trsh by Umar Shekh, who was again threatened by Ahmad seeking to seize Tâshkand and Shâhrukhi, which, since the death of Shekh Jamal, had fallen into his hands as part of Farghana. Yûnus passed the winter at Osh, and thus prevented war between the quarrelsome brothers; and in spring, leaving Hydar and Muhammad Husen in the government of rrsh, rejoined the Moghol under Mahmûd. On his departure, Umar, jealous and mistrustful of the presence of Hydar, ousted him, and he went with his son as a refugee to Ababakar at Kashghar. Here he detained Muhammad Husen a year, and then sent him to Sultan Mahmûd, son of Abû Said, the Governor of Badakhsan, whence he subsequently was invited to rejoin Yûnus, and give him the benefit of the medical skill for which he had obtained a reputation in the country, and nurse him during his last fatal illness.
In the autumn following this, however, Ahmad, taking advantage of the absence of Yûnus, attacked Tâshkand, and Umar once more recalling his trusty ally settled him at Syram for the winter. Whilst here, his second son, Ahmad, hating the restraints of city life, deserted Yûnus, and with a number of his Moghol returned to the freedom of his steppes. His flight was unnoticed owing to the danger threatened by the advance from Samarcand of the other Ahmad, to check whose progress Mahmûd was sent out with thirty thousand men. He was joined in the vicinity of the menaced city by Umar Shekh with fifteen thousand men from Farghâna, and they both attacked the enemy. After a few unimportant skirmishes the Khoja Nasiruddin Ubedulla interposed to prevent further hostility between the brethren, and made peace between the three by giving the bone of contention to Yûnus, who now in 890 H.-1484 A.D. became King at Tâshkand. As a bond of friendship on assuming the government, he betrothed his son, Mahmûd, to Karakûz, the "black-eyed" daughter of Ahmad ; and the belligerents then retired to their respective governments the best of friends.
Yûnus fell sick shortly following this, and, after a lingering illness of two years, died aged seventy-four years. He was the most enlightened, merciful, and just of all the Moghol Khans, and stands amongst them an unique character for learning, liberality, and piety.
Mahmûd now succeeded to the throne at Tâshkand; but the death of Yûnus was the signal for a fresh outbreak of hostilities, and Ahmad and Umar, free from the controlling influence of his superior character, at once renewed a rival contest for its possession. Mahmûd easily repulsed a force sent against him by Umar Shekh, but in the year following Ahmad attacked the city with an overwhelming force of a hundred and fifty thousand men, and would have taken it but for the treachery of his General, ShMhibeg Khan or Shaibân.
This successful adventurer, the founder of the Shaibân dynasty in Mawaranahar, was the son of Shah Budâgh, and grandson of Abûlkhyr. After the death of Bûrûj Khan he experienced varied fortunes in Mâwaranahar, and finally took service with Ahmad, and was classed amongst his nobles, over all of whom, except only Mir Abdul All Tarkhan, he held superior rank. His exalted position—which he maintained with a body-guard of three hundred devoted adherents of his own tribe—and the dislocated state of society at the time, favored the ambitious views of this Uzbak fortune hunter. During his service at Samarcand he had made several friends, and not a few jealous rivals as well, against the machinations of whom his trusty band of countrymen afforded him protection. The present opportunity offered him a chance he did not fail to take advantage of. During the three days' siege of Tâshkand, he opened communications, and plotted with Mahmûd to desert Ahmad, and join him with the force under his command.
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