Fazl ‘Ali Fazli's compilation Karbal Kathā plays a vital role in Urdū literature. The style of this compilation has been overviewed in this article. Shah ‘Alam Sani's compilation ‘Ajaib al-Qiṣaṣ also plays important role in the progress of Urdū prose after Fazl ‘Ali Fazli’s. Sani's compilation has been analyzed to evaluate Urdū prose in a literary perspective thus to prove that it has gone through levels of simplicity and fluency. Furthermore, the article visibly expresses simplicity of Urdū prose before Fort William College and tries to define the phases it underwent to reach present stage.

(1)     Faẓl ‘Ali Faẓli, Karbal Kathā, (Delhi: Department of Urdū, Delhi Univrsity 1961), p. 28.

(2)     ibid, p. 28.

(3)     Shaikh Zahūr al-Dīn Ḥatim, Divān Zadā, comp. Ghulam Ḥusain Ẕulfiqār, (Lahore: Majlis-i Tarraqi-i Adab, 2009), p.38.

(4)     ibid.

(5)     Faẓl ‘Ali Faẓli, Karbal Kathā, p.73.

(6)     ibid, p.76-77.

(7)     Khalīq Anjum, Gopi Chand Narang, Karbal Kathā kā Lisāni Mutala’a, (Delhi: Maktaba Shahrah-i Urdū Bazar, 1970), p.7.

(8)     Shaikh Zahūr al-Dīn Ḥatim, Divān Zadā, pp.23-24.

(9)     Ṅuskha-i Mufarrih al- Ziḥak min Tib al-Ẕarāfat, Shah Ḥatim, comp. Humayūn Mirza, incl. Monthly Āj Kal, Delhi, December 1958, p. 37-38.

(10)   Mīr Ḥasan, Tazkira Sho’ara-i Urdū, (Delhi: Anjuman Taraqqi-i Urdū Hind, 1940), p.138.

(11)   Qur’ān-i Karīm ma’ Tarjuma va Tafsīr, (Madīna Munavvara: Shah Fahad Qur’ān-i Karīm printing complex, 1419 A.H), pp. 128-129.

(12)   Al- Qur’ān, trans. Shah Rafi’ al-Dīn, (Lahore: Qudrat Allah Company), pp. 57-58.

(13)   Qur’ān Majīd, trans. Shah ‘Abd al-Qādir, (Karachi: Qazalbāsh Nāshir), pp. 24-25.

(14)   ‘Isavi Khan Bahadur, Mehr Afroz va Dilbar, comp. Masūd Ḥusain Khan, (Haidarabad: Department of Urdū, Osmania University, 1966)

(15)   Gayan Chand Jain, Urdū ki Nasrī Dāstāneṉ, (Karachi: Anjuman-i Tarraqi-i Urdū Pakistan, 2014), p.203.

(16)   ibid, pp. 208, 2011.

(17)   ibid, p. 214.

(18)   Shah ‘Ālam Sani, ‘Ajaib al-Qiṣaṣ, comp. Raḥat Afza Bukhari, (Lahore: Majlis Tarraqi-i Adab, 1965), p. 15.

(19)   ibid, p. 25.

(20)   ibid, p. 26.

(21)   ibid, pp. 28-29.

(22)   ibid, pp. 75-76.

(23)   ibid, pp. 106-107.

(24)   ibid, p. 77.

(25)   Jamīl Jalibi, Tārīkh-i Adab-i Urdū, (Lahore: Majlis Tarraqi-i Adab, 1982), v.2, Part: 2, p. 1115.

(26)   Gayan Chand Jain, Urdū ki Nasrī dāstāneṉ, p.408.

(27)   Mīr Inshaullah Khan Insha, Rānī Kaitki aur Kunvar Ūdhay Bhan ki Kahanī, comp. Maulavi ‘Abdul Ḥaq, (Karachi: Anjuman Tarraqi-i Urdū, 2003), p. 47.

(28)   Gayan Chand Jain, Urdū ki Nasrī Dāstāneṉ, p.411.

(29)   ibid, p.416.