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Ha jar 101 Hakim Hajar, ^r?^) a very great man among the followers of 'AH, and remarkable for his singular abstinence, piety and strictness of life, his constant purifications according to Muhammadan law, and exactness in observing the hours of devotion. He was put to death in 666 A. D., by order of Mu'awia I for speaking reproachfully of him, affront- ing his brother Zayad governor of Kufa, and affirming that the government did not, of right, belong to any but the family of 'All. Hajari, vide Hijri. Haji Begam, ts^'^j ■wife of the emperor Humayun. Vide Hamida Bano Begam. Haji Khalfa, ^■^^ C5^^> a celebrated author com- monly called Mustaufi Haji Khalfa. He is the author of the work called " Fazlaka," also of the Biographical Dictionary called " Kashf-uz-Zunun," and the work called " Takwim-ut-Tawarikh Eumi." The latter is a Chro- noloo^ical Table of remarkable events from the Creation of the world to 1648 A. D., 1058 A. H., translated from the Turkish, during the reign of Sultan Muhammad IV of Constantinople. The " Kashf-uz-Zunun" was printed for the Oriental Translation Fund in 1835-50, together with a Latin translation by Professor Fluegel. It ap. pears that Haji Khalfa formerly bore the title of Katib Chilpi," (which see,) and if this is correct, he died in 1657 A. D., 1067 A, H. In Chamber's Encyclopaedia the month and year of his death is September, 1658 A. I?., and that he is also said to be the author of the Tarikh Kabir " the Great History," which is a history of the world from the creation of Adam to 1655 A. D., containing notices of 150 dynasties, princi- pally Asiatic ; also a history of the Ottoman empire from 1691 to 1658 A. D., and a history of the maritime wars of the Turks, which has been translated into English. Haji Muhammad Beg Khan, "-^i^ is^^"^, the father of the celebrated Mirza Abu Talib Khan, author of the " Masfr Talibi." He was by descent a Turk, but bom at 'Abbasabad in Isfahan. "Whilst a young man, dreading the t5rranny of Nadir Shah, he fled from Persia, and on his arrival in India, was admitted into the friendship of the Nawab Abu'l Mansur Khan Safdar Jang. Upon the death of Eaja NawulEae, Deputy Governor of Audh in 1750 A. D., 1163 A. H., Muham- mad Kuli Khan, the nephew of the Nawab, was appointed to that important office, and he (H&ji) was nominated one of his assistants. On the death of Safdar Jang in 1753 A. D., 1167 A. H., his son. Shuja-uddaula became jealous of his cousin Muhammad Kuli Khan, arrested him and put him to death. Haji fled with a few of his faithful servants to Bengal, where he passed a number of years, and died at Murshidabad in April, 1769 A. D., Zil-hijja, 1182 A. H. Haji Muhafnmad Jan, t5«V^ J^i- '^♦^^ ur^^, of Mashhad. His poetical name is Kudsf. He flourished in the reign of the emperor Shah Jahan, who conferred on him the title of " Malik-ush-Shua'ra," or the Eoyal poet. He is the author of a poem containing the con- quests of the emperor, which he named "Zafarnama." He died in the year 1645 A. D., 1055 A. H., and after him the title of the royal poet was confen-ed on Abu Talib Kalim. He is also the author of a Diw&n, and an Insha. Haji Muhammad Kandahari, (sj^"^ ij^^"^- He is the author of a history which goes by his name, viz., " Tarikh Haji Muhammad Kandahari." Haji Muhammad Kashmiri Moulana, cS'^i-*-*^ j„^s?* ^^y>. One of his forefathers who was a native of Hamdan, came to Kashmir with Mir Said 'Alf Hamdani. Haji was born in that province, but came to 26 Dehlf in his youth where he received his education. He was an excellent poet, flourished in the time of Akbar, and died on Thursday the 22nd of September, 1597 A. D., 19th Safar, 1006 A. li., O. S. He was a religious man, and had many disciples, one of whom, named Moulana Hasan, wrote the chi-onogram of his death. Haji Muhammad Khan Sistani, iJ'^^^ {J^ C5^^« He was at first in the service of Bairam- Khan, Khankhanan, after whose dismissal he was ho- nored with the rank of 3000 by the emperor Akbar. He accompanied Munaim Khan, Khankhanan to Bengal and died at Gour in 1575 A. D., 983 A. H. Hajjaj-bin-Yusaf-al-Sakafi or Thakafi, ^^'^^^ ^-^J'i one of the most valiant Arabian cap- tains, who was made governor of Arabia and Arabian Irak by Abduhnalik the fifth Khalif of the Ommaides, after he had defeated and killed Abdiillah-bin-Zubeir, who had taken the title of Khalifa at Mecca. In the year 693 A. D., 74 A. H., he pulled down the temple of Mecca, which Abdullah had repaired, placing the black stone on the outside of it again and restoring it to the very form it had before Muhammad's time. He was a great tyrant ; it is said of him, that in his lifetime, he had put to death a hundred and twenty thousand persons, and when he died had 50,000 in his prisons. He died in the reign of the Khalif Walid I, in the year 714 A. D., 95 A. H., aged 54 years. Hakikat, «^^^, poetical title of Saiyad Husain Shah, son of Saiyad Arab Shah. He accompanied Col. Kj^dd to Chinapatan in Madras as head Munshi and died there. He is the author of an Urdu Diwan and seven other works, some of which are named "Tahfat-ul-'Ajam," "Khazf- nat-ul-Amsal," " Sanamkada Chin" and"Hasht Gulgusht." Vide Husain Shah. Hakim I, the poetical title of a person who was a native of Mashhad, and was living about the year 1688 A. D., 1100 A. H. He was an Arabic and Persian scho- lar, and is the author of a Diwan and a Masnawi. Hakim II, (♦-^^j the poetical name of Shah Abdul Hakim of Labor. He is the author of a work called " Mardum Dfda," compiled at Aurangabad in 1761 A. D., 1175 A. H. It contains an account of those poets with whom the author was acquainted. Hakim-Ain-ul-Mulk, u^' of Shiraz. He was a learned man and a clever writer. He traced his origin, on his mother's side, to the renowned logician Muhakkik-i-Dawani. The Historian Badaoni was a friend of his. Akbar also Uked him very much. Hakim was a poet and wrote under the Lakhalus of Dawani. He died at Handiah on the 27th Zil-lujja 1003 A. H. Vide Ain, I. 481. Hakim Ali, t^-^ ^J-^ f^^^, of Gilan, came to India in indigent circumstances, but was fortunate enough to be- come in course of time a personal attendant and friend of Akbar. In the 39th year of Akbar's reig-n, he construc- ted the wonderful reservoir which is so often mentioned by Mughal Historians. In the 40th year AH was a com- mander of 700 and had the title of Jalinus Uzzamani the ' Galinus of the Age.' By Jahangir he was made a com- mander of 2000. He died on the 5th Muharram, 1018 A. H. Vide Ain, 1. 466. Hakim Muhammad, (♦i^^ He was half-bro- ther to the emperor Akbar, being born of a diiferent mother. Vide Muhammad Hakim. Hakim Wur-uddin Shirazi, isjlri^ uH'^l jy (^^> who appears to have been either grandson or sister's son of