Khawaja Syed Bha-u-Deen Naqsaband, the founder of a sufi order. It is one of the important shrines, located amidst a large garden in Srinaga
When the holy relic Moi-e Muqqadas was brought to Kashmir in 1699, it was first kept at this shrine.
HAZRAT KHWAJA BAHA-ud-DIN NAQSHBAND (RA) Hazrat Khwaja Baha-ud-Din bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad Naqshband was born in 718 AH at Qasr-i-Arifan, a village in Bukhara. Later on he shifted to village of Bukhara and spent his life there. Hazrat Khwaja Baha-ud-Din Muhammad Naqshband left this temporal world on Monday night of third Rabi-ul-Awal 791 AH. His age was 73 years. He lies buried in his home town.
He came to Kashmir as well and spent two years in the service of Baba Ali Waali (RA) and after the death of Baba Ali Waali reached Sumbal to get benefitted from Shaikh Ilahi Bakhsh Sumbali. After completion of his travels, the soul of Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar got manifest to him, who educated him in the tariqa Naqshbandiya and after its completion he went back to Mavra-un-Nahar and reached in the service of Khwajagi Khwaja Muhammad Amkingi, who gave a special attention to him in seclusion for three days and three nights and sent him to India for propagating Naqsbandi order there.
When the holy relic Moi-e Muqqadas was brought to Kashmir in 1699, it was first kept at this shrine.
HAZRAT KHWAJA BAHA-ud-DIN NAQSHBAND (RA) Hazrat Khwaja Baha-ud-Din bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad Naqshband was born in 718 AH at Qasr-i-Arifan, a village in Bukhara. Later on he shifted to village of Bukhara and spent his life there. Hazrat Khwaja Baha-ud-Din Muhammad Naqshband left this temporal world on Monday night of third Rabi-ul-Awal 791 AH. His age was 73 years. He lies buried in his home town.
He came to Kashmir as well and spent two years in the service of Baba Ali Waali (RA) and after the death of Baba Ali Waali reached Sumbal to get benefitted from Shaikh Ilahi Bakhsh Sumbali. After completion of his travels, the soul of Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar got manifest to him, who educated him in the tariqa Naqshbandiya and after its completion he went back to Mavra-un-Nahar and reached in the service of Khwajagi Khwaja Muhammad Amkingi, who gave a special attention to him in seclusion for three days and three nights and sent him to India for propagating Naqsbandi order there.
The area in which this shrine is built was called Sikander-pore because it was built by Sultan Sikandar (1389-1413). According to Tareekh-e-Hassan zain -ul- Abdin (Budshah) had built a Shrine for Syed Mohammad Owaisi in Isham, Kashmir. Owaisi died in 1484 and that shrine was more or less abandoned. In 1633 Khawja Khawand Mahmood obtained a fatwa to demolish the old shrine and used the same material to build the present Naqahband shrine, in what at that time would have been Chaks old garden. Because of Khawja Khawand Mahmood’s name the neighborhood is still called Khwaja Bazzar. After Khawja Khawand Mahmood’s death in 1640 in Lahore, his son Khawaja Moin-Ud-Din Naqashbandi came to Kashmir to look after the shrine.