Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Sayyid Uthman al-Marwandi, known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177 - 19 February 1274), was a Sufi saint and poet of Sehwan in Sindh ¹. The Arabic article's prose states that he was a follower of the Suhrawardi order ². The English and Urdu articles present him as a wandering Qalandar, and the competing readings are preserved in this record ^{1 3}.

He was born in 1177 at Marwand ¹. He travelled widely through the Muslim world before settling at Sehwan, where he lived until his death ¹. Tradition counts him among the Chahar Yar, "the four friends", with Bahauddin Zakariya, Baba Farid and Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari ¹. The name Qalandar marks a wandering spiritual man who has renounced the world ¹.

He died at Sehwan on 19 February 1274, the day resting on the English article's cited Pakistan Today source ¹. The Arabic article gives his death in 673 AH, and the Urdu article converts 673 AH to 1275, a year later than the English article; the disagreement is preserved in the record ^{2 3}. His shrine at Sehwan draws large crowds of devotees, above all at his annual urs ¹.