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as it was a question of life and death with him, Sadr-ad-din replied : " Had I spoken out the truth the result would have been the execution of the noble soul of a Sayyid ( descendant of the Prophet), mean• ing Mir J a'far 'Ali Khan.
1 Mir Ja'far 'Ali 'Khan, who held Sadr• ad-din his most faithful friend and well-wisher, appointed him Atalu; (Tutor) to his son by Munni Begum, Nawab Najm-ad-Dawla.
It is gratifying to note that Sadr-ad• din proved in no way unworthy of the trust placed in him by his friend and master, Nawab l\Iir Ja'far 'Ali Khan, and during Nawab Najm-ad-Dawla's rule, when Mr. Johnston fell out with him, he said, "The servants of the Nazim cannot be disloyal, faithless and false to the salt of their master.
lf·u'jam Fi Ash'ar-al-'Ajam but it has been labelled and entitled by some former owner " Hada'iq-us-Sihr or Hada'iq-us• Sihr Fi Daqa'iq-ish-Sh'ir which, as we know, is a work on the same subject by the famous poet Rashid-ud-din Watwat (died A.
The present work, which seems to be hitherto unknown, contains a vast collection of the choicest specimens of the different branches of Arabic and Persian poetry by various authors, arranged according to the topics of which they treat.
The author who calls himself in the preface Saif ibn Muhammad bin Ya'qub-ul-Harawi but later on simply Sain, says that after composing the ethical work Majmu'< ah-i-Chiyasi, which he dedicated to his patron Malik Chiyas-ud-din Kurt, the fourth king of Herat of the Kurt race, who reigned from A.