A brief assortment of ?Abd al-?am?d's letters together with his prolegomenon is taken into account his early do the job.[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 write down official chronicle of his reign on the recommendation of his grand vizier Nawab Sa?dall?h Khan, as emperor