Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri

Makhdoom Shaykh Sharfuddin Ahmed Bin Yahya Maneri (1263-1381) popularly known as Makhdoom-e-Jahan or Makhdoom-ul-Mulk Bihar was an Islamic scholar, writer and Sufi saint. He was a follower of Firdausiyya order, an offshoot of Suhrawardiyya order of Sufism and was a spiritual student of Peer Shaykh Najeebuddin Firdausi. He was the great-grandson of Imam Muhammad Taj Faqih Hashmi, who reached India and defeated King of Maner along with Momin Arif, the first Muslim to reach Bihar.

Birth

Shaykh was born in the year 1263 in Maner, a small town near Patna to Shaykh Kamaluddin Yahya Maneri and daughter of Syed Shahabuddin Suhrawardi Peer Jagjot Balkhi, a sufi saint of Suhrawardiyya order and is buried at Kachchi Dargah, Patna.

Education

He left Maner at the only age of 12, to study and to gain knowledge abroad about Islam and Arabic, Persian, Logic and Philosophy. He reached and been under the guidance of Ashraf-Uddin Abu Towama Bukhari, a famous teacher based in Sonargaon (now in Dhaka, Bangladesh). He has been under the guidance of Towama Bukhari for more than 24 years and then came back to the region of Bihar and stayed at Bihar Sharif's most popular place Badi Dargah.

Sufism

After the completion of his studies he went to Delhi to became a disciple of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in sufism.

Personal life

He refused to marry in his life, but he later married Bibi Badaam after falling ill. They had a son Shaykh Zakiuddin, who was born in 1289, who lived and died in Bengal.