Shaybani Khan Uzbek In 1500–01, the conflict between Khanzada's brother, Babur, and the
Uzbeks was at its most intense. For six months,
Shaybani Khan Uzbek besieged Babur in
Samarkand. None of Khanzada and Babur's powerful relatives, such as their paternal uncle,
Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara, the ruler of
Greater Khorasan, sent Babur help. According to the
Akbarnama,
Henry Beveridge, writes that according to the
Shaybani-nama, Khanzada's marriage with Shaybani Khan was a love-match. He also suggests the probability that "Babur has not mentioned the whole of the circumstances and that her [Khanzada] being left behind was a part of Babur's agreement with Shaybani." In July 1500, Khanzada's maternal aunt,
Mihr Nigar Khanum, had been captured by Shaybani Khan and forcibly married to him, 'as part of the spoils'. She was divorced when Shaybani resolved to marry her Timurid niece, Khanzada Begum, as it is unlawful in
Islam for both aunt and niece to be wedded to the same man. After their marriage, Khanzada and Shaybani had one child together, a son, Khurram, who died in his childhood.
Mahdi Khwaja In 1511, at the age of thirty-three, Khanzada was returned to Babur at
Kunduz by
Shah Ismail I (who had defeated Shaybani in the Battle of Marv), with an escort of soldiers. Along with Khanzada came an envoy of Shah Ismail offering friendship and a promise to consider military help under certain conditions. In return, Babur sent Wais Khan Mirza with gifts to the Court of Shah Ismail. Khanzada's second marriage took place with Muhammad Mahdi Khwaja at an unknown date.
Annette Beveridge states that it is possible that the marriage took place within no long time after her return. It is probable that Mahdi's joining of Babur and his marriage with Khanzada took place in the decade 1509–1519, of which no record is known to survive. Mahdi was with Babur in 1519 and is frequently mentioned subsequently. ==Issue==