Mirza Hadi Baig

Mirza Hadi Baig
Qazi of Islamic State of Qadian
Reign 1530
Successor Mirza Faiz Muhammad
Born Samarkand, Greater Khorasan (present-day Uzbekistan)
Died Qadian, India
House Timurid
Religion Islam

Mirza Hadi Beig was an Indian nobleman of Mughal descent.[1] He was given the title of Mirza. He was a great ancestor of Mirza Ghulam Murtaza and his son Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.[2][3]

Life and Reign

He came to India from Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan)[4][5] during the reign of the Mughal king Babur. He was a descendant of the Mughal Barlas tribe, a Turkic tribe of partial Mongolian descent.[6] He settled in Punjab near Beas and established a state of 80 villages one of which he named as Islampur.[7] The imperial court of Babur had given the village to Mirza Hadi Baig as part of a large tract of land.[8] As Mirza Hadi Baig was granted legal jurisdiction over the area as a local qadi (islamic magistrate), the village became known as Islampur Qadi.[9] The name of the village evolved into various forms based on cognates, until "Islampur" was dropped altogether, and it simply came to be known as Qadian; the name under which its still known as of today.[10] Mirza Hadi Baig lived and died in his own town. His family had held important posts in the Mughal Empire. He was a Mughal and had family relations with Babur.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Adil Hussain Khan. "From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia" Indiana University Press, 6 apr. 2015 ISBN 978-0253015297 p 21
  2. ↑ "A Book of Religious Knowledge". Al Islam. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Shahid, Dost Mohammad (2007) [2000]. Taareekhe–Ahmadiyyat (Tareekh E Ahmadiyyat) [History of Ahmadiyyat] (PDF) (in Urdu) 1. India: Nazarat Nashro Ishaat Qadian. ISBN 81-7912-121-6. ISBN incorrectly printed in the book as 181-7912-121-6. Complete PDF: 19 Volumes (11,600 pages) (541.0 M). (Volume 14 meta-data appeared to closely match the original reference, but is unverified as the correct volume).
  4. ↑ "Faith and Thought" Vol. 37. The Victoria Institute, Great Britain. (original from the University of Michigan) p 242
  5. ↑ Adil Hussain Khan. "From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia" Indiana University Press, 6 apr. 2015 ISBN 978-0253015297 p 21
  6. ↑ Adil Hussain Khan. "From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia" Indiana University Press, 6 apr. 2015 ISBN 978-0253015297 p 21
  7. ↑ Adil Hussain Khan. "From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia" Indiana University Press, 6 apr. 2015 ISBN 978-0253015297 p 22
  8. ↑ Adil Hussain Khan. "From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia" Indiana University Press, 6 apr. 2015 ISBN 978-0253015297 p 22
  9. ↑ Adil Hussain Khan. "From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia" Indiana University Press, 6 apr. 2015 ISBN 978-0253015297 p 22
  10. ↑ Adil Hussain Khan. "From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia" Indiana University Press, 6 apr. 2015 ISBN 978-0253015297 p 22
  11. ↑ http://www.apnaorg.com/books/punjab-chiefs/ The Panjab Chiefs by Sir Lepel Griffin (1865 ed.)
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