Vakil under Akbar
Son of Bairam Khan, raised at Akbar's court after his father's murder, 'Abdu'r-Rahim rose through provincial commands until he reached the highest civil office of the reign: "In the same year 998, 1590, he was made Vakil, and received Jaunpūr in fief." (vol. I, p. 52) He went on to hold Multan and, in the emperor's name, to conquer Tatta and the territory of Sind, the page noting that Shaikh Faizi found the chronogram for the campaign. He also presented Akbar a Persian translation of the Memoirs of Babar, and was much praised for it.
Disgrace under Jahangir, death at Delhi
Under Jahangir, 'Abdu'r-Rahim's loyalties were tested through the wars between the emperor and Shah Jahan; twice imprisoned on suspicion of treachery and twice forgiven, he had the boast engraved on his ring that God's help had "twice given me life and twice the Khān-Khānānī." Sent out again in old age to campaign against the rebel Mahabat Khan, he fell ill before the task was finished. The page records that "He fell ill in Lahore, and came to Delhi and died there at the age of 72 in 1036, 1627, at the end of the 21st year of Jahangir." (vol. I, p. 61) He was buried near Humayun's tomb.