Banuri or Banoori is a Pakistani surname, common among the Pashto and Hindko -speaking Syeds of Kohat , Peshawar and Swat especially in Odigram regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
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People named Banuri are said to be a clan of descendants of intellectual Sufi Sheikh of the Naqshbandiya order, Sayyid Adam Banuri.[1] The name Banuri originates from the Sheikh who migrated from Baghdad to settle in the Indian village of Banur to spread the message of Islam. Banur is a small town about 25 km from Chandigarh, the capital of Indian Punjab, on the Chandigarh-Patiala National Highway, NH 64. The lineage of Syed Adam Banoori can be traced up to Ali.
The ancestors of Sheikh Adam Banuri were from Roh; on his father's side he was Sayed on his mother's side an Afghan. As one of his ancestor had settled in Banur, near Sirhind, the family came to be known by that name. Sheikh Adam Banuri was initiated into Naqshbandiyya order by Hajji Khizr Khan Afghan, a disciple of the Mujaddid Alf Saani (R.A). Later, when he could guide Sheikh Adam Banuri no further, his Pir suggested that he be trained under the Mujaddid. Confident in what he believed to be his own extensive spiritual achievements, Sheikh Adam was shocked to be told he had not reached even a preliminary stage of Sufism. Sheikh Adam Banuri started training with the Mujaddid and soon realized that he was the only Pir who could carry him further mystically. His progress, was rapid and he and he was only three days appointed a Khalifa by the Mujaddid and commissioned to work at Banur.
in 1035/1625-26, Sheikh Adam Banuri wrote a book on the teaching of the Mujadddid and the Naqshbandiyya entitled Kalimatul Ma arif, two of his other works, the Khulasatu Ma arif and the Nikatul Asrar, were among other well-known works on Sufi teachings and on the importance of the Naqshbandiyya order.Sayed Adam Banuri was the first to spread the Mujaddid teachings in the Hijjaz.
A large number of Afghans became his disciples, and Muhammad Amin Badakhshi estimated the number of Afghan became his disciples, and Muhammad Amin Badakhshi estimated the number of his disciples to be 100,000 with 100 Khalifas, so the large was the Sheikh's Afghan following that he became suspect in the eyes of the Mughal officials and nobility. In 1052/1642-43 the Sheikh arrived in Lahore it this Afghan disciples, by this time amounting to the size of a private army. The Mughal Governor was so apprehensive that the Emperor decided to dispatch his Diwan, Sa ad ullah Khan, accompanied by Mullah Abdul Hakim Silyakoti to investigate the situation. The Sheikh Adam Banuri ignored them both. On the Sadullah Khan recommendation, the Mughal Emperor became convinced that the great Afghan following was a potential threat to the Emperor and had the Sheikh and some of his Disciples banished to Mecca.