Editing Muhammad Shah (section)

==Marriages==
Emperor Muhammad Shah had four wives. His first wife and chief consort was his first-cousin, Princess [[Badshah Begum]], the daughter of Emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]] and his first wife, Gauhar-un-Nissa Begum.<ref name="Sarkar97">{{cite book|last1=Sarkar|first1=Jadunath|title=Fall of the Mughal Empire.|date=1997|publisher=Orient Longman|location=Hyderabad|isbn=9788125011491|page=169|edition=4th}}</ref> They married after his accession, on 8 December 1721, at Delhi,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awrangābādī|first1=Shāhnavāz Khān|last2=Prashad|first2=Baini|last3=Shāhnavāz|first3=ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn|title=The Maāthir-ul-umarā: being biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D.|date=1979|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|page=652|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfG1AAAAIAAJ&q=muhmmad+shah+8+december+1721|language=en}}</ref> and he gave her the title ''Malika-uz-Zamani'' (Queen of the Age)<ref name="malik"/> by which she was popularly known. They had a son, Shahriyar Shah Bahadur, who died young in 1726.<ref name="malik"/>  She died on 14 December 1789. 

Muhammad Shah took a second wife, [[Sahiba Mahal]], and had a daughter [[Hazrat Begum]], who was married to [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]] in 1757.<ref name="google6">{{cite book |author1=Hoiberg, D. |url=https://archive.org/details/studentsbritanni03hoib |title=Students' Britannica India |author2=Ramchandani, I. |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica (India) |year=2000 |isbn=9780852297605 |url-access=registration |issue=v. 1-5}}</ref>

His third wife was a dancing girl, [[Qudsia Begum, Begum of Bhopal]], who bore him his successor, [[Ahmad Shah Bahadur]] on 23 December 1725. Upon his birth, he was taken from her and was lovingly brought up by Badshah Begum, who considered him her own son. It was through Badshah Begum's efforts that Ahmad Shah was able to ascend the throne upon Muhammad Shah's death in 1748.<ref name="Latif">{{cite book|last=Latif|first=Bilkees I.|title=Forgotten|year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9780143064541|page=49}}</ref>