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Abdu 8 Abdu goh. He was the tutor of the emperor Akbar, and was honored with the dignity of Sadr-us-Sudiir. No Sadr during any former reign had so much favor. The king was for some time so intimate and unceremonious with him, that he would rise to adjust the Shaikh's slippers when he took his leave. At last, through the enmity of Maulana 'AhduUah Makhdum-ul-Mulk {vide p. 6) and others, he fell in the king's estimation, and hegan to he treated very differently. He was banished to Mecca, and after his return was murdered in the year 1683 A. D. (991 A. H.) Vide Km Translation I, 546, 538, _ and p. xiii (Ahul- Fazl's Biography); also Proc. . Asiatic Society, Bengal, January, 1876.] AbduI-TTabi Khan, served under Aurangzfb, and built the large Mosque at Mathura; vide Proc. As. Socy. Bengal, 1873, p. 12.] Abdul-RaMm bin-Alimad Sur, '^■^^1 iu'. author of the Persian Dictionary ' Kashf-ul-Lughat. Vide Journal, As. Society, Bengal, for 1868, p. 9.] Abdul-Rahim Khan, ^^^=^J-=^ J^(^=^J^ >>->^, Khto- Khanan, commonly called Khan Mirza, was the son of Bairam Khan, the first prime-minister of the emperor Akbar. He was born on the 17th December 1556 A. D. (14th Safar 964 H.) and was only four j'ears old when his father was assassinated. When of age, he received the appoint- ment of his father with the same title of Khankhanan and the government of Gujrat in 1585 A. D. (993 H.) His daughter Jani Begam was married to prince Danyal in the year 1599 A. D. (1007 H.) He translated the " Waki'at-i-Babari" (Memoirs of the emperor Babar) from Turki into Persian. After Akbar's death, he served under Jahangir for 21 years, and died a few months before that emperor, shortly after the suppression of Mahabat Khan's rebellion, in the year 1627 A. D. (1036 A. H.), aged 72 lunar years, and lies buried at Dihli near the Dargah of Shaikh Nizam-uddin Auliya, where his tomb is to be seen to this day. His poetical name was Eahim. For a detailed biography vide Ain Translation I, 334.] 'Abdul-Rahim, ^i^-*! <i-J*i of principal nobles who joined Prince Khusrau in his rebellion against his father Jahangir in 1606 A. D. He was taken prisoner with the prince and brought to the emperor at Labor ; by whose order he was sewn up in the raw hide of an ass, kept constantly moist with water, in which miserable con- dition he remained for twenty-four hours. He was after- wards pardoned ; vide Ain Translation I, 455. 'Abdul-Rahim Khan, Khwaja, (♦^t^l <i-J-c*^l>^, the son of Abul-Kasim. He was a native of Andijiin in Farghana, came to India in the reign of the emperor Shah Jahan, and served rmder Aurangzib for several years. He died in 1692 A. D. (1103 A. H.) 'Abdul- Rahman, (Arabic characters) the son of Muljim, the murderer of 'AH, son-in-law of Muhammad. He was killed by Hasan, son of 'AH, in January 661 A. D. (Ramazan, 40 A. H.) No SM'a would now-a-days call his son 'Abd-urrahman, just as no ]Iuliammadan would call his son Yazid.] 'Abdul-Rahman, ^V^l e^^' i:y*=^J the son of Abu- Bakr, first Khalifa after Muhammad, and brother to ' Ayisha, the favorite wife of the prophet. He died in the same year that his sister died, i. e., in 678 A. D., 58 A. H. 'Abdul-Rahman, '^♦=^e-'.' son of Muhammad Hanif son of 'AH. He raised a formida- ble power against Hajjaj, the governor of Arabia, de- feated him in several battles, and at last, rather than fall into his hands, threw himself from a house and died, 701 A. D., 82 A. H. 'Abdul-Rahman, a popular Afghan poet of Peshawar. His verses are written with fiery energy, which has made them popular amongst a martial people, and yet with natm-al simplicity which is charming to the lover of poetry. Not far from the city is his grave, situated on the road to Hazarkhana, the poet's native village. 'Abdul-Rahman, '^■^^ , a Saracen general of the Khalifa Hisham, (called by some of our authors Abder- ames) who penetrated into Aquitain and Poitou, and was at last defeated and slain by Charles Martel near Poitiers, in 732 A. D., 114 A. H. 'Abdul-Rahman Mustafa, ^^sih^JO who in Watkin's Biographical Dictionary is called Baba- causchi, was mufti of the city of Caflfa, in Tauris. He wrote a book called ' The Friend of Princes ' . He died in A. D. 1381, 783 A. H. 'Abdul-Rahman, (Arabic characters) also called, by old writers Abderames, a descendant of the Khalifas of the house of Umayya. He was invited to come to Spain, in 766 A. D., 139 A. H., by the Saracens who had revolted; and after he had conquered the whole kingdom, he assumed the title of king of Cordova. He was the founder of the Ommaides of Spain, who reigned above two hun- dred and fifty years, from the Atlantic to the Pyrenees. He died in 790 A. D., 174 A. H., after reigning 32 years. 'Abdul-Rahman Ichi, l^^^' u'*^^' or I'ji, the father of 'Kazi 'Azd-uddin of Shiraz, a learned man and native of I'ch, a town situated 40 farsakhs from Shiraz. 'Abdul-Rahman, (^•^=^J , called by us Abderames, a petty prince in the kingdom of Morocco, who murdered 'Imad-uddin, his predecessor and nephew, and was himself after a long reign assassinated by a chieftain whose death he meditated, 1505 A. D., 911 A. H. 'Abdul-Rahman, the Sultan of Fez and Morocco, born 1778, was rightful heir to the throne when his father died ; but was supplanted by his uncle, after whose death he ascended the throne in 1823. His eldest son Sidi Muhammad (born 1803^ is heir to the throne. 'Abdul-Rahman Khan,eJ^=^ty*'V^' Nawab of Jhaj- jar, who on account of his rebellion during the mutiny of the native troops in 1857 A- D , 1274 A. H., was found guilty and executed at Dihli before the Kotwali on the 23rd December of the same year. He was a descendant of Najabat 'Ali Khan, to whom in 1806, when Sir G. Barlow was Governor-General of India, were granted the large territorial possessions held by the late Nawab, yielding a yearly revenue of 12 lacs, and consisting of Jhajjar, Badli, Karaund with its fort, Narnaul, &c. In addition to these, expressly for the purpose of keeping up 400 horse- men, the territoiy of Badwan and Dadri was granted. Up to May 1857, he had alwaj^s been looked upon as a staunch friend of the British Government ; but when the rebeUion burst forth, he forgot all his obligations to the British, and sided with the rebels. 'Abdul-Rahman Khan, ^^^.a.^y♦^x^Jt Cyxs, Sadr-us-Sudur of Kanhpur, a rebel and a staunch supporter of Nana Sahib, when that ruffian commenced his career. He was hanged at Kanhpur, ia June 1858, 1274 A. H. 'Abdul-Rahman Sulami (Shaikh), author of the " Ta- bakat Sufiya", a work on Sufism. He died in 1021 A. D., 412 A. H. He is also called Abu-'Abdur-ralunan. 'Abdul-Rahman, son of 'Abdul-' Aziz Nakshbandf, the father-in-law of Sulaiman Shikoh, who married his daughter in A. H. 1062, the 26th year of Shah Jahan.