A brief selection of ?Abd al-?am?d's letters with his prolegomenon is considered his early work.[3] In his State-of-the-art age, ?Abd al-?am?d retired to Patna, from where by he was summoned by Shah Jah?n to put in writing Formal chronicle of his reign on the advice of his grand vizier Nawab Sa?dall?h Khan, as emperor wished somebody who could emul