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{{short description|Sufi saint who founded Madarriya Silsila}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|name=Badi' al-Din
|image=Main Gate of Blessed Shrine Of Hazrat Syed Badiuddin Ahmad Zinda Shah Qutbul Madar.jpg
|alt=Shah Madar
|caption=Main gate of the shrine of Badi' al-Din
|religion=[[Islam]]
|denomination=[[Sunni]]
|school=[[Hanafi]]
|school_tradition = [[Maturidi]]
|order=[[Madariyya]]|
flourished=[[Islamic golden age]]
| birth_name=Badi' al-Din
|birth_date=1315 CE<ref name="EI3"/>
|birth_place=[[Aleppo]], [[Syria]]
|death_date=1434 CE<ref name="EI3"/>
|death_place=[[Makanpur]], [[Kanpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
|children=
|parents=
|teacher=[[Muhammad Tayfur Shami|Muḥammad Ṭayfūr Shāmī]]
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'''Badīʿ al-Dīn''',<ref name="EI3">{{EI3|last=Falasch|first=Ute|title=Badīʿ al- Dīn|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/badi-al-din-COM_23253?s.num=9&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-3&s.q=Chisht%C4%AB+Mu%CA%BF%C4%ABn+al-D%C4%ABn+%E1%B8%A4asan|year=2009}}</ref><ref name="Wise2016">{{cite book|author=James Wise|title=Notes on the Races, Castes and Trades of Eastern Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzUlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78|date=10 November 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-99740-9|page=78}}</ref> known as '''Shāh Madār''',<ref name="EI3"/> and by the title '''Qutb-ul-Madar''' 1315–1434),<ref name="EI3"/><ref name="bhatt">{{cite journal |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Ananda |title=Madariya Sufi Silsila Their Distinctive Characteristics and Relations with the Indian Powers |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=2008 |volume=69 |pages=384–402 |jstor=44147203 }}</ref> was a [[Syrians|Syrian]]<ref name="EI3"/> [[Sufism|Sufi]] who migrated to India where he founded the [[Madariyya]] Sufi brotherhood.<ref name="EI3"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkYLAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=The Institute|page=241}}</ref> He is held in high esteem as a [[patron saint]].<ref name="EI3"/>

==Biography==
Badi' al-Din hailed originally from [[Syria (region)|Syria]], and was born in [[Aleppo]] in 1315 CE.<ref name="EI3"/><ref>{{Cite book|last=Suvorova|first=A. A.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57176198|title=Muslim saints of South Asia : the eleventh to fifteenth centuries|date=2004|publisher=RoutledgeCurzon|isbn=0-203-59271-9|location=London|pages=171|oclc=57176198}}</ref> In later centuries, a growing number of legends arose in relation to Badi' al-Din, which resulted in sources continuously backdating his year of birth.<ref name="EI3"/> These same sources also disagree about Badi' al-Din's descent.<ref name="EI3"/> Some state that he was a ''[[sayyid]]'', that is, a descendant of the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]], and trace his descent back to Imam [[Ja'far al-Sadiq]] (died 765 CE).<ref name="EI3"/> Others mention descent from Muhammad's companion (''[[Companions of the Prophet|sahabi]]'') [[Abu Hurayra]], who died {{circa|678}} CE.<ref name="EI3"/> The assertion that Badi' al-Din was a [[Jews|Jew]] who had converted to Islam is not corroborated by other sources.<ref name="EI3"/>

His teacher was [[Muhammad Tayfur Shami|Muḥammad Ṭayfūr Shāmī]].<ref name="Titus1930">{{cite book|author=Murray Thurston Titus|title=Indian Islam: a religious history of Islam in India|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280326|year=1930|publisher=H. Milford, Oxford university press|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280326/page/n145 128]}}</ref> After making a [[Hajj|pilgrimage]] to [[Medina]], he journeyed to India to spread the Islamic faith. He converted many Hindus to Islam in India.<ref name="Wise2016"/> Here he founded the [[Madariyya]] order.<ref name=bhatt/> His tomb, built by order of Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi ({{reign}}1402–40),<ref name="EI3"/> is at [[Makanpur]].<ref name="Luniya1955">{{cite book|author=Bhanwarlal Nathuram Luniya|title=Evolution of Indian culture (From the earliest times to the present day)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLQ5AQAAIAAJ|year=1955|publisher=L.N. Agarwal|page=439}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Sufi saints]]
[[Category:Islamic philosophers]]
[[Category:People from Aleppo]]
[[Category:Syrian Sufi saints]]
[[Category:Syrian emigrants]]
[[Category:Burials in India]]
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