Sayyid Ali Tirmizi ( ps, سيد علي ترمذي), more commonly known as Pir Baba (), was a

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, and a

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who settled in

Buner Buner District ( ps, بونیر ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Before becoming a district in 1991, it was a tehsil within Swat District. History The Buner Valley lies bet ...

(present-day

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) among the

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. He was probably born in 908 AH (1502 CE), in

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(present-day

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), of

descent, died in AH 991 (1583 CE). He was a supporter of the Mughal emperor

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, and was an opponent of Bayazid Pir Roshan. It is claimed that Pir Baba was the son of Sayyid Qamar Ali, who was in emperor Babur's army and had come down to Delhi as the governor of the Indian state. His mother was of Uzbek origin. Baba was more inclined towards Islamic studies. Baba supposedly married a sister of

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; a respected

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from

. He had 2 sons, Sayyid Habibullāh Shaah and Sayyid Mustafa Shaah. Anwar Baig Baghi, a descendant of Pir Baba in his 12th generation, made news because "he could read only up to fifth grade but he penned down over 50 books on a variety of topics." Shodago Baba Ji was also one of his descendants. His descendants are also known as Tirmizi Sayyids.

Lineage

Ali Tirmizi was a descendant of

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through Sultan Sadaat

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bin Imam Hasan al-Askari, his family tree lineage: 1.

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and Fatima Al Zahra 3.

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4. Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin 5. Imam Muhammad al Baqir 6. Imam Ja'far al-Sâdiq 7. Imam Musa al-Kazim 8. Imam Ali al Reza 9. Imam Muhammad al Taqi 10. Imam Ali al Hadi 11. Sayyid Muhammad Samarkandi 12. Sayyid Mahmud 13. Sayyid Abdulrahim 14. Sayyid Muayyid Amir Ali 15. Sayyid Jalaluddin Ganj ul Alam 16. Sayyid Nasir Khusro 17. Sayyid Husamuddin 18. Sayyid Muhammad 19. Sayyid Umar 20. Sayyid Ja’far 21. Sayyid Usman 22. Sayyid Ishaq 23. Sayyid Muhammad 24. Sayyid Hamid 25. Sayyid Ayyub Abu Turab 26. Sayyid Ahmad Mushtaq 27. Sayyid Ahmad Ali Barraq 28. Sayyid Ahmad Begim 29. Sayyid Muhammad Nur Bakhsh 30. Sayyid Yusuf Nur 31. Sayyid Ahmad Nur 32. Sayyid Qanbar Ali Shah Ferghani 33. Sayyid Ali Tirmizi Pir Baba Buner

Shrine (Mazar)

Baba's grave and shrine is in Pacha Killay village in the mountainous

Buner District Buner District ( ps, بونیر ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Before becoming a district in 1991, it was a tehsil within Swat District. History The Buner Valley lies ...

of present-day

. The shrine was closed by the

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temporarily.

Urs Mubarak

The annual ''Urs'' or Pilgrimage of Hazrat Pir Baba is celebrated from 24 to 26 Rajab of the Islamic calendar every year in Buner.

References

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