Two days later we reached Shīrāz. It belonged to Qāsim Beg _Dūldāī_; his _dārogha_ (Sub-governor) could āburnānot hold it and surrendered.[315] It was given into Ibrāhīm _Sārū's_ charge. After making there, next day, the Prayer of the Breaking of the Fast (_`Īdu'l-fiṯr_), we moved for Samarkand and dismounted in the reserve (_qūrūgh_) of Āb-i-yār (Water of Might). That day waited on me with 3 or 400 men, Qāsim _Dūldāī_, [Sidenote: Fol. 39b.] Wais _Lāgharī_, Muḥammad Sīghal's grandson, Ḥasan,[316] and Sl. Muḥammad Wais. What they said was this: 'Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā came out and has gone back; we have left him therefore and are here for the _pādshāh's_ service,' but it was known later that they must have left the Mīrzā at his request to defend Shīrāz, and that the Shīrāz affair having become what it was, they had nothing for it but to come to us.
When we dismounted at Qarā-būlāq, they brought in several Mughūls arrested because of senseless conduct to humble village elders coming in to us.[317] Qāsim Beg _Qūchīn_ for discipline's sake (_siyāsat_) had two or three of them cut to pieces. It was on this account he left me and went to Ḥiṣār four or five years later, in the guerilla times, (907 AH.) when I was going from the Macha country to The Khān.[318]
Marching from Qarā-būlāq, we crossed the river (_i.e._ the Zar-afshān) and dismounted near Yām.[319] On that same day, our men got to grips with Bāī-sunghar Mīrzā's at the head of the Avenue. Sl. Aḥmad _Taṃbal_ was struck in the neck by a spear but not unhorsed. Khwājakī Mullā-i-ṣadr, Khwāja-i-kalān's eldest brother, was pierced in the nape of the neck[320] by an arrow and went straightway to God's mercy. An excellent soldier, my father before me had favoured him, making him Keeper of the Seal; he was a student of theology, had great [Sidenote: Fol. 40.] acquaintance with words and a good style; moreover he undertook hawking and rain-making with the jade-stone.
While we were at Yām, people, dealers and other, came out in crowds so that the camp became a bazar for buying and selling. One day, at the Other Prayer, suddenly, a general hubbub arose and all those Musalmān (traders) were plundered. Such however was the discipline of our army that an order to restore everything having been given, the first watch (_pahār_) of the next day had not passed before nothing, not a tag of cotton, not a broken needle's point, remained in the possession of any man of the force, all was back with its owners.