Muhammad Sultan (Mughal prince)
| Muhammad Sultan | |||||
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| Shahzada of the Mughal Empire | |||||
| Born |
29 December 1639 Mathura, India | ||||
| Died |
14 December 1676 (aged 36) Salimgarh Fort, Delhi | ||||
| Burial | Qutb Shah, Delhi | ||||
| Spouse |
Padshah Bibi Gulrukh Banu Begum Dostdar Banu Begum Bai Bhut Devi Munawar Khanum (six wives) | ||||
| Issue | Masud Bakhsh | ||||
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| House | Timurid | ||||
| Father | Aurangzeb | ||||
| Mother | Nawab Bai | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
Shahzada Muhammad Sultan (29 December 1639 – 14 December 1676[1]), also known as Sultan, was the first son of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and his second wife Nawab Bai. His younger brother Muazzam later became Emperor Bahadur Shah I in 1707.
Life
April 1656, Muhammad Sultan was appointed as Heir Apparent by his father-in-law Abdullah Qutb Shah, Sultan of Golconda and Hyderabad.
After the succession war of the Mughal Empire began in 1657, he joined his father-in-law Shah Shuja, and was appointed as Chief-in-Commander and Principal Counsellor in 1659.
He rejoined his father on February 20, 1660 and was imprisoned at Salimgarh Fort in Delhi, 8 May 1660. He was transferred to and imprisoned at the Gwalior Fort on the orders of his father, from January 1661 to December 1672.
On December 14, 1676 he died in confinement at Salimgarh Prison.
Marriage
- Padshah Bibi Sahiba, second daughter of Abdu'llah Qutb Shah, Sultan of Golconda (at Golconda, 15 April)
- Gulrukh Banu Begum Sahiba, second daughter of his uncle, Shah Shuja (at Dogachi, Bengal, after 18 June 1659)
- Dostdar Banu Begum Sahiba, a daughter of his uncle, Murad Bakhsh (at Delhi, 26 December 1672)
- Bai Bhut Devi (Phupdevi), a daughter of the Raja of Kishtawar, in the Kashmir hills (at Hasan Abdul, 14 January 1676)
- ?, a niece of his stepmother Daulatabadi Mahal (at Delhi, 9 September 1676)
- Munawar Khanum, a daughter of Ahmad Raza Khan (1676)