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  "ar": "نظام الدين أولياء",
  "en": "Nizamuddin Awliya",
  "ur": "نظام الدین اولیاء"
 },
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  "ar": "نظام الدين أولياء (1238 – 3 أبريل 1325) شيخ الطريقة الجشتية في دهلي، مريد بابا فريد الدين گنج شكر في أجودهن وخليفته، أقام خانقاهه في غياث بور بدهلي ورفض خدمة سلاطينها، وصار مركزه أبرز مراكز التصوف في الهند.",
  "en": "Nizam al-Din Awliya (1238 - 3 April 1325) was the Chishti master of Delhi, a disciple of Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar at Ajodhan and his successor; he kept his khanqah at Ghiyaspur in Delhi, refused service at the sultans' court, and his centre became the leading centre of Sufism in India.",
  "ur": "نظام الدین اولیاء (1238ء – 3 اپریل 1325ء) دہلی کے سلسلہ چشتیہ کے شیخ تھے، اجودھن میں بابا فرید الدین گنج شکر کے مرید و خلیفہ، دہلی کے غیاث پور میں اپنی خانقاہ قائم کی اور سلاطین کے دربار کی خدمت سے انکار کیا۔"
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  "latest": 1325.2557547382585
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1238",
   "precision": "year",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "The English article gives his birth in 1238 at Badayun (635 AH). The Arabic article gives 633 AH (1235-1236 CE), and the Urdu article's birth section converts his traditional Safar 636 AH birth to 1237, against its own lead's 1238. The English article's year is built and the variants preserved here; 1238 spans 635-636 AH, so no Hijri year is built.",
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   "edtf": "1325-04-03",
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   "status": "historical",
   "hijri": "0725",
   "note": "The English article gives his death on 3 April 1325 at Delhi, as 18 Rabi al-Thani 725 AH; the Arabic article likewise gives 725 AH, so the Hijri year converts cleanly and is built. The Urdu article's lead agrees on 3 April 1325, though one of its passages converts the same Hijri date to 4 March 1324; that conversion is not followed.",
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    "kind": "full",
    "value": "Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ali al-Badaoni al-Bukhari"
   },
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    "value": "Muhammad"
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   {
    "kind": "laqab",
    "value": "Nizam al-Din"
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   {
    "kind": "alternate",
    "value": "Nizamuddin Auliya"
   }
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   "scholar"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1238",
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   "note": "The English article gives his birth in 1238 at Badayun (635 AH). The Arabic article gives 633 AH (1235-1236 CE), and the Urdu article's birth section converts his traditional Safar 636 AH birth to 1237, against its own lead's 1238. The English article's year is built and the variants preserved here; 1238 spans 635-636 AH, so no Hijri year is built.",
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   "edtf": "1325-04-03",
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   "hijri": "0725",
   "note": "The English article gives his death on 3 April 1325 at Delhi, as 18 Rabi al-Thani 725 AH; the Arabic article likewise gives 725 AH, so the Hijri year converts cleanly and is built. The Urdu article's lead agrees on 3 April 1325, though one of its passages converts the same Hijri date to 4 March 1324; that conversion is not followed.",
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    "value": "sufi",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "The English article's lead calls him a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order, names his predecessors in the Chishti chain, and states in its biography that he became a disciple of Baba Farid and was made his successor; the Arabic article's prose likewise calls him a Sufi of the Chishti order, and the Urdu article calls him a famous Sufi of the Chishti silsila who took discipleship and succession from Baba Farid. Two independent texts therefore attest the Chishti order for him himself. The Hanafi jurisprudence and Maturidi creed in the English article's infobox are infobox fields, not prose attestations, and are not followed.",
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   "source": "Built from the English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles and the Wikidata item, all fetched live on 2 November 2026; revision IDs are recorded in the source records.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نظام الدين أولياء (1238 – 3 أبريل 1325) هو شيخ الطريقة الجشتية في دهلي {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ar}. تصفه مقالة ويكيبيديا العربية في متنها بأنه متصوف للطائفة الجشتية {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ar}. وتسميه المقالة الإنجليزية عالمًا مسلمًا سنيًا هنديًا ووليًا صوفيًا من الطريقة الجشتية {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. كان مريد بابا فريد وخليفته {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته",
     "markdown": "يُذكر اسمه الكامل محمد بن أحمد علي البدايوني البخاري، وأسرته من أصل بخاري استقرت في بدايون حيث وُلد سنة 1238 {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. تؤرخ المقالة العربية مولده في بدايون بسنة 633 هـ، وتحسب المقالة الأردية مولده التقليدي في صفر 636 هـ بسنة 1237، خلافًا لمقدمتها التي تعطي 1238؛ وتُحفظ هذه القراءات في السجل {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ar} {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}. توفي أبوه وهو صغير، فرعته أمه في فقر وجاء دهلي للدراسة {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مريد بابا فريد",
     "markdown": "في أجودهن صار مريدًا للولي الصوفي فريد الدين گنج شكر، المعروف ببابا فريد {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. كان يزور أجودهن كل سنة ليقضي رمضان عند شيخه {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. وفي زيارته الثالثة جعله بابا فريد خليفته {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. تخصص المقالة الأردية قسمًا لبيعته وخلافته عن بابا فريد {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "خانقاه دهلي ووفاته",
     "markdown": "استقر في غياث بور بدهلي، حيث اجتذبت خانقاهه الطلاب والزوار من كل طبقة، فيما رفض هو خدمة بلاط السلاطين {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. تسمي المقالة أسلافه في سلسلة الجشتية — فريد الدين گنج شكر وقطب الدين بختيار كاكي ومعين الدين جشتي — أساتذة سلسلة الطريقة الروحية {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. توفي في دهلي في 3 أبريل 1325، الموافق 18 ربيع الثاني 725 هـ {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}."
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Nizam al-Din Awliya (1238 - 3 April 1325) was the Chishti master of Delhi {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. The English article's lead calls him an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. The Arabic article's prose likewise calls him a Sufi of the Chishti order {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ar}. He was a disciple of Baba Farid and his successor {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "His full name is given as Muhammad b. Ahmad Ali al-Badaoni al-Bukhari, his family being of Bukhara origin settled at Badayun, where he was born in 1238 {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. The Arabic article dates his birth at Badayun to 633 AH, and the Urdu article's birth section converts his traditional birth in Safar 636 AH to 1237, against its own lead's 1238; those variants are preserved in the record {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ar} {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}. His father died while he was young, and he was raised in poverty by his mother and came to Delhi to study {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Disciple of Baba Farid",
     "markdown": "At Ajodhan he became a disciple of the Sufi saint Fariduddin Ganjshakar, commonly known as Baba Farid {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. He visited Ajodhan each year to spend Ramadan with his master {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. On his third visit, Baba Farid made him his successor {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. The Urdu article devotes a section to his discipleship and succession under Baba Farid {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Delhi khanqah and death",
     "markdown": "He settled at Ghiyaspur in Delhi, where his khanqah drew students and visitors from every rank while he himself refused service at the sultans' court {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. His predecessors in the Chishti chain — Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki and Moinuddin Chishti — are named in the article as the masters of the order's spiritual chain {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}. He died at Delhi on 3 April 1325, given as 18 Rabi al-Thani 725 AH {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-en}."
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "خواجہ نظام الدین اولیاء (1238ء – 3 اپریل 1325ء) سلسلہ چشتیہ کے معروف صوفی بزرگ تھے {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}. عربی مقالہ انہیں متن میں طریقہ چشتیہ کا صوفی کہتا ہے {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ar}. وہ بابا فرید الدین گنج شکر کے مرید و خلیفہ تھے {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور خلافت",
     "markdown": "ان کا اصل نام سید محمد نظام الدین اور والد کا نام سید احمد بخاری بتایا جاتا ہے، اور ان کی ولادت بدایوں میں ہوئی {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}. بچپن میں والد کا انتقال ہو گیا اور والدہ نے سوت کات کر ان کی پرورش کی؛ پھر وہ دہلی آئے {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}. بیس سال کی عمر میں اجودھن جا کر بابا فرید الدین گنج شکر سے بیعت و خلافت پائی {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}. دہلی کے غیاث پور میں خانقاہ قائم کی اور 3 اپریل 1325ء کو دہلی ہی میں وفات پائی {cite:wikipedia-nizam-al-din-awliya-ur}."
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