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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Sahibzada
| name = Zorawar Singh <br> ਜ਼ੋਰਾਵਰ ਸਿੰਘ
| image = Guru Gobind Singh with His Four Sons.jpg
| caption = Zorawar Singh with his father (right) and brothers
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1696|11|28}}<ref name=eos/>
| birth_place = [[Anandpur Sahib|Anandpur]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1705|12|26|1696|11|28}}
| death_place = [[Fatehgarh Sahib]], India
| death_cause = [[Extrajudicial execution]]
| relatives = [[Sahibzada Ajit Singh]]<br>[[Sahibzada Jujhar Singh]]<br>[[Sahibzada Fateh Singh]]
| parents = [[Guru Gobind Singh]], [[Mata Jito]]
}}

'''Sahibzada Zorawar Singh''' ({{lang-pa|ਸਾਹਿਬਜ਼ਾਦਾ ਜ਼ੋਰਾਵਰ ਸਿੰਘ}}, 28 November 1696 – 26 December 1705) <ref name=eos>{{cite web |url=http://www.learnpunjabi.org/eos/index.aspx
|title=ZORAWAR SINGH (1696-1704) |last=Shamsher Singh Ashok |website=Encyclopaedia of Sikhism
|publisher=Punjabi University Patiala |access-date=27 March 2016}}</ref> was the third of [[Guru Gobind Singh]]'s four sons. He and his younger brother, [[Sahibzada Fateh Singh]] are among the most hallowed martyrs in [[Sikhism]].

A combination of [[Mughals]] and hillmen besieged [[Anandpur Sahib]] on the orders of emperor [[Aurangzeb]]. The stock of food in the town ran out. The Mughals promised to leave the Sikhs alone if they would hand over the fortress of [[Anandpur Sahib]]. To this Guru Gobind Singh agreed and left the town with his family and a small band of retainers. They had not gone very far when the Mughals, breaking their promise, came after them. Guru Gobind Singh entrusted his two younger sons, Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh as well as his mother, [[Mata Gujri]], to the care of a cook in his household named Gangu. Gangu brought Mata Gujri and the two Sahibzadas to his native village of Sahedi. Bribed by the Mughals, he turned over the three members of Guru Gobind Singh's family to the ''faujdar'' of Morinda. They were then brought to [[Sirhind]] in the presence of [[Wazir Khan (Sirhind)|Wazir Khan]], the Nawab of Sirhind.

The two sons of Guru Gobind Singh, Zorawar (9 years old) and [[Sahibzada Fateh Singh|Fateh]] (7 years old) were offered safe passage if they became [[Muslims]]. Both refused, and so Wazir Khan sentenced them to death. They were [[Immurement|bricked alive]]. <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5i3FJTOvDXEC&q=bricked |title= The Sikhs by Patwant Singh |date= 2001|isbn= 9780385502061 |last1= Singh |first1= Patwant }}</ref>

After Guru Gobind Singh's death, Madhodas Bairagi, a hermit from [[Nanded]], whom the Guru baptised as Gurbaksh Singh, commonly known as [[Banda Bahadur|Banda Singh Bahadur]], besieged Punjab. After laying waste the cities of Samana and Sandhaura, he moved towards Sirhind and after defeating the Mughal forces, beheaded Wazir Khan. <ref name="hello">{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0T1BAQAAMAAJ&q=a+sanguinary+battle+was+fought+in+the+neighbourhood+of+sirhind|title=History of the Panjab from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Time|author=Syad Muhammad Latif|year=1984|page=274|publisher=Progressive Books}}</ref>

The place where the two children of Guru Gobind Singh were bricked alive is today known as [[Fatehgarh Sahib district|Fatehgarh Sahib]].

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