Ghazi Saiyyed Salar Sahu or Saiyed Salar Dawood or Sahu Bin Ataullah Alavi or Salar Sahu ( fa, غازى سيد سالار ساھو) was commander in the army of
Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi who came to the
Indian subcontinent
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in the early 11th century.
Salar Sahu was a descendant of
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, son of
Ali
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...
. His father's name was Tahir Ataullah, and his son was
Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud. He had two brothers one of them was Syed Maroofuddin Ghazi. He was probably a brother-in-law of
Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi, purportedly married to the latter's sister, Sitr-i-Mu'alla. He came to India along with Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi as his army commander.
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He died nearly 1000 years ago in
Satrikh
Satrikh is a town and a nagar panchayat in Barabanki district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Satrikh is also known as Sulaimanabad after the name of Saiyed Salar Sulaiman, the nephew of Ghazi Saiyed Salar Dawood.
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and is buried there.
Tomb of Sayed Salar Sahu
The
mausoleum of Salar Sahu is situated in
Satrikh
Satrikh is a town and a nagar panchayat in Barabanki district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Satrikh is also known as Sulaimanabad after the name of Saiyed Salar Sulaiman, the nephew of Ghazi Saiyed Salar Dawood.
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also known as Sulaimanabad, away from
Barabanki
Barabanki is a city and a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is administrative headquarters of Barabanki district. The city is about 30 km east of Lucknow, the state capital. It has a population of 146,831 with a dens ...
, in
Uttar Pradesh
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. At his grave the people gather to pilgrimage during the full moon of the
Hindu month of
Jyeshta during the summer. There is a five-day-long
urs
Urs (from ''‘Urs'') or ''Urus'' (literal meaning wedding), is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the saint's dargah (shrine or tomb). In most Sufi orders such as Naqshbandiyyah, Suhrawardiyya, Chishtiyya, Qadiriyya, etc ...
during which thousands of devotees pray. His tomb is known as "Budhe Baba ki mazar" (Grand Master's Mausoleum).
Vidyajyoti Institute of Religious Studies, Vikas Pub. House, 1989
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People from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh
Ghaznavid Empire
Medieval India
Ghaznavid generals