Hazrat Amir Kulal

 The Shaykhan family claims the descendants of Naqshbandi Sufi saint of Bukhara Shaykh Shams d-Dīn Muhammad Amir Kulal. 

At the beginning of Islamic history the ancestors of Amir Kulal moved from Al Madinah to Shaykhan Ninawa, Iraq where successive generations lived for more than five hundred years. The whole family later moved to Janah, Iran, and then to Bukhara in present-day Uzbekistan.

Subsequent generations of Amir Kulal lived in Bukhara for over a hundred years. Other notable generations included Amir Hamzah Ibn Amir Kulal d800H, better known as Baba Mir, the leading saint of Naqshbandi Sufi with great spiritual protégés; Amir Hasan Zaman Ibn Amir Hamzah d 825H, buried in Sokhar near Bukhara. 

Amir Masud Zaman Ibn Amir Hasan Zaman d 875H, buried in Samarkand and Amir Muhammad Arifullah Ibn Amir Masud Zaman 847-909H, fourth in the line of Amir Kulal, the famous saint of Naqshbandi Sufi and the spiritual adviser of Umar Shaykh Mirza 1456-1494AD, governor of the province of Fergana and father of Zahir. d-Dīn Muhammad Babur 1483-1530AD, founder of the Mughal empire in India.

Emperor Babur, the fifth descendant of Amir Timur and the founder of the Timurid dynasty that ruled in northern India for nearly four centuries, remembered his origins in Central Asia and, following in Timur's footsteps, gave considerable support to Amir Kulal's descendants.

Shaykh Sayyid Zain d-Dīn Ibn Amir Muhammad Arifullah d.940H / 1533AD was a writer, poet, and part of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order. 

He translated the Mughal Emperor Babur monuments into Persian and was the author of the book Tabaqat-e-Baburi. Shaykh Zain d-Dīn was part of the Babur team when he settled in Kabul in 910H / 1504AD and later in 932H / 1525AD on his fifth voyage to Hindustan accompanied him to India.

 In his memoir Babur writes that when he entered Delhi after the conquest of Panipat in 932H / 1526AD against Sultan Ibrahim Lodi he asked Shaykh Zain d-Dīn to lead the Friday prayers and recite the Khutba proclamation on his behalf.

 Decisions by the Emperor declaring victory in the battle of Panipat with Rana Sanga and the Rajput alliance in the battle of Khanua 933H / March 17, 1527AD were made by Shaykh Zain d-Dīn who were copied and sent to the whole empire.

Shaykh Zain d-Dīn was a "Sadr-us-Sudur" who was responsible for the justice and religious affairs of the Mughal Empire and for writing and issuing dictatorships in accordance with the Quran and Sunnah. 

He died in Agra, India and was buried in the yard of Madrasa built by him. Khwaja Sultan Ali Ibn Shaykh Zain ud-Dīn d. 970H was the second Mughal priest and emperor Humayun 1508-1556AD and later became ambassador to Iran during the reign of Emperor Akbar 1556-1605AD. 

Amir Mansoor Khan Ibn Khawaja Sultan Ali d. 982H was a major general in the Mughal army.

He died hunting near Hyderabad Deccan. Shaykh Sayyid Muhammad Adil Khan Ibn Amir Mansoor Khan d. 1019H has served as Mughal army chief in the provinces of Lahore, Multan, Kashmir and Kabul. 

Shaykh Sayyid Abu Saeed Ibn Shaykh Sayyid Mohammad Adil Khan d.1043H was a general in the army of Governor Jahangir 1569-1627AD and later performed important ministerial duties in the court of Jehangir. 

Amir Shaykh Farrukh Zaman Khan Ibn Shaykh Sayyid Abu Saeed d. 1089H rose to the position of Captain of the Mughal Red Fort in Shahjahanabad during the reign of the emperor Shah jahan 1627-1659AD.

 Amir Shah Sajawal Shahmir Ibn Amir Khan d. 1120H eleven of the direct births of Amir Kulal was a Sufi saint of Naqshbandi and a priest of the Mughal dynasty during the reign of Emperor Awrangzeb 1659-1707AD apart from the official administration of the Mughal court.

Amir Shaykh Muhammad Zaman Sikandrabadi Ibn Amir Shah Sajawal was the chief of Sikandrabad Bulandshahr / India. He lived under the rule of Emperor Muhammad Shah 1719-1748AD and was rewarded with an inheritance in Akbarpur, Salarpur near Delhi. 

This was a time when the Mughal Empire was at its lowest ebb. Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdali ousted Delhi and many respected Muslim families were facing severe economic decline and turmoil. 

However, the descendants of Amir Shaykh Muhammad Zaman Sikandrabadi preserved the traditions of the Sufism family and were prominent sadaat Muhammad's descendants of Chehel Amiran later Koocha Chelan in Delhi.

During the recent Mughal era, the family continued to produce distinguished men of learning who distinguished themselves in different walks of life.

 Shaykh Samad Ali ibn Amir Shaykh Mohammad Zaman a graduate and graduate theologian at Rahimiya College Delhi, a center of Islamic Renaissance on the continent under Shah Abdul Aziz Ibn Shah Waliullah 1746-1828 AD.

 Shaykh Mohammad Ali Ibn Shaykh Samad Ali famous of Naqshbandi Sufi is a saint of Sikandarabad Bulandshahr India. Shaykh Karamat Hussain Ibn Shaykh Mohammad Ali d.

 1898AD was Kotwal Police Chief in Gwalior the capital of Gwalior State. Another family elder, Shaykh Nabi Buksh, a clergyman of the Mughal dynasty, was awarded an inheritance near Delhi during the reign of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah 1837-1857.

In the difficult year of 1857 AD when the Independence War began, the family played a key role in the British occupation. Many lost their lives, some fled to Delhi and fled to the small towns / villages of lncholi, Hapur, Danpur, Aounla, Sambhal, Amroha, Badarpur, Malyana and Jalali. 

Shaykh Karamat Hussain and his entire family including his eldest son Shaykh Altaf Hussain d. 1956AD and buried at Bibi Pak Daman Cemetery, Lahore, Pakistan of Bulandshahr. lived in the city of his ancestor Dibai.

 Shaykh Karamat Hussain died in 1898 and was buried in the family cemetery of Gulabi Bagh Dibai. The family lived in Mohalla Shaykhan Dibai and later in Sikandar.