Makhdum Shah

Makhdum Shah Daulah Shahid was a twelfth-century Sufi saint recognized for his preaching of Islam in northern India.[1] He was martyred at Shahjadpur in Sirajganj District, Rajshahi Division in what is now Bangladesh.

Not to be confused with Shah Makhdum Rupos.

Makhdum Shah was a descendant of Sahaba Muaz ibn Jabal, and he was the second son of the king of Yemen at that time.

Together with some twenty companions, he travelled east by the land route through Bukhara and into India preaching Islam. In Bukhara, He met famous Sufi saint Jalaluddin Bukhari and spent some time with him. Bukhari presented Saint Daulah with a pair of gray pigeons.

Eventually they settled in Shahzadpur, at the time part of a Hindu kingdom. The king was displeased with the disruption caused by Makhdum Shah and his followers and ordered them expelled from his kingdom. Makhdum Shah refused to comply and he and nearly all of his followers were killed.

His Pir Murshid is Hazrat Shah Shamsuddin Tabrez (who was also the Murshid of Hazrat Jalaluddin Rumi the author of the famous Musnavi Sharif).

Makhdum Shah is buried in Shahjadpur in Sirajganj District, near the Shahi mosque.

References
  1. Ismail, M (1989). Development of Sufism in Bengal (Doctoral dissertation) (PDF). Aligarh, India: Aligarh Muslim University. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  • Wali, Maclavi Abdul (January 1904) "On the Antiquity and Traditions of Shahzadpur" Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: January to December 1904, Calcutta, p. 2, at https://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN08000086&id=kEAOAAAAIAAJ
  • Haq, Muhammad Enamul (1975) A History of Sufi-ism in Bengal Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dacca;
  • Karim, Abdul (1959) Social History of Muslims in Bengal, down to A.D. 1538 Asiatic Society of Pakistan, Dacca;
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