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The Safi Dynasty

GENEALOGY

Qais Abdur Rashid
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Sorbon
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Kharshbun
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Tareen
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Abdal
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Rajar
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'Isa
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Sulaiman
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Aleko
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Safo
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Safi
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'Abdu'l Wahid Kandahari
(with whom we treat)

'Abdu'l Wahid Kandahari, from a small Safi tribe from the Mohmand area of Afghanistan, who migrated across the border and settled in the Upper Swat valley of the Khush. He d. before 1835, having had issue, a son:

1) Qutb ul-Aqtab, Ghaus-i-Zaman, Shaikh Hafiz 'Abdu'l Ghafur [Saidu Baba]. b. at Jabrai, Shamizai, Upper Swat, 1784, educ. at Madrassas in Pehsawar and elsewhere. A great religious leader who settled at Saidu Sharif, at the foot of Mount Gira, in 1845. Styled Saidu Baba and Akhund of Swat by his followers. Appointed as Sheikh-ul-Islam by the Loya Jirga at Saidu Sharif in 1849. m. a lady from a Sayyidi family of Spal Bandai. He d. at Saidu Sharif, 22^nd January 1877 (bur. there at the Saidu Baba Mausoleum), having had issue, two sons:
- a) Miangul Abdul Hanan [Mashar Sahib]. b. at Saidu Sharif, 1852, educ. privately. Attempted to become Amir after the death of his father, but was unable to gather a sufficient following. m. (first) a lady from the Sayyid family of Bara Bande in Nikpikhel. m. (second) a lady from the Khuswakht dynasty of Chitral. m. (third) a woman from the village of Jambil. He d. 1887, having had issue, two sons and two daughters:
  - i) Miangul Abdul Razak [Sayyid Badshah]. b. at Saidu Sharif, 1880 (s/o the Sayyida), educ. privately. Appointed joint successor to his paternal uncle, 1892. Contested for power with his cousins. He was k. by his cousins, 28^th December 1903, leaving a posthumous son:
    - (1) Miangul …b. 1904. He d. 1905. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
  - ii) Miangul Abdul Wahid [Amir Badshah]. b. at Saidu Sharif, 1884 (s/o the Khuswakht lady). m. two wives, including (a) a lady from a Mian family in Jandul (m. second, 1907, H.H. Miangul Gulshazada Sir Abdul Wadud, Wali of Swat, KBE - see below). m. (b) … (m. second, 1907, Miangul Abdul Manan - see below). He was k. by his cousin, while on a hunting trip, 1907.
  - i) A daughter (d/o the Sayyida). m. (div. 1903) H.H. Miangul Gulshahzada Sir Abdul Wadud, Wali of Swat, KBE (b. 1882; d. 1^st October 1971), eldest son of her uncle, Miangul Abdul Khaliq. She d. shortly after 1903, having had issue, an only daughter - see below.
  - ii) Another daughter (d/o the Sayyida). She d. unm. 1975.
- b) Miangul Abdul Khaliq Khan [Kashar Sahib]. b. at Saidu Sharif, 1858, educ. privately. A religious leader like his father, he eventually established a semi-religious form of government based on sheikhs and religious men, but without an army or administration. m. as his only wife, … (d. 1930), daughter of Shah Muhammad Aman ul-Mulk II, Mehtar of Chitral and Yasin, Master of Ghizr, Ishkoman and Suzerain of Kafiristan. He d. 1892, having had issue, two sons:
  - i) Miangul Gulshahzada Haji Abdul Wadud [Shahzada Badshah Jan], who became H.H. Miangul Gulshahzada Haji Abdul Wadud [Badshah Sahib], Wali of Swat - see below.
    ii) Miangul Abdul Manan [Shahzada Shirin Jan]. b. at Saidu Sharif, 1888, educ. privately. Sipah Salar (C-in-C) 1917-1918. m. (first) a daughter of his uncle, Miangul Abdul Hanan. m. (second) 1907, a widow of his cousin, Miangul Abdul Wahid (she d.s.p. shortly after her marriage). m. (third) a daughter of Jamroz Khan Babuzai. He k. as a prisoner by the Dir forces, after surrendering the fort at Khazana, in Shamozai, September 1918, having had issue, one son and two daughters:
    - (1) Miangul Bahra Mand Khan. b. 1909, educ. Islamia Collegiate Sch., Peshawar. m. (first) a relative. m. (second) a lady from Thama, who had several children but none survived. m. (third) Taj Bar Sultan Bibi, sixth daughter of H.H. Miangul Gulshazada Sir Abdul Wadud, Wali of Swat, KBE, by his third wife. He d. by suicide, 1947, having had issue, three sons and five daughters, including:
      - (a) Major Miangul Bahri Karam (s/o the first wife). m. Bara Bibi, seventh daughter of H.H. Miangul Gulshazada Sir Abdul Wadud, Wali of Swat, KBE, by his second wife. He had issue, three sons and three daughters:
        
        (i) Miangul Jahangir. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
        
        (ii) Miangul Amangir.
        
        (iii) Miangul Alamgir.
        
        Mamoon Rashid (one of the above?). m. Mumtaz Bibi (b. 1952), second daughter of Captain H.H. Miangul F.K. Aurangzeb, Wali of Swat, by his first wife, the daughter of Fath ul-Mulk, Khan Bahadur Hazrat 'Ali, sometime Chief Minister of Swat.
    - (1) A daughter. b. December 1910 (d/o the first wife). m. at Saidu-Sharif, March 1925, Major-General H.H. Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb, Ghazi-i-Millat, Wali of Swat, CIE (b. at Saidu-Sharif, 5^th June 1908; d. 14^th September 1987), eldest son of H.H. Miangul Gulshazada Sir Abdul Wadud, Wali of Swat, KBE, by his second wife. She had issue - see below.
    - (2) A daughter. b. 1917 (d/o the third wife). m. (first) at Swat, 1928, Miangul Shahzada Fazal-i-Qadir Shah-i-Rum (b. 1912; d.s.p. from pneumonia, at Peshawar, 1929), second son of H.H. Miangul Gulshazada Sir Abdul Wadud, Wali of Swat, KBE, by his second wife. m. (second), at Swat, 1943, as his first wife, Miangul Fazal Mabud, Sultan-i-Rum (b. at Saidu-Sharif, September 1927), younger half-brother of her first husband, and third son of H.H. Miangul Gulshazada Sir Abdul Wadud, Wali of Swat, KBE, by his third wife. She had issue, two sons by her second husband - see below.

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