Haydar Ghazi

During Shah Jalal's expedition towards the Indian subcontinent from Hadhramaut in Yemen, Jalal came across Haydar who joined him in his journey.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} However, it is unknown whereabouts in the Middle East that Haydar is exactly from.{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyinqilab.com/article/91300/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2-%28%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%29-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9F|publisher=Daily Inqilab|last=Siddeeqi|first=K S|date=11 Aug 2017|script-title=bn:হজরত শাহ জালাল (রহ.) সম্পর্কে তথ্য বিভ্রাট|language=bn}}

After Shah Jalal was summoned by the Sultan Shamsuddin Firoz Shah to take part in the Conquest of Sylhet against Raja Gour Govinda, Haydar and the other companions joined him.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Following the death of Sylhet's first wazir, Sikandar Khan Ghazi, Shah Jalal, according to one source, appointed Haydar Ghazi as the second wazir to rule over Sylhet.{{cite wikisource |script-title=bn:শ্রীহট্টের ইতিবৃত্ত - পূর্বাংশ |title=Srihattar Itibritta: Purbangsho |wslink=পাতা:শ্রীহট্টের ইতিবৃত্ত - পূর্বাংশ.pdf/১ |wslanguage=bn |last=Choudhury |first=Achyut Charan |authorlink=Achyut Charan Choudhury |year=1910 |location=Calcutta |publisher=Mustafa Selim |pages=Part 2: 34}} It is unknown how long Haydar's governorship was but historians estimate his term finished some time after the death of Shah Jalal which was in 1346. The next known Wazir of Sylhet was Muqabil Khan who ruled in 1440.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

After his rule in Sylhet, Haydar moved to Sonargaon where he spent the rest of his life.{{cite book|title=Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia|last=Hanif|first=N|publisher=Sarup & Sons|year=2000|chapter=Jalal, Shaikh (d.1357 A.D.)|pages=165–167}} His mazar remains in Sonargaon (in Dhaka Division).{{cite book|title=Muslim Banglar Samajik Itihas|page=66|authorlink=Mohammad Akram Khan|last=Khan|first=Mohammad Akram|year=1956}}{{cite book |script-title=bn:হজরত শাহ জালাল ও সিলেটের ইতিহাস |trans-title=Hazrat Shah Jalal and the History of Sylhet |last=Ali |first=Syed Murtaza |author-link=Syed Murtaza Ali |year=1965 |location=Dhaka |publisher=University Press |language=bn}}

Haydar Ghazi's descendant by the name of Shaikh Ali Sher Bengali wrote a book called Commentary on the excursion of the souls ({{langx|ar|شرح نزهة الأرواح|Sharḥ Nuzhat al-Arwāḥ}}) which contained one of the earliest biographies of Shah Jalal.{{cite book|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh|first=Abdul|last=Karim|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Shah_Jalal_(R)|chapter=Shah Jalal (R)|publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}}{{harvtxt|Ali|1965|p=17}}{{harvtxt|Ali|1965|p=62}} However, Muhammad Mojlum Khan is of the solitary opinion that the biography was written by Haydar Ghazi himself, under his pen name Shaykh Noorul Huda Abul Karamat.{{cite book|title=The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal|authorlink=Muhammad Mojlum Khan|first=Muhammad Mojlum|last=Khan|publisher=Kube Publishing|date=21 October 2013|page=23|chapter=Shah Jalal}} The latter is most likely an error as the book was written in 1571, 2 centuries after the time of Haydar Ghazi. The Sharh written by Ali Sher is a primary source which inspired the later and more well-known - Gulzar-i-Abrar - a collection of Sufi saint biographies written by Muhammad Ghauth Shattari of Mandvi in 1613.

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