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 Hamid 103 Harindar of Persia, was a contemporary of the poet Anwari, and is the author of a Commentary on the Kuran called " Mu- kamat." Hamid Ali, Mirza, ts^ 13/* j or more properly Prince Mirza Hamid 'All', son of Wajid 'AH Shah, the last king of Lakhnau. He accompanied his grandmother the Dowager Queen of Lakhnau to England to claim his right, in 1856. Vide Jawad AH. Hamid, '>^^, or Abdul Hamid Yahia, a celebrated caUi- grapher, who reformed the Arabian characters in the reign of the Khalif Muawia II, of the house of Umaiya. He died in 749 A. D., 132 A. H. Hamid-uddin Ali-al-Bukhari, tf^^- I ij^ iifi'^^ 1^*=^, author of a short Commentary on the Hidaya, en- titled the " Fawaed." He died in 1268 A. D., 667 A. H. Hamid Kirmani, (j^^^ poetical name of Sheikh Aohad-uddm Kurmani. Hamid-tdlah Khan, u^'^ author of the Ahadi's-ul-Khawanin, also called " Tarlkh-i-Hamid," which contains a history of Chatgawn (Chittagong). Printed at Calcutta in 1871. Hammad, ^^*^} the son of Abu Hanifa, who was a learn- ed man, and died in the year 792 A. D., 176 A. H. Hamza, Amir, ?>*^ J"**'; the son of Abdul MuttaUb, and uncle of Muhammad, who gave him the title of Asad-uUah, or the Hon of God, because of his courage and valour, and put into his hands the first standard he ordered to be made, which was called " Eaet-ul-Islam," the ^standard of the faith. Hamza, who was also called Abu 'Umar, was killed in the battle of Chad which Muhammad fought with the Kureshites, of whom Abu Sufian was the chief. After the battle, Hinda, the wife of Abu Sufian, pulled out Hamza's Uver out of his body and chewed and swallowed some of it. This battle took place in the month of March, 625 A. D., Shawal, 3 A. H. Hamza Bano Begam, c^.^.yk »>=^, daughter of Shah .Jah&n by Kandahan' Begam, daughter of MuzafFar Husain Mirza of the royal race of Shah Isma'il Safwi. She was born in the year 1019 A. H. Hamza Mirza, 'j^'" ?>*'^j the eldest son of Sultan Mu- hammad Khuda Banda, and the grandson of Shah Tahmasp I of the Safwi family of Persia. His father, on account of a natural weakness in his eyes, which ren- dered him almost blind, had at first entrusted the charge of the empire to his wazir, Mirza Sulaiman ; when that nobleman was slain, he created his own son, Hamza Mirza, regent of the empire. This prince, by his valour, extricated his weak father from all the diflS.culties with which he was surrounded. But this gleam of good for- tune soon vanished. This gallant prince was stabbed by a barber, in his own private apartments on the 24th of November, 1586 A. D., 22nd ZU-hijja 994 A. H. Hanbal, Imam, T^'' o^ Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, the son of Muhammad-ibn-Hanbal, was the fourth Imam or founder of one of the four orthodox sects of the Sunnis called HanbaHtes. This sect made a great noise in Bagh- dad in the reign of the KhaHf Al-Muktadir in 929 A. D., 317 A. H., Merouzl chief of the sect, had asserted that God had placed Muhammad on his throne, which asser- tion he founded upon the passage of the Kuran : " Thy Lord shall soon give thee a considerable place or station." All the other sects of the Musalmans regard the expHca- tion of the HanbaHtes as a shocking impiety. They maintain that this ' considerable place or station,' was the post or quaUty of a mediator, which they affirm to belong to their prophet. This dispute passed from the schools to the pubHc assemblies. At length they came from words to blows which cost the Hves of several thousands. In the year 935 A. D., 323 A. H., the HanbaHtes became so insolent, that they marched in arms on the city of Baghdad, and plundered the shops on pretence that ■wine was drunk in them. Ahmad was a traditionist of the first class, and composed a collection of authenticated traditions called " Masnad" more copious than those any other person had till then been able to form : it is said that he knew by-heart one milHon of those traditions. He was born in the year 780 A. D., 164 A. H., and died on the 31st July, 855 A. D., 12th Eabi' I, 241 A. H., in the reign of the Khalif Al-Mutwak- kil, and was buried at Baghdad. It was estimated that the number of men present at his funeral was 800.000, and women 60,000 ; and it is said that 20,000 Christians, Jews and Magians became Moslems on the day of his death. In the year 835 A. D., Kamazan, 220 A. H., some time in the month of September, he was required by the IBiaHf Al-Motasim Billah to declare that the Kuran was created, but would not, and although beaten and imprisoned, persis- ted in his refusal. The eternity of the Kuran, considered as the word of God, is the orthodox Moslem doctiinc. Handal Mirza, ^jj"' O^i^^ son of the emperor Babar Shah, and brother of Humajoin, was bom in the year 1518 A. D., 924 A. H. He lost his life in a night attack made by his brother Kamran Mirza on the emperor Humayiin near Khaibar in the province of Kabul, on the 19th of November, 1551 A. D., 21st Zi-Ka'da, 958 A. H. He is buried at Kabul close to the tomb of the emperor Babar Shah. Humayun, out of aficction to the memory of Handal Mirza, in the same year, gave the daughter of that prince, Eazia Sultana, to his son Akbar in marriage. Hani, ls^^ surname of Muhammad-bin-' AH, a poet who died in the year 1333 A. D., 733 A. H. Hanifa Imam, also caUed Abu Ham'fa and Imam 'Azim, was one of the four Jurisconsults of Mecca ; viz., Imam Hanifa, Imam Hanbal, Imam Shafa'i and Imam Malik, from whom are derived the various Codes of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. He was one of the most celebrated doctors of the Musalmans, and chief of the sect of Hanffltes ; and though his sect is the pi-incipal, of the four which they now indifferently follow, he was ill- used during his lifetime, and died in the prison at Bagh- dad 767 A. D., 150 A. H. His principal works are, the " Musnad," i. e., the foundation ox support, wherein he established aU the points of the Musalman faith : a Treatise entitled " Filkalam," or Scholastic Divinity ; and a Catechism caUed " Mua'llim-ul-Islam" i. e., the Instructor. His principal work is entitled the " Fikh-ul-Akbar," it treats of the Ilm-ul-Kalam, and has been commented upon by various writers, many of whom are mentioned by Haji Khalfa. Vide Abu Hanifa. Some say that the Musnad was vsrritten by Imam Hanbal. By the Shias he is as much detested and censured, as by their antago- nists he is admired and exalted. For aUowing his disci- ples to drink nabtz, which is a wine made of dates, he is accused by the Persians of departing from the clear injunction of the Prophet against aU intoxicating bever- ages. Harindar Narain Bhup, Maharaja, ^^n^ er;!!/^ jiij^ da-ljl^^ the raja of Kuch Behar, who died at Be- nares on the 30th May, 1839, aged 70 years. He was of the Eajbansi caste, and a follower of Siva, but his style of living was very unlike that of a Hindu. He used" to marry without any regard to caste, and entered into the connubial relation with any woman he took a fancy to. He did not even spare married women. The number of his wives or ranis was no less than 1200 !