*Tarikh-e-Amroha – Part 2*


Syed-ul-Hasan, Syed Hasan, known as Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat, came to Amroha from Sultanpur in the vicinity of Multan along with his maternal uncle and other relatives, and here he came to be called Shah Wilayat. 


His elder son Qazi Syed Amir Ali, ancestor of the Sayyids of Mohalla Lakda Haqqani, also served Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq. Syed Muhammad Mir Adl of Amroha, his descendants, and brothers rendered splendid military and civil service to the Sultan. In that era, a considerable army and force used to stay in Amroha. 


Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq also recruited royal troops from Amroha. During this very king’s reign, Ibn Battuta came to Amroha. He writes in his travelogue: “On the king’s order, the Wazir gave me 10,000, and for the remainder he wrote that 1,000 should be paid from the region of Amroha. So, to collect it and to settle a dispute between the local governor and the amir here, Ibn Battuta undertook the journey to Amroha. He stayed here for two months.” 


About Amroha he writes: “Then we reached Amroha, a small beautiful city. Its officials came out to receive us. The city’s Qazi Syed Amir Ali and the Khanqah’s Sheikh both came, and together they arranged hospitality very well.” 


Sultan Muhammad Shah Tughlaq appointed the famous physician Aziz Hammar of Amroha as governor of the province of Malwa. The Sayyids of Mohalla Naugaiya received many villages in this region as stipends and maintenance grants. 


In the time of Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq, all the forests of the regions of Amroha and Sambhal were cleared of miscreants.


_Source: Tarikh-e-Amroha – Mahmud Ahmad Abbasi_

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