Mirza of Danabad and Sahiban of Khiva were cousins brought up together. She was married off. He came for her on his mare Bakki with his bow, and they fled.
He stopped to sleep under a jand tree. Sahiban, seeing her brothers coming, broke his arrows and hung them in the tree, so that he would not kill her brothers and they would not kill him. Both calculations failed. Her brothers killed him while he was unarmed and she died there.
Peelu's version is the standard one. Hafiz Barkhurdar wrote another.
Alone among the four great qissas, this one blames the woman. Sahiban breaking the arrows is proverbial in Punjabi for a decision that destroys everyone, and the phrase is used about women generally. The story is told at least as often as an indictment as a tragedy.
That makes it the most argued-over of the qissas, and modern retellings have gone back to it repeatedly to ask what a woman caught between a lover and her brothers was actually supposed to do.
The qissa turns on Sahiban breaking Mirza's arrows while he sleeps, so that when her brothers come he cannot fight. Both are killed.
That act is why the story is argued about. Every telling has to decide whether she was protecting her brothers, her lover, or neither, and Peelu's version does not resolve it.
It is the most fatalistic of the four great qissas and the least romantic. The other three end in death by circumstance and this one ends in a choice.