Ancestry

Hazrat Sultan Bahu (RA) is from the progeny of Hazrat Ali (RA) and is a direct descendant of Hazrat Ali (RA). Traditionally according to the law of the land he is Hashimi and belongs to the tribe of A’waan. Historically the A’wan tribe trace their descent to Ameer Shah, son of Qutub Shah whose family lineage is traced back to Hazrat Ali (RA). Hazrat Sultan Bahu’s (RA) family genealogy is traced as follows:

Hazrat Sultan Bahu (RA),

son of Hazrat Bazid Muhammad (RA),

son of Hazrat Fatah Muhammad ,

son of Hazrat Alla-radatta,

son of Hazrat Muhammad Tameem ,

son of Hazrat Muhammad Mannan,

son of Hazrat Mogila,

son of Hazrat Muhammad Peera,

son of Hazrat Muhammad Sughra,

son of Hazrat Muhammad Noor,

son of Hazrat Sulla’a son of Hazrat Muhammad Baharie,

son of Hazrat Muhammad Jayoon,

son of Hazrat Muhammad Hargun,

son of Hazrat Noor Shah,

son of Hazrat Ameer Shah,

son of Hazrat Qutub Shah,

son of Hazrat Emmaan Shah,

son of Hazrat Husein Shah,

son of Hazrat Firoze Shah,

son of Hazrat Mahmud Shah,

son of Hazrat Fartak Shah,

son of Hazrat Nawaab Shah,

son of Hazrat Darrab Shah,

son of Hazrat Awhum Shah,

son of Hazrat Abeeq Shah,

son of Hazrat Ahmed Shah,

son of Hazrat Ameer Zubeir,

son of Hazrat Ali (RA),

son of Hazrat Abu Talib,

son of Hazrat Mutallib,

son of Hazrat Hashim,

son of Hazrat Abdul Munaf.

THE MIGRATION OF THE SAINTS , ANCESTORS FROM MEDINA TO PUNJAB.

The Holy Prophet of Islam (peace be on him) was born in 570 AD. The divine call of Islam came in the first decade of the seventh century. In the early years, the Muslims had to suffer persecutions of the worst type at Mecca. In 622 AD the Muslims migrated to Medina. That was the turning point in the history of Islam. The flight marked the birth of Islam as a temporal power. The Islamic state was established at Medina. The Holy Prophet of Islam (peace be on him) was a statesman, a soldier, an administrator, a thinker, a king a leader, in short the perfect man.

At the death of the Holy prophet (peace be on him) in 632 AD, the influence of Islam extended up to the borders of the Arabian Peninsula. Across the border to the west was the ancient Byzantine Empire and to the east the great Iranian empire. When Islam appeared on the world stage, these empires stood exhausted by mutual wars and conflicts extending over several centuries.

KHULFAI RASHIDIN.—On the death of the Holy Prophet (peace be on him), Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (RA) became the Khalifa. Under his Khilafat the Muslims under the generalship of Khalid bin Walid won an astounding victory against the Byzantine army and the Muslims became the masters of Syria. Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA) died in 634 and was succeeded by Hazrat Umar (RA) as the Khalif. It was under Hazrat Omar that Islam burst across the horizon both to the west and the east. At the battle of Qadisiya in 637 AD the Muslims gained a decisive victory over the Persians.

In 641 AD at the battle of Nihavand, the Persians were completely crushed by the Muslims and Persia once a mighty empire became a province of the Muslims. Within ten years of the Holy Prophets (Peace be on him) death, the Muslims became the masters of all the lands extending from Egypt to Khurasan. Hazrat Omar (RA) was assassinated in 644 AD. He was succeeded by Hazrat Osman (RA) who also fell victim to the knife of an Assassin in 656 AD. Then he was followed by Hazrat Ali (RA) as the fourth Khalifa of Islam. He shifted the capital from Medina to Kufa in Iraq, and here he was assassinated in 661 AD. Out of the four `rightly guided Khaki’s, three were assassinated at the hands of those who professed to be Muslims.

THE Umayyads—On the death of Hazrat Ali (RA), Imam Hasan, the son of Hazrat Ali became the Khalifa. Amir Muawiya (RA) who was related to Hazrat Osman (RA) and belonged to the house of the Omayads, refused to accept Imam Hasan (RA) as the Khalifa and declared himself as the Khalipha. In order to avoid a war, Hazrat Imam Hasan (RA) withdrew as a khalifa and Amir Muawiya became the Khalifa of Islam.

Hazrat Muawiyah (RA) died in 680 Ad and was succeeded by his son Yazid. This was against the pact agreed between Hazrat Imam Hasan and Amir Muawiyah. Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), the brother of Imam Hasan (RA) challenged Yazid. Hazrat Imam Hussein (RA) was betrayed and martyred at the field of Karbala. It was during the corrupt and repressive rule of Yazid and after the martyrdom of Hazrat Hasan (RA) and the martyrdom of Hazrat Husein (RA) at Karbala that the Bani Fatima household (progeny of Hazrat Bibi Fatima (Rad.Anhu) and the other children of Hazrat Ali (Rad.Anhu) from his other wives, were all arrested and exiled to Damascus.

The rest of them who did not accompany Imam Husein (Rad.Anhu) to Karbala lived and spent their time around the precincts of the tomb of the Prophet of Islam (Peace be on him). After some time those exiled to Damascus returned to Medina and some went to Egypt. So it was during the rule of Yazeed that the Prophet’s (Peace be on him) household had to migrate to other lands. The rest of the descendants of Bani Fatima (Rad.Anhu) and Hazrat Ali (Rad.Anhu) who lived in Egypt and nearby lands had to leave for Turkistan and Iran due to the persecution of Hujjaj bin Yusuf Safaqi, a corrupt and tyrannical ruler, under whose rule thousands were killed or massacred.

In Iran the tomb of Hazrat Imam Ali Musa Raza (Rad.Anhu), who was martyred, still stands as a reminder that they had migrated to and lived in the plains of Iran. As time went by the descendeds of Hazrat Ali (Rad.Anhu) migrated and resettled in other lands such as Bukhara and Hamadhan in Turkistan, Baghdad in Iraq – a border between Turkistan and Iran. Some migrated to Khurasan and others to Herat in the mountainous regions of present day Afghanistan.

After the heartbreaking events of Karbala, the descendents of Hazrat Bibi Fatima (Rad.Anhu) passed the rest of their lives in seclusion and solitude in the remembrance of Allah. And the rest of the offspring of Hazrat Ali (Rad.Anhu) from the Aloewi/Hashimi clan, showing off their valor, passed onto Herat and other cities, subduing and overcoming the highlands and mountainous country further south in the Indo-Pak subcontinent.