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{{for|his cousin of the same name|Pir Muhammad (son of Umar Shaikh)}}
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{{Infobox royalty
|name = Pir Muhammad
|title = [[Timurid Dynasty|Timurid Prince]]
|birth_date = 1374
|birth_place =
|death_date = {{death year and age|1407|1374}}
|death_place = [[Afghanistan]]
|place of burial= [[Gur-e-Amir]], [[Samarkand]] (present-day [[Uzbekistan]])
|spouse = Sabur Sultan (granddaughter of [[Shah Shoja Mozaffari|Shah Shuja]]) ''Several other wives''
|issue = Qaidu Buzanchar Jahangir Sanjar Makhdum Sultan Shah Sultan Biki ''Several other children''
|full name =
|house = [[Timurid dynasty|House of Timur]]
|father = [[Jahangir Mirza (Timurid Prince)|Jahangir Mirza]]
|mother = Bakht Malik Agha of the Yasauri
|religion = [[Islam]]
}}

'''Pir Muhammad Mirza''' (c. 1374 – 22 February 1407) was a [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] prince and briefly succeeded as King of [[Timurid Empire]] after the death of his grandfather [[Timur|Timur the Lame]].<ref name="Jackson-1120">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fY01Tc2SZVEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6|author=Peter Jackson, Lawrence Lockhart|year=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521246996|pages=98–99|access-date=2013-01-02}}</ref> He was the son of [[Jahangir Mirza (Timurid Prince)|Jahangir Mirza]] who was the actual successor to the throne but had died before his father. Next in line was [[Umar Shaikh Mirza I]] but he too died.<ref name="Jackson-1120"/> Pir Muhammad's brother [[Muhammad Sultan Mirza|Muhammad Sultan]] was appointed Timur's heir, but he had succumbed to battle-wounds in 1403.<ref>Beatrice Forbes Manz, ''Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran'' (2007), p. 16</ref><ref>Marthe Bernus-Taylor, ''Tombs of Paradise: The Shah-e Zende in Samarkand and Architectural Ceramics of Central Asia'' (2003), p. 27</ref> This left [[Shah Rukh]], whom [[Timur]] considered too meek to rule and [[Miran Shah]] who suffered from mental difficulties post head trauma. Timur felt that none of his sons were capable of ruling so he named Pir Muhammad as his successor.<ref name="Jackson-1120"/>

Pir Muhammad had been Governor of [[Kandahar]] since 1392.<ref name="Jackson-1120"/> His territory extended from the lands west of the [[Hindu Kush]] to the [[Indus River]].<ref name="Jayapalan-1105">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fY01Tc2SZVEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=History of India|author=N. Jayapalan|year=2001|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors|isbn=9788171569281|pages=50–51|access-date=2013-01-02}}</ref> In the fall of 1397 he led the first wave of Timurids into [[India]], and was invested with the rulership of [[Multan]].<ref name="Jayapalan-1105"/> However, none of Pir Muhammad's relatives supported him following Timur's death. He was unable to assume command in [[Samarkand]]. He went into battle twice against [[Khalil Sultan]] a cousin and the other claimant to the throne but was defeated. He was allowed to remain in his lands. However, six months later he was murdered by his vizier [[Pir Ali Taz]] in 1407.<ref name="Jackson-1120"/>

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| years = 1405-1407
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