Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

294 GltANDSON OF SHAH SHERIF.

Maulvee Meer Syaad Mahumud succeeded,
on the death of his father, in 1822, to the
exalted position amongst Mussulmauns of head
leader and expounder of the Mahumudan law
in the city of Lucknow; he is a person of
unassuming manners and extreme good sense,
is an upright, honest-hearted, religious man,
meriting and receiving the respect and good
opinion of all his countrymen capable of ap-
preciating the worthiness of his general deport-
ment. He is esteemed the most learned
person of the present age amongst Asiatic
scholars; and occupies' his time in study and
devotion, and in giving gratuitous instruction
to youth, at stated hours, in those laws which
he makes his own rule of life. Neither is the
good Maulvee's fame confined to the city in
which he sojourns, as may be gathered from
the following anecdote, which exhibits the up-
right principles of this -worthy man, at the
same time that it discloses the character of a
very amiable female, whose charity was as
unbounded as her memory is revered in Fur-
rukhabaad.