Nizamuddin Awliya

Nizam al-Din Awliya (1238 - 3 April 1325) was the Chishti master of Delhi ¹. The English article's lead calls him an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order ¹. The Arabic article's prose likewise calls him a Sufi of the Chishti order ². He was a disciple of Baba Farid and his successor ¹.

His full name is given as Muhammad b. Ahmad Ali al-Badaoni al-Bukhari, his family being of Bukhara origin settled at Badayun, where he was born in 1238 ¹. The Arabic article dates his birth at Badayun to 633 AH, and the Urdu article's birth section converts his traditional birth in Safar 636 AH to 1237, against its own lead's 1238; those variants are preserved in the record ^{2 3}. His father died while he was young, and he was raised in poverty by his mother and came to Delhi to study ³.

At Ajodhan he became a disciple of the Sufi saint Fariduddin Ganjshakar, commonly known as Baba Farid ¹. He visited Ajodhan each year to spend Ramadan with his master ¹. On his third visit, Baba Farid made him his successor ¹. The Urdu article devotes a section to his discipleship and succession under Baba Farid ³.

He settled at Ghiyaspur in Delhi, where his khanqah drew students and visitors from every rank while he himself refused service at the sultans' court ¹. His predecessors in the Chishti chain — Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki and Moinuddin Chishti — are named in the article as the masters of the order's spiritual chain ¹. He died at Delhi on 3 April 1325, given as 18 Rabi al-Thani 725 AH ¹.