Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari - Family Lineage

Family Lineage

According to "Mara'at Jalali", written by Syed Khalil Ahmad Bukhari Hassami (1918) and Tareekh Gulzar Shams and "Malfuzul Makhdoom" by Syed Jalaluddin,Sayyid Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari's family lineage is as under:

1. Sayyid Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari
2. Sayyid Ali Al-Moeed
3. Sayyid Ja’far Muhammed Hussain
4. Sayyid Muhammad
5. Sayyid Mahmood (he moved from Mashhad and settled in Bukhara)
6. Sayyid Ahmed (his other son Sayyid Ali is forefather of Nizamuddin Auliya)
7. Sayyid Abdulallah (he moved from Samarra and settled in Mashhad)
8. Sayyid Ali Asghar,
9. Sayyid Ja’far (he died in 271 AH (Hijri) and is buried in Samarra)
10. Imam Ali al-Hadi
11. Imam Muhammad al-Taqi
12. Imam Ali ar-Ridha
13. Imam Musa al-Kadhim
14. Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq
15. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir
16. Imam Zayn al-Abidin
17. Imam Husayn ibn Ali
18. Imam Ali ibn Abi-Talib

There were many religious leaders and sufia saints in his lineage. Among them Hazrat Shah Mohammad Ghouse migrated from Uchch and settled down in the Punjab, Hazrat Shah Jamal of Ichchra, Lahore' and numerous others.

Part of his family moved back to Turkistan and there were inter-marriages with the Tatar Mongol ruling clan of Bukhara. . It is said that he was married to Genghis Khan's daughter as well. A branch of the family moved subsequently to what is now Bursa in Turkey..

One of Syed Jalaluddin Bukhari's descendants, Makhdoom Syed Fateh Muhammad Shah Bukhari al-maroof Ghazi Baba, travelled to Peshawar, and settled down in western suburbs of Peshawar in a village called Wadpagga Sharif. Syed Fateh Muhammad was the 15th descendant of Syed Nasiruddin Mehmood, who was the son of Makhdoom Jahanian. He had six sons, the eldest being Syed Abdul Wahab Shah, while the youngest one was Syed Abdullah Shah. Four of Makhdoom Syed Fateh's sons settled down in Wadpagga Sharif, while the other two moved to nearby areas, where they settled down. Wadpagga Village comprised predominantly of Bukhari Syeds and the Shrine of Ghazi Baba is the site of attraction of millions of his disciples, where they hold an annual Urs. Ghazi Baba is a contemporary of Mian Omar, a saint buried in Chamkani village in Peshawar. Some of the prominent elders of wadpagga village include Syed Rifaqat Ali Shah Bukhari, Syed Ashiq Hussain, Syed Sadaqat Hussain Shah, Pir Syed Qaim Shah Bukhari, Makhdoom Syed Dawood Bukhari and Makhdoom Syed Basharat Ali Shah.