Jalaluddin "Surkh-Posh" Bukhari Persian: سید جلال الدین سرخ پوش بخاری, c. 595-690 AH, 1190 - 1295 CE was a Sufi saint and a missionary of the Sufi sect of Hussaini Jalali.
Bukhari was nicknamed Surkh-Posh "dressed in red" because he often wore a red dress.
With official honors, he is also known as Sayyid Jalaluddin; Mir Surkh Bukhari; Shah Mir Surkh-Posh of Bukhara; Pir Jalaluddin Qutub-al-Aqtab; Sayyid Jalal and Sher Shah Sayyid Jalal.Bukhari's life was spent on the journey.
As a Muslim missionary, he converted tribes such as the Soomro, Samma, Chad, Sial, Daher, and Warner. Bukhari was one of the Chaar Yaar not to be confused with the Rashidun.
Chaar Yaar was a group of pioneers of the 13th century Suhrawardiyya and Chisti Sufi movements. Bukhari established the order "Jalali". He converted the Samas, the Sials, the Chadals, the Dahers, and the Waar tribes of Southern Punjab and Sindh.
Some of his mureed followers spread to Gujarat. The hijackers included Bukhari's grandson, Jahaniyan Jahangasht died in 1384 CE and visited Mecca 36 times. Other mureeds include Abu Muhammad Abdullah Burhanuddin Qutb-e-Alam d. 1453 CE and Shah e Alam d. 1475 CE.
In 1134 CE, Sialists of Bukhari settled in what is now Jhang. Bukhari's descendants, Mehboob Elahi Shah Mehboob Elahi Naqvi-ul Bukhari Al-Maroof Shah Jewna also moved to Jhang from Kannauj.
There is a city in Pakistan in the name of Shah Jewna whose descendants still exist in India and Pakistan. Many Bukhari students were buried in Banbhore and Makli Hill near Thatta.
In the year 642 AH, when Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari began his missionary work at Uch Shareef, he was visited by Nasiruddin Mahmud of Delhi Sultanate.
Shah Daulah Shahid, a Muslim saint buried in Bengal. In Bukhara, Bukhari presented Saint Daulah with two gray doves. From Bukhara, Saint Daulah went to Bengal where he fought and was killed by the Hindu king of Shahzadpur.
One of Bukhari's female students was Lalleshwari Lal Ded d. 1400 CE, Bijbehara. He associated with Jahaniyan Jahangasht, a descendant of Bukhari, and was impressed by him. He took her to Kashmir.
Lalla was a teacher of Nuruddin Nurani who was regarded by the Kashmiri, Hindus, and Muslims, as the patron saint of Kashmir.
Per legend, on his way to India, met Chengiz Khan, a Mongol conqueror, and tried to convert him to Islam but failed.
His two male relatives from his second wife, Fatima, daughter of Sayyid Qasim Hussein Bukhari, Sayyid Ali, and Sayyid Jaffar, are buried in Bukhara Cemetery.
He brought his son Sayyid Baha-ul-Halim with him to Sindh and settled in Uchch in 1244.
In 1244 CE c. 640AH, Bukhari moved to Uch, south of Punjab also known as Uch Sharif after the saint's residence, and his son, Baha-ul-Halim, where he established a religious school.
He died about 690 AH 1292 CE and was buried in a small town near Uch. Citation needed After his grave was washed away by the floodwaters of the Ghaggar-Hakra River, the remains of Bukhari were buried in the city of Qattal.
In 1027 AH, Sajjada Nashin Makhdoom Hamid, son of Muhammad Nassir-u-Din, moved the remains of Bukhari to the present site in Uch and erected a building on them. In the 1770s CE, the tomb was rebuilt by the Nawab of Bahawalpur, Bahawal Khan.
The tomb is a short walk from Uch Cemetery. It stands on a plateau overlooking the plains and deserts beyond. On one side of the tomb is a mosque adorned with blue tiles. In front of the tomb is a pool.
A carved wooden door leads to a room containing Bukhari's box. UNESCO describes the site: A brick tomb 18 feet 18 m wide and 24 feet 24 m wide, and its carved wooden pillars support a flat roof and are decorated with polished tiles with floral and geometric designs.
The roof is painted with floral designs and lacquer and the floor is covered with sacred graves and its relatives the inner partition gives ‘purdah’ to his women.
Its mosque has a hall, 60 feet 20 m wide and 11 feet 18 m wide, with 18 wooden pillars supporting the flat roof. It was made of cut and dressed bricks and was further decorated, inside and out, with floral tile tiles and geometric designs.
According to the World Monuments Fund, "The ancient city of Uch was one of the many cities established by Alexander the Great in his religious warfare. In Central Asia in the late 4th century BC."
Mela Uch Sharif is a week-long meal traditional festival held in March - April in Uch. People from southern Punjab come to honor Bukhari's role in spreading Islam. Participants visit Bukhari's grave and hold Friday prayers in the local Muslim mosque built by the Abbasids.
Mela remembers a congregation of Sufi saints associated with Bukhari. It coincides with the month of the Hindu calendar of Chaitra. Bukhari was born on Friday, the fifth day of the twelfth month Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 595 AH in Balkh, Bukhara County, present-day Uzbekistan.
Bukhari was the son of Syed Ali Al-Moeed and grandson of Syed Ja'far Muhammed Hussain. Bukhari's first education was provided by his father.
She was later influenced by Syed Shahjamal Mujarad of Kolhapur State in present-day India. Bukhari's first wife was Syeda Fatima, the daughter of Syed Qasim. Bukhari and Fatima had two children, Ali and Ja’far.
In 635 AH, after Fatima's death, Bukhari and his two sons traveled from Bukhara to Bakkar, Punjab. Both their sons Ali and Ja'far were buried in Bukhara. Jafar's son was Abdullah who was also buried in Bukhara.
Zohra (second wife)
In Bakkar, Bukhari married Bibi Tahirah Zohra, daughter of Syed Badruddin Bhakkari, son of Sayyid Muhammad Makki. Zohra and Bukhari had two sons: Sadruddin Mohammed Ghaus who moved to Punjab and Bahauddin Mohamed Masoom.
Their descendants now live in the surrounding areas of Thatta, Uch Deogarh, and Lahore. Sadruddin's daughter Mohammed Ghaus married Jahaniyan Jahangasht.
Bibi Fatima Habiba Saeeda (third wife)
After Zohra's death, Bukhari married Badruddin Bhakkari's second daughter, Bibi Fatima Habiba Saeeda.
They had a son, Ahmed Kabir, who was the father of Jahaniyan Jahangasht and Makhdoom Syed Sadruddin Shah Kabir Naqvi Al Bukhari father of Shah Jenna.
In the history books, it is said that Sayyid Badruddin's two brothers Sayyid Maah and Sayyid Shams objected to marrying his two daughters to Bukhari and deporting Bukhari to Bakkar.
Bukhari history and family history are quoted extensively in books such as Marat-e-Jalali, Mazher-i-Jalali, Akber-ul-Akhyar, Rauzat-ul-Ahbab, Maraij-ul-Walayat, Manaqabi Qutbi, Siyar-ul-Aqtar, the Siyar-ul-Arifeen, and Manaqib-ul-Asifya.
These manuscripts are owned by Bukhari Sayyids, yet the work Marat-e-Jalali was first published in 1918 was written as a book from Allahabad, India and its second edition with revisions and other research material was published as a book in 1999 from Karachi, Pakistan.
His descendants are named Naqvi al-Bukhari. The part of Uch where the family settled is called "Uch Bukharian".
The genealogy consists of saints and religious leaders. Some moved to Turkestan and married Tatar Mongols.
Some moved to Bursa in Turkey and others to Bilot Sharif, Attock region Raess ul Abdal Dewan Syed Imam Jafar Shah Bukhari-ul-Naqvi is known as Dewan Syed Imam Chakar Shah Bukhari who was nephew and son-in-law.
Sed Saddrudin Bhakkari in the area known as Sukhai Sultan and his eldest son Shah Ateequllah Dewan Bukhari laid the foundations of the village of Kamra Kalaan and his younger son Syed Shah Nazar Dewan Bukhari went to Sialkot district, preaching and converting local tribes to Islam and in the village of Nurkot, etc.
Later some of the descendants went to Wadpagga Sharif, near Peshawar, to preach Islam at the Tribal Areas of Kurram, Orakzai, and Kohat.
Descendants of Jahaniyan and Sikandar Lodi adviser Syed S adarudin Shah Kabi. r Naqvi Al Bukhari. The mosque is commended for its beautiful combination of architectural styles.
There are numerous Bukhari ancestral tombs across Punjab, Sindh, Indian Gujrat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Uttar Pradesh in India.
They include: Jahaniyan Jahangasht d. 1308 CE, Makhdum Jahaniyan Kannauj Tomb, Father Shah Jamal and Meeran Muhammad Shah aka Mauj Darya Bukhari in Lahore, Father Shah Saleem and Shah Nazar in Sialkot District and Rajan Qittal, Sayyed Tomb in Abdullapur Meerut.
Bibi Jawindi (c. 1492 CE), granddaughter of Bukhari and Mir Mohammad Masoom, ancestor of the Bokhari Naqvi family of Dreg, Dera Ghazi Khan and Channan Pir and Wadpagga Sharif in Peshawar.
Others moved to the Firozpur region such as Kabbarwala, Fattanwala, and Fazilka India, and then migrated to Pakistan mainly settling in Dipalpur tehsil and abroad but first migrated from headquarters in Bahawalpur, and Uch in the 1800s with their Sikh friends to Sri Mukstar Sahib in Ferozp.
The eldest son of Hz. Jahaniya Jahangasht Qazi Husamuddin Hasan Bukhari in Allahabad Old Kara Manikpur in Uttar Pradesh India and his descendants are currently found in the Chail known as Naqvi Bukhari Syeds.
Bibi Jawindi's tomb and Jalaluddin Bukhari's tomb and mosque have been on the "designated" list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2004. The World Monuments Fund also promotes conservation.
He also had a son named Syed Ahmad Kabir who moved to Makkah. Kabir's sister, Syeda Haseenah Fatimah, was the mother of Shah Jalal.
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