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baz, and Khwaja Nizamu-d- Din Auliya were contemporaries. Bahau- 
d-Din Zakariya lived between 578 and 666 H. It is, therefore, likely 
that the Shahzadpur Makhdum Sahib, too, was one of their contempo¬ 
raries— : if the tradition is to be believed—and came to, and settled in, 
Bengal in the sixth century of the Hijrl—about the time of Muhammad 
Bakhfyar Khilji’s conquest of Lakhnautl in 600 H. = 1203 A.D. He 
might have come in the 8th century Hijrl, when Shah Jalaluddin’s 
grandson was living at Multan. 
It is a significant fact that most of the saints of the time, who 
came to India, were from the Empire of Bokhara, that is, Turkistan or 
Central Asia, and were originally Arabs and entitled “ Khwaja.” It is 
more striking that, because one of the forefathers of Khwaja Farldu-d- 
Dln Ganj-i-Shakar was a Prince of Kabul, all his descendants, for 
many generations, used to be called either Shahzada or Shah. 
I am, therefore, led to suppose that the Makhdum Sahib too was 
from Central Asia, closely related to some of the Khwajas of the time, 
and that he too was by descent an Arab of the family of Mu'agz-ibn- 
Jabal. His settling at Yusufshahi may be said to synchronise with the 
conquest of Bengal by the Khilji General, Muhammad Bakhtyar. 
