At that time, the Khan sent Amir Zia-ud-Din, who was one of the most eminent Sayyids of Kashghar, to Sultan Muhammad, in Badakhshan, to ask one of his most immaculate daughters in marriage.
[9] Shah Begum left the Mongol region for family reasons, and after wandering for a long time she met her step grandson Babur in Kabul in 1505.
[10] Shah Begum who was the woman of spirit, and of intrigue, resolved to raise her favourite grandson, Khan Mirza to the throne.
The real head of the conspiracy, however, seems to have been Muhammad Hussain Mirza, though he was anxious not to appear, and left the ostensible management of the affair to Shah Begum.
When the khan retired into the desert, after he was released by Muhammad Shaybani, she found herself, thwarted by his ministers, which produced a quarrel with her son.
Unable to bear the contradiction to which she was now subjected, and to which she had never been accustomed, she repaired to Samarkand, under pretense of solicitation from Sheibani some district as a settlement for the khan, and she there appears to have passed her time very comfortably, in the society of her daughters, and of numerous female connections.
He had pushed forward to meet with Zobayr of Ragh, a man of no family, and to announce the coming of the begum, when he fell in with a detachment of the army of Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat, which attacked and dispersed his few followers.
Shah Begum, his aunt and, the other ladies who followed behind, were surprised and carried off to Abu Bakr, in whose prisons they died, after much cruel suffering.