Pir Muhammad Chattha was a
Punjabi Muslim
Punjabi Muslims are Punjabis who are adherents of Islam. With a population of more than 112 million, they are the third-largest predominantly Islam-adhering Muslim ethnicity in the world, after Arabs and Bengalis.
The majority of Punjabi Musl ...
chieftain of the
Chattha clan of
Jats
The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in ...
. He succeeded his father
Nur Muhammad Chattha.
Reign
He is known to be a bitter enemy of
Sukherchakia Misl.‘Chatthian di Var’ existed in oral form which was first recorded by the late Prof. Qazi Fazl-i-Maq and published. The poem makes no mention of the first Chattha chief,
Nur Mohammad. It starts with Pir Mohammad Chattha and
Charat Singh
Sardar Charat Singh (1721–1770 or 1733–1774), also romanised as Charhat Singh, was the founder of Sukerchakia Misl, father of Mahan Singh, and the grandfather of Ranjit Singh, the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He distinguished hims ...
.
Charat Singh
Sardar Charat Singh (1721–1770 or 1733–1774), also romanised as Charhat Singh, was the founder of Sukerchakia Misl, father of Mahan Singh, and the grandfather of Ranjit Singh, the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He distinguished hims ...
, the rising Sikh leader, had developed some enmity with Pir Mohammad about whom the poet says:
اک پیر محمد نام سی دھن جمدی مائی
تے خوشی قبیلہ اپنا سبھ بھیناں بھائی
رسول نگر دا اچودھری، بھو دشمن پائی
تے اس دی وچ پنجاب دے سبھ پھرے دوهائي
Translation:
"Pir Muhammad was a great man
He was a leader of
Rasulnagar
His enemy feared him
His authority echoed throughout all of
Punjab
Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...
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According to the poet
Charat Singh
Sardar Charat Singh (1721–1770 or 1733–1774), also romanised as Charhat Singh, was the founder of Sukerchakia Misl, father of Mahan Singh, and the grandfather of Ranjit Singh, the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He distinguished hims ...
could afford a head-on collision with Pir Mohammad.
Charhat Singh asked Pir Mohammad to pay tribute to him and accept his suzerainty but according to ‘Chatthian di Var’ Pir Muhammad refused to do so:
"Pir Muhammad was asked by Charat Singh to pay tribute but the Singh could not get that until he died".
In 1765 when Lahore was taken by the Sikhs, the Zamzama gun fell to the share of
Charat Singh
Sardar Charat Singh (1721–1770 or 1733–1774), also romanised as Charhat Singh, was the founder of Sukerchakia Misl, father of Mahan Singh, and the grandfather of Ranjit Singh, the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He distinguished hims ...
Sukarchakia who carried it to
Gujranwala
Gujranwala is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, fourth most-populous city in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Located in northern-central Punjab's Rachna Doab, it serves as the headquarters of its Gujranwala District, epony ...
. In the Sardar's absence the gun was captured by Ahmad Khan Chatha, who placed it in his fort of Ahmadnagar. Pir Muhammad quarrelled with his brother for the possession of it and in the fight a son of Pir Muhammad and two sons of Ahmad Khan lost their lives.
Pir Muhammad Chattha built many forts after his name including Kot Mian Khan, Alipur, Naiwala, Kot Salim, Kot Ali Muhammad and Fatehpur.
See also
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Chattha (clan)
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Chattha Dynasty
Chattha (also spelled ''Chatha'') is a politically influential Punjabi people, Punjabi Jat clan concentrated in the Rachna Doab, particularly around the historical Gujranwala District (which includes modern day Wazirabad District, Wazirabad and Ha ...
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Muslim Jats
Jat Muslim or Musalman Jats (; ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (), are an elastic and diverse ethnoreligious subgroup of the Jat people, who follow Islam and are native to the northwestern Indian subcontinent. They are primarily found in Sindh a ...
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Punjabi Muslims
Punjabi Muslims are Punjabis who are adherents of Islam. With a population of more than 112 million, they are the third-largest predominantly Islam-adhering Muslims, Muslim ethnicity in the world, after Arab Muslims, Arabs and Bengali Muslims, ...
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