Sayyid is an honorific title of Hasanids and Husaynids Muslims,recognized as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons,Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali,sons of Muhammad's daughter Fatima and his cousin and son-in-law Ali.
Khawajah Syed Qutbuddin Maudood Chishti was an early day Sufi Saint,a successor to his father and master Abu Yusuf Bin Saamaan,twelfth link in the Sufi silsilah of Chishti Order,and the Master of Shareef Zandani. He was born around 430 Hijri in the city of Chisht. He initially received education from his father. He memorized the Qur'an by age 7 and completed his education when he was 16. His work includes two books,Minhaaj ul Arifeen and Khulaasat ul Shariah. He died in the month of Rajab at the age of 97 in 533 AH. He was buried at Chisht like many of the early Chishtiyya.
Amin ul-Hasanat, better known as the Pir of Manki Sharif,was the son of Pir Abdul Rauf and an Islamic religious leader in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India. After joining the All-India Muslim League in 1945,he was noted for his campaign in the provincial referendum held in early part of 1947,that saw the NWFP become part of Pakistan rather than India. He was popularly known as ''Fateh-e-Referendum''.
Pir Meher Ali Shah,was a Punjabi Sufi scholar and mystic poet from Punjab,British India. Belonging to the Chishti order,he is known as a Hanafi scholar who led the anti-Ahmadiyya movement. He wrote several books,most notably Saif e Chishtiyai,a polemical work criticizing the Ahmadiyya movement of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Allo Mahar is a village and union council of Daska Tehsil,Sialkot District in Punjab,Pakistan. The village is located at 32°23'60N 74°25'0E and lies located 8 km to the west of Daska and 15 km southwest of the district capital –Sialkot. It holds the title of modern village of tehsil Daska. It contains the shrines of many Nakshbandi saints and preachers. It is known as it is the birthplace of prominent Islamic Naqshbandi saint Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri who started the religious lineage (silsila) known as Naqshbandia Mujadadia Aminia.
Faiz-ul Hassan Shah,known by some as Khatib-ul-Islam,was a Pakistani Islamic religious scholar,orator,poet,and writer.
The Naqvis are people found predominantly in Iran,Iraq,and the South Asian countries. They claim descent from the Imam.
Khalid Hasan Shah was an Islamic religious leader and an exponent of modern Naqshbandi Sufism.
Shah Saeed Ahmed Raipuri was a Pakistani Muslim scholar as well as the spiritual heir of Khanqah-e-Rahimia Raipur (India) and a contemporary authority of Shah Waliullah's thought. He was among prominent disciples of Maulana Shah Ilyas Kandhalvi,founder of Tablighi Jamaat and Sheikh-ul-Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariya. Rising above practical politics,on the basis of the thought of Shah Waliullah,Sheikh-ul-Hind Maulana Mahmood-ul-Hasan,Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri,Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi and Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani,he established JTI in 1967. Under his supervision,a journal named "Azm (عزم)" was launched in 1974 which is still being published. In 1987,he established an organization "Tanzeem Fikr-e-Waliullahi" based on the philosophical works of Shah Waliullah. He established "Shah Waliullah Media Foundation" to publish literature based on Waliullahi philosophy. He also established Rahimia Institute of Quranic Sciences,Lahore in 2001. There are currently five other campuses of Rahimia Institute of Quranic Sciences in Karachi,Sukkur,Multan,Rawalpindi and Peshawar. Thousands of youth are associated with the institute through the organization of seminars and other events.
Muhammad Jewan Shah Naqvi was an Islamic saint of Allo Mahar,a village and union council of Daska Tehsil,Sialkot District in Punjab,Pakistan.
Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat is the programmatic name of a Pakistani Barelvi organization and Islamic religious movement in Pakistan aiming to protect the belief in the finality of prophethood of Muhammad based on their concept of Khatam an-Nabiyyin. It was founded by Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi in 1950 with Zafar Ali Khan,Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni,Khwaja Qamar ul Din Sialvi,Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah,Ahmad Saeed Kazmi,Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi,Pir of Manki Sharif Amin ul-Hasanat,Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari,Sardar Ahmad Qadri and Muhammad Hussain Naeemi. Later on the prominent Barelvi leaders Shah Ahmad Noorani,Shaikh ul Quran Allama Ghulam Ali Okarvi,Pir Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui,Muhammad Shafee Okarvi,Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri,Iftikharul Hasan Shah and Khalid Hasan Shah also joined them to oppose the Ahmadiyya Movement.
Pir Syed Iftikhar Ul Hassan Shah,also known as Zahray Shah,was a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan,since August 2018. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018.
Pir Syed Jamaat Ali Shah was a Pakistani author,Islamic scholar and Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi Order. He presided over the All India Sunni Conference and led the Movement for Shaheed Ganj Mosque. He was a contemporary of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi,the founder of Barelvi movement.
Syed Ghulam Naseer-ud-Din Naseer Gillani was a Pakistani poet and Islamic scholar of the Qadiri Chishti Sufi orders. He was the custodian of the Golra Sharif shrine in the Islamabad capital of Pakistan. Naseeruddin Naseer was the great-grandson of Meher Ali Shah of Golra Sharif and the son of Syed Ghulam Moinuddin Gillani. He is the nephew of Syed Shah Abdul Haq Gillani.
Muhammad Amin Shah Sani was a Sufi scholar from Pakistan belonging to the Nahbandi order. He is known as a Hanafi scholar and saint. He received his early Qur'anic education at the Khankah Allo Mahar. The first of his ancestors in Allo Mahar was Muhammad Jewan Shah Naqvi,well known by the pen-name of Shair Sawar Sarkar. He traces his roots to the first Arab Shaikhs descending from Muhammad through the lineage of Husayn.
Syeda Nosheen Iftikhar is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from April 2021 till August 2023. She won the by-elections from constituency NA-75 (Sialkot-IV).
Sayyid Kastir Gul (1573–1653) was an Islamic jurist and Sufi saint who is revered among Afghans and Pakistanis. He is the patriarch of the Kakakhel tribe.
The most well-known treatises and reports, written by the authors of the early period are:
