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Sayyid Ali Tirmizi
Pir Baba
پیر بابا
Pirbaba Mazar.jpg
Buner Mazar of Pir Baba
Religion Islam
Denomination Sunni
Order Chishti Sufi Order
Other names Pir Baba
Personal
Born Ali Tirmizi
Around 908 Hijri, 1502 A.D.
Farghana
Died Around Rajab 991 Hijri, 1583 A.D.
Buner District
Resting place Pacha Killay Buner District
Senior posting
Title Ali Tirmizi
Period in office 900–1000 Hijjri, Mughal emperors Baber & Humayun Period
Religious career
Teacher Sheikh Saalaar Roomi
Disciple(s) Akhund Darweza

Sayyid Ali Tirmizi (Pashto: سيد علي ترمذي), more commonly known as Pir Baba (پير بابا), was a Naqvi Sayyid, and a Sufi who settled in Buner (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) among the Yusufzai Pashtuns. He was probably born in 908 AH (1502 CE), in Fergana (present-day Uzbekistan), of Sayyid descent, died in AH 991 (1583 CE). He was a supporter of the Mughal emperor Babar, and was an opponent of Bayazid Pir Roshan.

It is claimed that Pir Baba was the son of Sayyid Qamar Ali, who was in emperor Babur's army and had come down to Delhi as the governor of the Indian state. His mother was of Uzbek origin. Baba was more inclined towards Islamic studies. Baba supposedly married a sister of Daulat Khan a Yusufzai; a respected Pashtun from Buner.

He had 2 sons, Sayyid Habibullāh Shaah and Sayyid Mustafa Shaah. Anwar Baig Baghi, a descendant of Pir Baba in his 12th generation, made news because "he could read only up to fifth grade but he penned down over 50 books on a variety of topics." Shodago Baba Ji was also one of his descendants. His descendants are also known as Tirmizi Sayyids.

Lineage

Sayyid Ali Tirmizi was a descendant of Muhammad through Sultan Sadaat Sayyid Ali Akbar bin Imam Hasan al-Askari, his family tree lineage:

1. Muhammad

2. Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima Al Zahra

3. Imam Hussain

4. Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin

5. Imam Muhammad al Baqir 

6. Imam Ja'far al-Sâdiq

7. Imam Musa al-Kazim

8. Imam Ali al Reza

9. Imam Muhammad al Taqi

10. Imam Ali al Hadi

11. Sayyid Muhammad Samarkandi

12. Sayyid Mahmud

13. Sayyid Abdulrahim

14. Sayyid Muayyid Amir Ali

15. Sayyid Jalaluddin Ganj ul Alam

16. Sayyid Nasir Khusro

17. Sayyid Husamuddin

18. Sayyid Muhammad

19. Sayyid Umar

20. Sayyid Ja’far

21. Sayyid Usman

22. Sayyid Ishaq

23. Sayyid Muhammad

24. Sayyid Hamid

25. Sayyid Ayyub Abu Turab

26. Sayyid Ahmad Mushtaq

27. Sayyid Ahmad Ali Barraq

28. Sayyid Ahmad Begim

29. Sayyid Muhammad Nur Bakhsh

30. Sayyid Yusuf Nur

31. Sayyid Ahmad Nur

32. Sayyid Qanbar Ali Shah Ferghani

33. Sayyid Ali Tirmizi Pir Baba Buner

34 Sayyid mustaffa shah baba

35. Sayyid mian Abdul Wahab alias Mian Abdal Baba

36 Sayyid Masood baba

37 Sayyid mian per Ashiq baba

38 Sayyid Talab deen baba

39 Sayyid Hazrat ali Shah Alias Mian baba

40 Sayyid Noor ali Shah Alias Speen baba

41 Sayyid Ahmad shah (King of Swat 1875)

42 Sayyid Shad bacha

43 Sayyid Mohammad saeed

44 Sayyid Islah uddin alias Haji Hashmi

Shrine (Mazar)

Baba's grave and shrine is in Pacha Killay village in the mountainous Buner District of present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The shrine was closed by the Taliban temporarily.

Urs Mubarak

The annual Urs or Pilgrimage of Hazrat Pir Baba is celebrated from 24 to 26 Rajab of the Islamic calendar every year in Buner.

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