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Zulfikar 290 Zyn-ul-'Abidin cession, accompanied by the ladies of his family as spec- tators of their own disgrace. Asad Khan, who in hopes of making peace with the new emperor had persuaded his son to visit him, and had thus put him in his power, with tears in his eyes, wrote the following chronogram on his death: Cj^ ij^jr' ]j Ui^l ^^tr?! (Abraham sacrificed Ishmael.) Mehr-un-Nisa Begam, the daughter of Yemin-uddaula 'Asaf Khan was his mother, and Shaista Khan the son of 'Asaf Khan was his father-in-law. Zulfikar of Sabzwari, (SJ^M'^J^^J^, a Sayyadand a great poet, who flourished in the reign of Sultan Mu- hammad of Khwarizm about 1200 A. D. ZullS|:ar-uddaula, /^^hj'd, a title of Najaf Khan. Zulkadar, j-^^hji, vide Zulkadar. Zulkadar, J'^^^b^j the poetical name of Mirza Muham- mad Mfhsia, a Turk of the tribe of Zulkadar, the meaning of which in the Turkish language is an archer that never misses his aim. This title he assumed for his takhallus. He flourished about the year 1688 A. D., 1100 A. H., and is the author of a Diwan. Zulkarnyn, u^j^^b '^j master of two horns, a title of Alexander the Great, probably based on coins represen- ting him in the character of Ammon. Zunnun or Zu'l Nur Misri, lsj^'° surnamed Abu'l Fazl Tuban, son of Ibrahim, a celebrated Muhammadan saint of Egypt whose merits were great in number, and who is said to have performed many miracles, and to have been the founder of the sect of Sufi in Egypt, where he was held in the greatest estimation. It is related in the " Nafahat," that at his death when they were carrying him for burial, a large flock of birds, of the kind that was never seen before, overshadowed his coflin to the grave. He died in February, 860 A. D., Zi-Ka'da, 245 A. H., and a chapel was built over his tomb in Egypt, where a number of other holy men are buried. The work called " Lataef-ul-Akhbar," contains the Memoirs of this famous saint. Zyd (or Zaid) bin-Sabit, Abu Sa'd, <^j, one of Muhammad's secretaries, to whom he dictated the Kuran. He wrote that copy which was used by the Khalifs or Imams at the command of 'TJsman the son of Afi'an the third Khalif after Muhammad. He died about the year 665 A. D., 45 A. H., some say that he died in 673 A. D., 54 A. H. He is the earliest authority on the Ilm-al- Earaez and may be called the father of the law of inheri- tance. Muhammad is reported to have said to his fol- lowers — "The most learned among you in the laws of heritage is Zyd ;" and the Khalifas 'Umar and 'Usman considered him without an equal as a judge, a jurisconsult, a calculator in the division of inheritances, and a reader of the Kuran. Zyd bin-Haria, •iiy'^ ivi '^ij, of the trbe of Kalb, was the emancipated slave of Muhammad who married his divorced wife Zynab. See the following article. Zyd was killed in the eighth year of the Hijrat in an attak on the Greeks at Muta in Syria, 629 A. D., 8 A. H. Zynab, LT?^ V^jjthe daughter of Jahash and the wife of Muhammad. She was formerly married to Zy the emancipated slave of the prophet. Towards the end of the fifth year of the Hijrat 626 A. D., Muhammad going into the house of Zyd, did not find him at home, but happening to espy his wife, he could not conceal the impression made upon him, but cried out, " Praise be to God, who turneth men's hearts as he pleaseth !" Zynab heard him, and told it to her husband when he came home. Zyd, who had been greatly obliged to Muham- mad, was very desirous to gratify him, and offered to divorce his wife. Muhammad pretended to dissuade him from it, but Zyd easily perceiving how little he was in earnest, actually divorced her. Muhammad thereupon took her to wife, and celebrated the nuptials with ex- traordinary magnificence, keeping open house upon the occasion. She died nine years after the death of Muham- mad in the year 641 A. D., 20 A. H. Zynab, (Arabic characters) the daughter of Khuzyma, was also one of the wives of Muhammad, and died two months after the preceding one in the year 641 A. D., 20 A. H. Zynab, *r*Hj, a daughter of Muhammad married to Abu'l 'As. This man, who was an unbeliever, was taken pri- soner to the battle of Badar, and the prophet would fain have drawn his son-in-law to him, and enrolled him among his disciples, but Abu'l 'As remained stubborn in unbelief. Muhammad then offered to set him at liberty on condition of his returning to him his daughter. To this he agreed, and Zyd, the faithful freedman of the prophet was sent with several companions to Mecca to bring Zynab to Medina, where after her arrival, Abu'l 'As was released. Zyn Khan Koka, "^J^ the foster-brother of the emperor Akbar. He was the son of Khwaja Maksud Hirwi ; his mother, whose name was Pichah Jan, was employed as an Anaga or nurse on Akbar in his childhood, consequently Zyn Khan was called Koka or foster-brother to Akbar who raised him in course of time to the rank of 4,500. Subsequently his uncle Khwaja Hasan's daughter was married to Sultan Salfm, and became mother of Sultan Parwez. In the year 1686 A. D., 994 A. H., Zyn Khan was despatched vrith a considerable detachment against the Afghans of Sawad and Bijour, but he was defeated, and Khwaja Arab Bakhshi, K&ja Birbal, MuUa Sheri and many other persons of distinc- tion, with 8,000 men, were killed in the action. In 1588 he was appointed to the government of Kabul. He died at Agrah on the 6th of Mehr 1009 A. H., corresponding with the 19th of September, 1600 A. D. He is said to have been the best musician of the time of Akbar, but a bad poet. He played chiefly Hindi tunes. (The same as Zain Khan, q. v.) Zyn-uddin Ahmad 'Ali Khan, o'^ ij-^ i^Hj, succeeded Nazir-ul-Mulk Nawab Nazim of Bengal at Murshidabad in April, 1810 A. D. Zyn-uddin bin-Ahmad, '^«^Tt:H t^'^l iifi}, commonlj' called Ibn-Rajab, is the author of the " Sharah Tirmizi", " Sharah Bukhari", and " Tabakat Hanabila." He died in 1393 A. D., 796 A. H. He is sometimes called Zyn-uddin Abdul Rahman bin-Ahmad, vide Abu'l Husain. Zyn-uddin 'Ali-al-Sai'li, t5^~J( e^ij, commonly called the second Shahfd, author of a valuable and volumious commentary upon the Sharaya-al-Islam, entitled the " Masalik-ul-Afham." Zyn-uddin Muhammad Hafi, Shaikh, ii^i.'^f iui) i^^'^) an excellent poet and author who flourished in tha reign of the emperor Humayun. He was called Hafi on account of his walking barefoot. Zyn-ul-'Abidin, tr^J'^'^^t u^j, metropolitan of Seringa- patam and author of the work called "Muwayyad-ul-