[2] Chand Bibi was the daughter of Hussain Nizam Shah I of Ahmednagar, India[3][unreliable source?]

[4] Following an alliance policy, Chand Bibi was married to Ali Adil Shah I of the Bijapur Sultanate.

[7] After his death in 1580, the Shi'a nobles proclaimed his nine-year-old nephew Ibrahim Adil Shah II as the ruler.

[8] Chand Bibi challenged Kishvar Khan, but he got her imprisoned at the Satara fort and tried to declare himself the king.

He was forced to flee when a joint army led by a Habshi general called Ikhlas Khan marched to Bijapur.

[7] Abu-ul-Hassan, a Shi'a general appointed by Chand Bibi, called for the Maratha forces in Carnatic.

The Marathas attacked the invaders' supply lines,[8] forcing the Ahmednagar-Golconda allied army to retreat.

After his death, some nobles felt that his infant son Bahadur Shah should be proclaimed the King under the regency of Chand Bibi (his father's aunt).

The rising dissent among the nobles prompted Miyan Manju to invite Akbar's son Murad Mirza (who was in Gujarat) to march his army to Ahmednagar.

[9] However, while Murad was on march to Ahmednagar, many noblemen left Ikhlas Khan and joined Miyan Manju.

He requested Chand Bibi to accept the regency, and marched out of Ahmednagar with Ahmed Shah II.

Later, Shah Murad sent an envoy to Chand Bibi, offering to raise the siege in return for the cession of Berar.

[11] In Ahmednagar, Chand Bibi's authority was being resisted by the newly appointed minister Nehang Khan.

Nehang Khan had recaptured the town of Beed, taking advantage of Khan-I-Khana's absence and of the rainy season.

[10] Hamid Khan, a nobleman, exaggerated and spread the false news that Chand Bibi was in treaty with the Mughals.

After her death, and a siege of four months and four days, Ahmednagar was captured by the Mughal forces of Daniyal and Mirza Yusuf Khan on 18 August 1600.

[16]: 199 Indian filmmaker Narayanrao D. Sarpotdar made Chandbibi (or Queen of Ahmednagar) a silent film in 1931.

Sultana Chand bibi, an Indian Hindi-language film about the queen, starring Shakuntala Paranjpye released in 1937.

[17] Mirabutorab Torabi Mashhadi[18] received a mission from Nizam Shah of Deccan to bring the bones of Chand Bibi to Mashhad and bury them next to the Imam Reza shrine.