sentences:  He worked on many paintings for Mughal royalty between 1586 and 1590, when he took part in the Kandhahar campaign of Akbar, but after this seems to have been absent from the Mughal court until around 1605.He may also have been the painter known as Farrukh Hussein, who is recorded in Kabul, where he painted a portrait of Hakim in 1584.A Farrukh Hussein is also mentioned as the foremost painter in Bijapur during these "missing years", and various works in the Bijapur version of Deccan painting have been attributed to him.