Kidwai has an alternative spelling of Qidwai, you will see the two interchanged
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GENEALOGY OF QAZI MOIZ UDDIN :
Available chronicles show that Qazi Qidwa’s lineage (henceforth, this short name, which is more popular, will be used) connects him to Hazrat Adam, and rightly so, since Muslims believe that mankind started its existence on this earth when Adam and his wife were deported from heaven. Thus the available chronicles show the lineage connecting Qazi Qidwa to Hazrat Adam. The accuracy of these Shijras is very difficult to establish. Some of them put Qazi Qidwa in the 54th generation from Hazrat Adam, some at the 57th generation. These Shijras agree with one another until the appearance of Hazrat Yaqub aleh es Salaam, grandson of Hazrat Ibrahim, whose laqab was Israel. Israel is an Arabic word made up of two syllables–’Isra’ and ‘el’. The first syllable refers to the person who travels during the night, and ‘el’ is only a consonant. How this word was coined for Hazrat Yaqub is described in the Bible in Chapter 27 of Genesis and Qasas-ul-Ambia. It has been said that one day Hazrat Ishaq, the father, asked for some food, which was served by one of his sons. Ishaq, being blind in old age, thought that Aes, his elder son, had served the food, and he therefore blessed him by saying, “You will become the next Prophet”. In reality, it was Hazrat Yaqub, the younger son, who served the food and thus received the blessing. Hazrat Aes was distrurbed when he learned of the blessing, since he, being the elder brother, should rightfully have received his father’s blessing. To diffuse the situation, Hazrat Yaqub andhis family left his father’s house and traveled through the night. This act on the part of Hazrat Yaqub gave him the laqab of Israel. Thus, Bani Israel means “a progeny of Hazrat Yaqub” and nothing more, and the notion that all Bani Israelites are Jews is not correct.
The first deviation in the available Shijras takes place when some of them show the lineage of Qazi Qidwa through Hazrat Yaqub’s elder son Yahuda and others through the younger son, Lava. Again, there are two deviations through the two sons of Yahuda, Oman and Farsam. Thus we have three Shijras: one from Lava, one from Farsam and a third from Omar. The two from Lava and Farsam show Alexander the Great at the sixth generation from Hazrat Moosa and carry on through Salim, shown as a son of Alexander. This seems to be incorrect; it is known that Alexander did not have any progeny, and consequently, his empire was distributed between his generals after his death. There is only one Shijra that is from Hazrat Ibrahim through Hazrat Yaqub, Yahuda and Omar, which probably shows Qazi Qidwa’s lineage correctly. However, w e are still not sure about this because the gap between Prophet Muhammad and Qazi Qidwa is only of six generations, while time period elapsed between the two individuals’ lives is about 6000 years. Therefore, the dynastic lineage through Malik Danishmend Ghazi, who was connected to Saiyed Battal, may be taken as the most likely true genealogy of Qazi Qidwa (See Annexure 11).
[Biographical sketch of Kidwais of Avadh : with special reference to Barabanki families pub. 1989
by Riaz-ur-Rehman Kidwai, out of print]
the truth on 
m.a.kidwai,CME/IND.RLY.(retd.) on 
Asalawalekum,
My name is Asim Kidwai, I belong to Masauli (Barabanki) in India. I had been trying to find some information on Kidwai s and that’s when I stumbled on your blog on Qazi Qidwa, its very interesting information, wanted to ask you if you have any information that Qazi Qidwa was from Turkey, and his immediate family were rulers of an area called Kingdom of Rum.
There is some work being done on the Kidwai’s Shijra’s currently…
I belong to Qazi Family of NWFP & I am searching for exact Family tree of the Qazi Family ,which should start from Qazi Hussain Ahmad of NWFP upto the first memeber (Man) of Qazi family in the wold.Please guide and facilitate me in this regards.
I belong to Qazi Family of NWFP & searching for an exact Family tree of the Qazi Family which should start from Qazi Hussain Ahmad of NWFP upto the first member of Qazi family in the world.Please guide & facilitate me in this regards.Thanks
where are you writing from? there are so many Qazi’s – what additional names can you share, so that we can possibly tell you more.
thanks
Arif Mushtaq Kidwai of Masauli has authored a well researched shijra of
Kidwais . it is in five volumes. its 1st volume has been published
which covers some villages of kidwais in urdu alphabetical order. Arif has
done a tremendous job . He spent almost 20 years in research. I request all
Kidwais to appreciate him for his hard and commendable work.
yes, Arif bhai is doing a detailed shijra.
I ,MOIN AHMAD KIDWAI , CHIEF WORKS MANAGER /INDIAN RAILWAYS (RETD.) BELONG TO VILL. JUGGAUR DISTT. LUCKNOW. HAZRAT QAZI QIDWATUDDIN STARTED HIS JIHAAD DURING AROUND 1200 AD AND DEFEATED THE THEN HINDU RAJA OF JUGGAUR.
HAZRAT QAZI QIDWA WAS A GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADER, ON THE MISSION TO SPREAD
THE MESSAGE OF ISLAM.UNDER HIS SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE LARGE NUMBER OF ORTHODOX HINDUS CONVERTED TO ISLAM IN THE ENTIRE KIDWAI BELT SPREAD FROM
JUGGAUR TO AYODHYA. HE WAS ‘PEER BHAEE’OF HAZRAT KHWAJA MOIN UDDIN CHISHTI OF AJMER.
ORIGIN OF QIDWAI / KIDWAI FAMILIESby Moin Ahmad Kidwai on Monday, April 18, 2011 at 10:12am
IMPORTANCE OF FAMLIES AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE LIGHT OF HOLY QURAN AND HADEESES——–
UNDER’AYA13′ OF ‘SURA 49′ OF HOLY QURAN ALLAH TALA SAYS ‘ MEN WE HAVE CREATED YOU FROM A MALE AND A FEMALE , AND MADE YOU INTO NATIONS AND TRIBES THAT YOU MIGHT GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER . THE NOBLES OF YOU IN ALLAH’S SIGHT IS THE MOST RIGHTEOUS OF YOU . ALLAH IS WISE AND ALL KNOWING .———-’
UNDER AYA 38 OF SURA 30 OF HOLY QURAN ALLAH TALA SAYS ‘ GIVE THEIR DUE TO THE NEAR OF KIN , TO THE NEEDY, AND TO THE WAFARES. THAT IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO SEEK COUTENANACE OF ALLAH; SUCH MEN WILL SURELY PROSPER . ‘————-
THERE IS HADEES TOO REGARDING IMPORTANCE FAMILIES AND RELATION SHIPS, THAT SAYS ‘ KEEP THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR RACES, FROM WHICH RELATIONSHIPS ARE ESTABLISHED, AND BECASE RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE BASIS OF ‘MOHABBAT’ AMONGST THE RELATIVES.’——————-
HADEES NO. 1511, PAGE NO. 701 (‘ MASHARIQUNNOOR’ BY HAZRAT HASAN ZA-AA–EE ) SAYS ‘ TWO HABITS IN MASSES ARE SUCH THAT THEY ARE ‘KUFR’ FOR THEM, NO. ONE, TO FIND SHORTCOMMINGS IN THE ANCESSTORS AND NO. TWO ,TO READ SAD POEMS ON THE DEAD BODY. ‘( THIS HADEES IS FOR THOSE WHO TRY TO POSE THEMSELVES SUPERIOR OVER OTHERS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR ANCESTERIAL LINEAGE.) ———————-
THERE IS ALSO HADEES FOR THOSE WHO ATTACH THE SURNAME OF OTHER FAMILIES WITH THEIR NAMES . THE HADEES SAYS ‘ PROPHET MOHAMMAD (PBUH ) SAID THAT THOSE WHO ATTCH THEIR LINEAGE TO OTHERS THAN THEIR FATHER’S LINEAGE ARE NOT FROM AMONGST US . ( THIS HADEES IS FOR THOSE WHO ATTACH SUR NAME OF OTHER COMMUNITIES i e SIDDEQI, USMANI, FAROOQI, KIDWAI etc. AGAINST THEIR NAMES)———–
THE FAMOUS HINDU PHILOSPER CHNAKYA HAS SAID ON THIS SUBJECT ‘ HAVE THE FEAR OF RELATIVES LIKE THAT OF AN ENEMY BUT DO’T PART YOURSELF FROM THEM, BECASE DURING YOUR BAD TIMES, THEY WILL HELP YOU . ‘———————
THE ORIGIN OF QIDWAIS————————–
THE QIDWAIS/KIDWAIS DRAW THEIR SUR NAME FROM HAZRAT QAZI MAAZUDDIN ALIAS QAZI QIDWATUDDIN ALIAS QAZI QIDWA WHO WAS QAZI OF THE THEN A MUSLIM STATE CALLED ROME ( IN THE THEN TOURKI AND NOW SOMEWHERE IN PHALESTINE/SERIA) AND CAME TO INDIA AROUND THE MIDDLE OF 12TH CENTURY A. D. HE ESTABLISHED HIS ZAMEENDAREE IN THE 52 VILLAGES NOW MOSTLY IN THE DISTT. BARABANKI OF U. P. BY DEFEATING THEIR, THEN HINDU RULERS. THESE HIDU SELF RULED STATES COMRISING OF A VILLAGE OR COMBINATION OF VILLAGES EXHISTED UNDER THE THEN OVERALL MUSLIM RULE OF INDIA FROM DELHI. THIS COMBINATION OF 52 VILLAGES WAS CALLED ‘QIDWARA’ AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS OF QAZI QIDWA BECAME THE ZAMEENDARS OF THESE VILLAGES. SOME ZAMEENDARS OF THESE VILLAGES ALSO SHIFTED TO NEARBY VILLAGES AND TOWNS AND ACQUIRED JAGEERS AND ZAMEENDAREES THERE LATER-ON DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF FORMATION OF QIDWARA .——————————–
DURING THE LAST EIGHT CENTURIES QIIDWAIS FROM THESE VILLAGES HAVE SHIFTED TO THE VARIOUS PLACES ALMOST IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND HAVE EARNED THE NAME AND FAME THERE IN THE VARIOUS SPHERES OF LIFE. SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF QIDWAI FAMILIES FROM QIDWARA VILLAGES ,PARTICULARLY FROM JUGGAUR SHIFTED TO PAKISTAN AFTER THE PARTITION OF INDIA DURING 1947.THE ‘QIDWARA’ STILL EXHISTS , HOWEVER THE ZAMEENDAREE WAS ABOLISHED IN MOST PARTS OF INDIA DURING 1952.———————-
THE QIDWARA———————–
QIDWARA IS THE COMBINATION OF 52 VILLAGES ,THE HINDU RULERS OF WHICH WERE DEFEATED BY QAZI QIDWA DURING THE 12TH CENTURY A. D.. QAZI QIDWA ESTABLISHED HIS ZAMEENDAREE IN THESE VILLAGES.THE JUGGAUR IN DITT. LUCKNOW IS IS THE GATEWAY OF QIDWARA, AS THIS WAS THE 1ST VILLAGE WHERE QAZI QIDWA’S FORCES FOUGHT A FIERCE BATTLE TO DEFEAT THE FORCES OF RAJA UDAI RAJ THE THEN RULER OF JUGGAUR .OTHER IMPORTANT VILLAGES OF QIDWARA WHO ATTAINED THE FAME DUE TO VARIOUS REASONS DURING THE PAST 8 CENTURIES ARE BHANYARA ( IT’S OLD NAME WAS MAHUWAGAON ), BARAGAON, DARYABAD, RASAULI, AYODHYA AND MASAULI.———————-
THE NAMES OF THE VILLAGES THAT THEN COMPRISES QIDWARA ARE AS UNDER———————
1-JUGGAUR—————-
2-MOHAMMADPUR——————
3-TERA———————–
4-RASAULI———————-
5-DEWA———————–
6-DEWKALYA————————-
7-BHITAULI——————-
8-KATWA———————
9-FEROZPUR————————
10-DADRA
11-KOLA
12-SARAIMANDI
13-BANSA
14NEWLA
15-CHUKHANDEE
16-RAHRAMAU
17-NEMATPUR
18-HANSWARA
19-TERA
20-MASAULI
21-BHANYARA
22-BARYA
23-BEHTA
24-MONCHAPUR
25-TIKRA
26-DANDHAMAU
27-AMDAHA
28-BARAULI
29-ANKAHA
30-LAULAEE
31-BAZEDPUR
32-DEWGAON
33-ROTIGAON
34-TIKARIA
35-SURSANDA
36-JEWRI
37-SADAMAU
38-SHEWPUR
39-DAHROLI
40-SAHRI
41-SOWARA
41-BARAGAON
42-SULTANPUR
43-BINDAURA
44-BAHRAUTA
45-MAHMUDABAD
46-MADARPUR
47-KAHTAULI
48-MADHYA
49-CHACHRAWA
50-SHAHPUR
51-SATRIKH
52-RUDAULI
THE QIDWAIS / KIDWAIS.
DURING 18th CENTURY A.D. A LARGE NUMBER OF ZAMEENDARS FROM QAZI QIDWA’S GENERATIONS STARTED WRITING ‘QIDWAI / KIDWAI’ AS SURNAME AGAINST THEIR NAMES. HOWEVER SHAH MOHMMAD MERAK, THE FATHER OF QAZI QIDWA WAS AN ARAB SHEIKH AS DETAILED IN THE BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF QAZI QIDWA HERE-UNDER AND AS SUCH ALL QIDWAIS / KIDWAIS AND OTHERS WHO DO NOT WRITE QIDWAI/KIDWAI AGAINST THEIR NAMES BUT ARE REAL GENERATIONS OF QAZI QIDWA ARE SHEIKHS.
HOWEVER OF LATE SOME OF THE GENERATIONS OF THE SOLDIERS, SLAVE SOLDIERS, COMPANIONS AND OTHERS WHO ACCOMPANIED QAZI QIDWA DURING HIS JOURNEY TO INDIA AND SETTLED IN QIDWARA VILLAGES ALONG WITH QIDWAI/KIDWAI ZAMEENDARS HAVE ALSO STARTED WRITING QIDWAI/KIDWAI AGAINST THEIR NAMES. ( THESE PEOPLES WERE MOSTLY APPOINTED BY QIDWAI/KIDWAI ZAMEENDARS TO LOOK AFTER THE VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE GOVERNANCE OF THEIR ZAMEENDAREES AS ALSO THEIR HOUSE HOLD WORKS AFTER THE FORMATION OF QIDWARA AND ESTABLISHMENT OF IT’S ZAMEENDAREES.)
THE GENERATIONS OF SOME OTHER PEOPLES OF QIDWARA VILLAGES WHO ADOPTED ISLAM UNDER INFLUENCE OF QAZI QIDWA AND HIS GENERATIONS AND BELONGING TO THE VARIOUS LOW CASTE COMMUNITIES OF HINDUS i e NOW, DHOBI, JULAHA,BEHNA,QASAEE,KAHAR, KABARIA,KASGAR,AHIR,PASI KHATIK ETC. ETC. HAVE ALSO STARTED WRITING QIDWAI/KIDWAI AGAINST THEIR NAMES.
AFTER THE UPRISE OF KIDWAIS OF MASAULI AND BARAGAON IN THE INDIAN POLITICS AFTER 1947, SOME PEOPLES IN INDIDA STARTED WRITING KIDWAI TO THEMSELVES.
A VERY BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF QAZI MAAZUDDIN ALIAS QAZI QIDWATUDDIN ALIAS QAZI QIDWA
QAZI MAAZUDDIN ALIAS QAZI QIDWATUDDIN ALIAS QAZI QIDWA WHO MIGRATED TO INDIA FROM AN SMALL STATE THEN KNOWN AS ROME CONSISTNG CITIES LIKE SEWAS, MALTA AND LAZUK IN THE THEN TOURKI ( NOW SOMEWHERE IN PHALASTINE/SERIA ).
ALTHOUGH A LARGE NUMBER OF BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE IN ARABIC,PERSIAN,URDU AND ENGLISH ON QAZI QIDWA, THIS NOTE, BELOW ABOUT QAZI SAHEB IS BASED ON THE COMMON VIEWS TAKEN BY VARIOU AUTHORS IN THEIR BOOKS ABOUT THE VARIOUS AUSPECTS OF QAZI SAHEB’S LIFE. THIS NOTE IS ALSO BRIEFEST OF THE BRIEF DESCRIPTION ABOUT QAZI SAHEB.
QAZI QIDWA’S FATHER, SHAH MOHAMMAD MERAK WHO WAS AN SPRITUAL LEADER AND GREAT PREACHER OF ISLAM CAME TO ROME ( ROME WAS THEN A SMALL STATE IN THE THEN TOURKI AND NOW SOMEWHERE IN PHALASTINE/SERIA AND WAS RULED BY A JEW RULER) FROM MADINA (MUNAWWARA) DURING THE YEAR1120 A. D.TO PREACH ISLAM. SHAH MOHAMMAD MERAK HAD ANCESTERIAL LINEAGE WITH HAZRAT YAHUDA S/O PROPHET YAQUB(PBUH). UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE RELIGIOUS AND SPRITUAL KNOWLEDGE AND INTELEGENCE OF SHAH MOHD. MERAK THE THEN EMPEROR OF ROME WHO WAS JEW AND HAD ANCESTERIAL LINEAGE WITH PROPHET MUSA (PBUH) ADOPTED ISLAM AND MARRIED HIS ONLY DAUGHTER TO SHAH MOHD. MERAK.
SHAH MOHD MERAK BECAME THE KING OF ROME. AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAW.
QAZI QIDWA WAS BORN DURING THE YEAR 1135 A. D. IN THE ROYAL PALACE OF ROME. HE BECAME THE DISCIPLE OF HAZRAT KHWAJA USMAN HAOONI, TO ACQIRE RELIGIOUS AND SPRITUAL KNOWLEDGE AND INTELEGENCE, INCIDENTLY THE FAMOUS SUFI SAINT HAZRAT KHWAJA MOIN UDDIN CHISHTI OF AJMER WAS ALSO THE DICIPLE OF HAZRAT KHWAJA USMAN HAROONI. BOTH OF THEM HAD DONE BAIT WITH KHWAJA USMAN HAROONI AND WERE AWARDED KHILAFAT BY HIM. LIKE HIS FATHER QAZI QIDWA FULLY ENGAGED HIMSELF IN PREACHING OF ISLAM. THE TITLE ‘QIDWA’ WHICH IN ARABIC MEANS GUIDE OF THE PATH (RAH DIKHANEWALA) WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS PEER HAZRAT KHWAJA USMAN HARRONI. QAZI QIDWA ACHIEVED A LOT OF FAME AND RESPECT FOR HIS KNOWLEDGE , SPRITUALITY AND RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD.
AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, AS PER TRADITION IN THE THEN ROME ,HE BECAME THE QAZI OF THE STATE AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, NUSRATUDDIN BECAME EMPEROR OF THE STATE. QAZI OF THE STATE BESIDES BEING SUPREME JUDGE OF THE STATE HAD ALSO A FINAL WORD IN THE MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE INTERPRETATION OF SHARIAT LAWS AND THEIR IMPLIMENTATION AND IN ISLAMICALY RULED STATES QAZI OF THE STATE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE HIGHER IN STATUS THAN THE EMPEROR .
IN A CASE PERTAINING TO RULING OF STATE AS PER SHARIAT LAWS, DIFFERECE CROPPED UP BETWEEN HIM AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER ,NUSRATUDDIN ,QAZI QIDWA THEREFORE DECIDED TO LEAVE THE STATE OF ROME. DURING THE YEAR 1167 HE LEFT ROME WITH HIS WIFE BIBI SALEHA, SON AZUDDIN AND A CONTINGENT OF 500 ROMAN SOLDIERS, NUMBER OF SLAVES(GHULAM), RELATIVES, FRIENDS, BODY GUARDS, ADMIRERS AND FOLLOWERS.THE NAMES OF THE TEN MOST TRUSTED SLAVE SOLDIERS THAT WERE AROUND QAZI SAHEB DURING JOURNEY ARE AS UNDER
1) FARRUKH
2) SOHRAB
3) FAHEEM
4) AFREED
5) HAMEER
6) ASKAR
7) SHAIDA
9) SAIDU
10) ARDSHER
HE CAME TO INDIA VIA BASRA AND IRAQ, (WHEREFROM SOME SPRITUAL LEADER ACCOMPNIED HIM ). DURING HIS JOURNEY TO INDIA HE ALSO PASSED THROUGH MUSHID, ASFAHAN, KHARASAN, BADAKHSHSN, MADARUNNAHAR,SAMAQAND AND BAKHRA. WHERE-EVER-FROM HE PASSED, HE WAS ACCODED A WARM WELCOME BY HIS FOLLOWERS, ADMIRERS AND SPRITUAL LEADERS AND SOME OF THEM ACCOMPNIED HIM TOO. SOME NOTED SPRITUAL LEADRES THAT ACCMPANIIED HIM INCLUDED
1) KHWAJA EHRAR
2) KHWAJA MAWDOOD
3) KHWAJA ABDUL AZIZ
4) KHWAJA ABDURRAHMAN
5) KHWAJA KAMAL
IN INDIA HE WAS ACCORDED A ROYAL WECOME BY EMPEROR SULTAN SHAHABUDDIN MOHAMMAD GHAURI OF DELHI ( WHO ALSO HAD DONE BAIT WITH KHWAJA USMAN HARRONI ) AT THE OUT-SKIRT OF DELHI. THIS WAS THE SAME TIME WHEN HAZRAT KHWAJA MOINUDDIN CHISHTI WAS IN AJMER AND UNDER HIS INFLUENCE A LARGE NUMBER OF HINDUS HAD CONVERTED TO ISLAM AND ANOTHER BIG LOT OF HINDUS WAS HIS ADMIRERS.( SULTAN SHAHABUDDIN MOHD. GHAURI WAS ALSO A GREAT ADMIRER OF KHWAJA SAHEB ) .
SULTAN SHAHABUDDIN MOHD. GHAURI OF DELHI ACCORDED ALL THE ROYAL HONOURS AND PROTOCOLS TO HIM AND GAVE THE PROVINCE OF AWADH (NOW AYODHYA AND INCLUDED LUCKNOW AND MOST PARTS OF EAST U. P. THE SUBAE AWADH WAS THEN UNDER THE RULE OF SULTAN MOHD. GHAURI OF DELHI, ALTHOUGH SOME SMALL SELF RULED HINDU STATES WHO’S TERRITORIAL BOUNDRIES WERE CONFINED TO FEW VILLAGES ONLY STILL EXHISTED IN IT..) TO HIM.
QAZI SAHEB APPOINTED HIS SLAVE SOLDIERS HAMEER AND ARDSHEER TO LOOK AFTER THE GOVERNANACE OF LUCKNOW AND FARRUKH AND FAHEEM TO LOOK AFTER THE GOVERNANACE OF AYODHYA.
HE STAYED AS ROYAL GUEST OF SULTAN SHSHABUDDIN MOHD. GHAURI AND SULTAN PROPOSED TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER TO QAZI QIDWA’S SON QAZI MAZUDDIN. QAZI SAHEB HOWEVER CALLED FOR THE SHIJRAS OF ALL THE THEN NOTEABLE NOBLES OF DELHI FROM HIS HOME STATE OF ROME AND AFTER RECIEPT OF THE SAME PREFERED TO MARRY THE DAGHTER OF QAZI SAYYAD FAKHRULISLAM QAZIULQAZAT OF DELHI.
SULTAN SHAHABUDDIN MOHD GHAURI PROPOSED TO QAZIULQAZAT SAYYAD FAKHRULISLAM FOR THE MARRIAGE OF HIS DAUGHTER TO QAZI MAZUDDIN SON OF QAZI QIDWA. AND THUS QAZI MAZUDDIN WAS MARRIED IN THE ROYAL PALACE OF DELHI WITH AJZA D/O QAZI SAYYAD FAKHRULISLAM QAZIULQAZAT OF DELHI.
A SON WAS BORN TO QAZI MAZUDDIN’S WIFE AND QAZI QIDWA NAMED HIM AS BABA SHAHABUDDIN DUE TO HIS CLOSENESS OF RELATIONS WITH SULTAN SHAHABUDDIN MOHD. GHAURI. WHEN BABA SHAHABUDDIN ATTAINED THE AGE OF 11 YEARS , SULTAN SHAHABUDDIN MOHD GHAURI ATTAINED MARTYRDOM IN A WAR AND SULTAN ALTAMASH BECAME THE EMPEROR OF DELHI DURING THE YEAR 1210.
SULTAN ALTAMASH ALSO MAINTAINED ALL THE ROYAL HONOURS ,STATUS AND PROCOLS OF QAZI QIDWA.
QAZI QIDWA NOW DECIDED TO VISIT HIS STATE THE SUBAE AWADH ( AYODHYA)
HE THEREFORE STARTED FOR AYODHYA AROUND THE YEARS 1212-1215. DURING THE COURSE OF HIS JOURNEY, AT THE OUT-SKIRTOF LUCKNOW HE WAS ACCORDED A WARM WELCOME BY FARRUKH AND FAHEEM ,HIS SLAVE SOLDIERS WHO WERE LOOKING AFTER THE GOVERNANACE OF LUCKNOW, WITH A LARGE CONTINGENTGENT OF ARMY . HE STAYED AT LUCKNOW FOR FEW DAYS AND THEN PROCEDED FOR AYODHYA. WHEN HIS CONTINGENT REACHED NEAR JAGDEOPUR (NOW JUGGAUR ) ONE OF THE SOLDIERS FROM HIS CONTINGENT WENT INSIDE THE VILLAAGE FOR SOME URGENT NEED, THE SOLDIER WAS LOOTED AND KILLED BY THE PEOPLES OF RAJA UDAIRAJ WHO WAS THEN RULER OF JUGGAUR ( THE THEN VILLAGE JUGGAUR IN FACT DREW IT’S NAME FROM IT’S EARST-WHILE RULER RAJA JAGDEO JOGI , AND UDAI RAJ APPEARS TO BE FROM AMONGST HIS GENERATIONS ) AND LIVED THERE.
THE MESSAGE OF KILLING OF THE SOLDIER REACHED TO QAZI SAHEB AND HE PUT FARRUKH AND FAHEEM TO DEAL WITH UDAIRAJ. A FIERCE BATTLE TOOK PLACE AT THE OUT-SKIRT OF JUGGAUR AT THE PLACE NOW KNOWN AS SALARGUNJ . RAJA UDAIRAJ ALONG WITH HIS FAMILY AND PEOPLE WAS KILLED, SOME OF THE PEOPLES OF QAZI SAHEB AND MUSLIM SOLDIERS ALSO ATTAINED MARTYRDOM THEY (THE MUSLIMS) WERE BURRIED IN ‘MUNNI BHTYARIN KI BAGH’ , NEAR SOHANIA LOCALITY OF JUGGAUR. THERE STILL EXHIST SOME PUCCA GRAVE OF MARTYRES, ALTHOUGH KACHCHA GRAVES HAVE DECAYED WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME. THE ‘MUNNIBHATYRAN KI BAGH’ IS A BIG PIECE OF LAND HAVING THESE GRAVES AND LARGE NUMBER OF MANGO AND OTHER TREES.
A BIG MOSQU WITH GRAVES OF MARTYRES ALSO EXHIST IN SOHANIA. YEARLY URS, QUL AND QAWWALIS ARE ORGANISED ON THESE GRAVES BY DEVOTEES AND ADMIRERS.FIVE TIME PRAYERS AND TARAWEE DURING RAMAZAN IS ALSO HELD IN THE MOSQU. IT IS UNDER-STOOD THAT QAZI SALAR AHMAD TURKTAZ WHO WAS FOURTH GENERATION KIN OF QAZI QIDWA AND TOOK OVER THE CHARGE OF ZAMEENDAREES OF QIDWARA VILLAGES, BUILT THE MOSQU AND PUCCA GRAVES OF HIS ANCESTORS WHO HAD ATTAINED THE MARTYRDOM DURING THE BATTLE OF JUGGAUR. THE PLACE SALARGUNJ WHERE NOW’ MUNNI BHATYARAN ‘ KI BAGH AND SOME HOUSES OF THE VILLAGERS EXHIST DRAWS IT’S NAME FROM HIM.THIS PLACE HAS HERITAGERIAL IMPORTANCE FOR ALL THE KIDWAIS .
THE STORY OF JAGDEOPUR( JUGGAUR ) WAS NARRATED TO SULTAN OF DELHI IN HIS DARBAR AND HE ORDERED THAT, THAT VILLAGE BE GIVEN TO THE SONS OF QAZI QIDWA. QAZI SAHEB ESTABLISHED HIS ZAMEENDARI IN JUGGAUR. THUS JUGGAUR BECAME THE FOUNDATION STONE AND GATE-WAY OF THE GREATER ‘ QIDWARA’ OF THE ZAMEENDAREES OF 52 VILLAGES THAT WAS LATER-ON ESTABLISHED BY QAZI QIDWA BY DEFEATING THE RESISTIVE HINDU RULERS OF THESE VILLAGES WHO WERE RULING THEM IN VARIOUS MULTIPLE COMBINATIONS.
FROM JUGGAUR QAZI QIDWA’S CONTINGENT PROCEEDED TOWARDS BARSOLI (NOW RASAULI ) WHERE HE WAS CONFRONTED BY UDAI BHAN , ARJUN AND JAGDEO WHO WERE THE BROTHERS OF RAJA GANESH AND SURAH BHAN, THE RULERS OF KARSANDA (NOW SURSANDA ) , BEHTA AND DADRA. THEY HAD HEARED ABOUT THE DEFEAT OF RAJA UDAI RAJ OF JUGGAUR AND WANTED TO AVENGE IT. THESE MEN WITH A LARGE FLEET OF ARMED FORCES ALARMED QAZI QAHEB’ CONTINGENT IN THE SRPRISE LATE NIGHT ATTACK .QAZI SAHEB’S FORCES FOUGHT BACK THE BATTLE WHICH LASTED FOR ABOUT A MONTH , AFTER WHICH QAZI SAHEB’S FORCES KILLED ALL OF THEM ALONG WITH THEIR ARMY. A BIG NO. OF QAZI SAHEB’S MEN ALSO ATTAINED MARTYRDOM.
AFTER CONCURING RASAULI, BEHTA, SURSANDA AND DADARA AND ESTABLISHING HIS ZAMEENDAREE THERE ,QAZI SAHEB PUT FARRUKH AHD FAHEEM, HIS SLAVE SOLDIERS WITH A CONTINGENT OF 507 SOLDIERS ON THEIR CONTROLL. QAZI SAHEB NOW PROCEEDED TOWARDS AYODHYA DEFEATING THE RESISTIVE SMALL TIME RULERS OF THE WAY . HE REACHED AYODHYA DURING THE YEAR 1219. QAZI SAHEB LIKED AYODHYA AND DECIDED TO LIVE THERE. HE DIED AT AYODHYA DDURING THE YEAR 1225 AT THE AGE OF 90 YEARS AND WAS BURRIED IN THE GRAVE YARD IN THE LOCALITY THEN KNOWN AS ‘QAZIANA’ AT THE BANKS OF RIVER SARYU. THIS LOCALITY VANISHED DUE TO THE FLOODS IN THE RIVER AFTER SOME TIME AND QAZI SAHEB’S DEAD BODY WAS SHIFTED TO ANOTHER GRAVE YARD AT THE OUT-SKIRT OF BABRI MOSQU. IT IS SAID THAT QAZI SAHEB TOLD TO SOME-ONE FROM HIS GENERATIONS AS ALSO THE THEN NAWAB SADAT ALI IN THEIR DREAMS THAT MY BODY BE SHIFTED ELSWHERE OTHERWISE IT WILL FLOW OFF WITH THE RIVER.
ACCAORDINGLY THE SHIFTING OF HIS DEAD BODY WAS ARRANGEDN. WHEN THE GRAVE WAS DUG FOR THIS PURPOSE, HIS DEAD BODY WAS FOUND FRESH AND WRAPED IN A CLEAN COFFIN WITH PLEASENT SMELS. THE BODY WAS BURRIED IN THE NEW GRAVE IN THE OUTER YARD OF BABRI MASJID AND IS NOW UN-TRACEABLE AFTER THE MARTYRDOM OF BABRI MASJID AND THE DESTRUCTION OF IT’S SURROUNDINGS DURING THE YEAR 1996 AND COMMUNAL RIOTS THAT FOLLOWED THEIR-OF.
QAZI SAHEB HAD MARRIED HIS GRAND SON BABA SHAHABUDDIN TO RAJI JAHAN D/O SAYYAD MOHAMMAD MEER ZAKARIA OF VILLAGE SATRIKH. IN BARABANKI DISTT.
SAYYAD MOHAMMAD MEER ZAKARIA WAS USTAD (TEACHER) OF PRINCESF RAZIA SULTANA D/O EMPEROR ALTAMASH. HIS WIFE MRS MASMAT HAD BREAST FEEDED TO RAZIA SULTANA AND THUS RAJI JAHAN AND RAZIA SULTANA WERE ‘DOODH SHAREEK SISTERS’ (BOTH WERE BREAST FEEDED BY THE WIFE OF SAYYAD MOHAMMAD MEER ZAKARIA ).
AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER ,EMPEROR ALTAMASH, DURING 1236 CENTURY A. D.,RAZIA SULTANA TOOK HIS PLACE AND RULED INDIDA FAR ABOUT EIGHT YEARS. SHE HAD COME TO SATRIKH TO MEET THE FAMILY OF SAYYAD MOHAMMAD MEER ZAKARIA AND HER ‘ DOODH SHAREEK SISTER ‘ RAJI JAHAN WIFE OF BABA SHAHABUDDIN.
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FROM BABA SHAHABUDDIN AND MRS RAJI JAHAN D/O OF SAYYAD MOHAMMAD MEER ZAKARIA OF SATRIKH THREE SONS WERE BORN WHO WERE NAMED AS
1)-QAZI MOHAMMAD MEERAK ALIAS MEERAN SALAR
2)-QAZI ZIAUDDIN ALIAS AHMAD MALIK SALAR
3)-QAZI TAJUDDIN ALIAS SALAR AHMAD TURK TAZ
MOHAMMAD MEERAK ALIAS MEERAN SALAR BECAME THE OWNER OF LARGE JAGEERS IN SOUTH INDIA AND DIED THERE. HIS NEXT GENERATION SETTLED IN SOUTH INDIA.
ZIAUDDIN ALIAS AHMD MALIK SALAR WAS ‘SUBEDAR’ ( PROVINCIAL HEAD) OF BIHAR AND DIED THERE.
QAZI TAJUDDIN ALIAS SALAR AHMAD TURK TAZ WAS MARRIED TO THE DAUGHTER OF SHEIKH ABULFAZAL FARROOQI OF QANNAUJ. HIS SECOND MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE WITH THE D / O FAZLULLAH WHO WAS NEPHEW EMPEROR GHAYASUDDIN BALBAN.
FROM QAZI TAJUDDINALIAS SALAR AHMAD TURK TAZ AND HIS WIFE THREE SONS WERE BORN WHO WERE NAMED AS UNDER
1)-QAZI JALALUDDIN
2)-QAZIJAMALUDDIN
3)-QAZI QAYAMUDDIN
THE ZAMEENDARI OF 52 QIDWARA VILLAGES WAS DISTRIBUTED AMONGST THESE THREE BROTHERS AND THEIR NEXT GENERATIONS BECAME THE ZAMEENDARS OF QIDWARA VILLAGES, A LARGE NUMBER OF WHICH ADOPTED QIDWAI / KIDWAI SURNAME AROUND 18TH CENTURY A.D.
DURING HIS LIFE-TIME QAZI QIDWA ESTABLISHED HIS ZAMEENDAREE IN 52 VILLAGES STARTING FROM JUGGAUR BY DEFEATING THE THEN HINDU RULERS OF THESE VILLAGES. THIS COMBINATION OF VILLAGES WAS NAMED AS ‘QIDWARA’ . HE ALSO ESTABLISHED A CITY NEAR AYODHYA NOW KNOWN AZ FAIZABAD
DURING THE PAST EIGHT DECADES THE ZAMEENDARS OF QIDWARA HAVE RENDERED A REMARKABLE CONTRIBUTION IN THE VARIOUS SPHERES OF LIFE NOT ONLY IN INDIA BUT THROUGH-OUT THE WORLD. THE NAMES OF THE VERY FEW EARLIER SAINTS FROM THIS COMMUNITY WHO HAD INCLINATION TOWARDS SUFISM ARE INDICATED HERE UNDER
1) HAZRAT QARI ABDUL KAREEM QIDWAI OF SURSANDA – KHALIFA HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN AULIA
2) HAZRAT QAZI NIZAMUDDIN QIDWAI – KHALIFA HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN AULIA
3) HAZRAT MAKHDOOM SHEIKH SAAD QIDWAI OF KHAIRABAD – KHALIFA HAZRAT SHAH MEENA
4) HAZRAT MAKHDOOM ABKASH QIDWAI OF DARYABAD AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF DARYABAD
5) QAZI QAWAMUDDIN QIDWAI OF RASAULI – KHALIFA HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN AULIA
6) HAZRAT QAZI HAMIDUDDIN QIDWAI OF MANGALKOI – KHALIFA HAZRAT MAJDWALIF SANI
7) HAZRAT AKHI JAMSHED QIDWAI OF RAHRAMAU SUMRAJGEERI QANAUJI – KHALIFA HAZRAT MAKHDOOM RAHOQTAL
9) HAZRAT SHAHABUDDIN PARKALA ATASH OF BARA GAON – KHALIFA HAZRAT SAYYAD BADEEUDDIN MADAR
10)HAZRAT HAJI SHEIKH QUDRATULLAH QIDWAI OF MASAULI – KHALIFA MAKHDOOM SHEIKH AHMAD S/O MAKHDOOM SHEIKH SAFEE
11) HAZRAT SHEIKH NOORULDHAR QIDWAI OF MASAULI
12) HAZRAT SHEIKH KALE SHAHEED OF MASAULI
13) HAZRAT SHAH AFHAMULLAH QIDWAI – KHALIFA HAZRAT SHAH ABDULLAH OF SAFIPUR
14) HAZRAT SHAH QULHUWALLAH SHAH QIDWAI OF BARABANKI – KHALIFA HAZRAT SHAH BANDAGI SHAH MOHAMMAD KHADIM SAFIPUR
15 )HAZRAT SHAH BADAR ALAM QIDWAI OF SADMAU – KHALIFA HAZRAT SAYYAD ABULQASIM OF BIJNAURI ( LUCKNOW)
BESIDES ABOVE THERE HAD BEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER SUFI SAINTS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS FROM THIS COMMUNITY DURING THE PAST EIGHT DECADES WHO RENDERED COMMENDABLE SERVICE FOR THE RELIGIOUS AMD MORAL UP-LIFTMENT OF THE SOCIETY, THEIR GRAVES ARE LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE QIDWARA REGION. YEARLY URS ARE HELD ON THESE GRAVES DURING WHICH QUL CHADAR CHARHAEE IS CARRIED OUT.
THE QIDWAIS OF BARAGAON AND MASAULI TOOK ACTIVE AND COMMENDABLE PART IN INDIA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE DURING 1947.
THE QIDWAIS OF JUGGAUR WERE ACTIVE DURING THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE OF INDIA DURING 1847.
( moin ahmad kidwai–dated 12th july 2011 )