The Suri tribe of the Afghans inhabited the mountains of Ghor east of
Furrah and their principal cities were Ghore,
Feruzi and
Bamian.[4]
It was at the time of this bounty of Sultán Bahlol, that the grandfather of Sher Sháh, by name Ibráhím Khán Súr,[note 1] with his son Hasan Khán, the father of Sher Sháh, came to
Hindu-stán from
Afghánistán, from a place which is called in the
Afghán tongue "Shargarí,"* but in the Multán tongue "Rohrí." It is a ridge, a spur of the
Sulaimán Mountains, about six or seven kos in length, situated on the banks of the
Gumal. They entered into the service of Muhabbat Khán Súr, Dáúd Sáhú-khail, to whom Sultán Bahlol had given in jágír the parganas of Hariána and Bahkála, etc., in the
Panjáb, and they settled in the pargana of Bajwára.[5]
^The Súr represent themselves as descendants of Muhammad Súr, one of the princes of the
house of the Ghorian, who left his native country, and married a daughter of one of the Afghán chiefs of Roh.