Ahmad Shah Bahadur

Ahmad Shah Bahadur (23 December 1725 – 1 January 1775) was the fourteenth Mughal emperor, reigning from 29 April 1748 to 2 June 1754, a son of the emperor Muhammad Shah and Qudsia Begum ¹.

As a prince he won his reputation at the Battle of Manupur in 1748, defeating Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion ¹. Crowned the same year on his father's death, he left the affairs of a weakening empire to rival court factions, and power gathered in the hands of the vizier Imad-ul-Mulk, who deposed and blinded him in 1754 and raised Alamgir II in his place ¹. He spent the remaining twenty years of his life a prisoner at Delhi and died there on 1 January 1775; he was buried at the Moti Masjid in Mehrauli ^{1 2}.

His legal school is unattested in the sources consulted. The English article's infobox gives Sunni Islam (Hanafi) ¹, but the Arabic article's infobox leaves the religion field blank ³ and Wikidata records Islam generically ²; a single structured attestation does not settle a school.

The English article and Wikidata agree at day precision on both his birth (23 December 1725) and his death (1 January 1775) ^{1 2}. His father Muhammad Shah has no museum record yet, so no father edge is recorded. He was not a son of Alamgir II — Alamgir II was the successor placed on the throne after his deposition.