Shaikh Bahlol Daryai

Shaikh Muhammad Bahlol Daryai, also known as Shah Bahlul Chinioti (d. 1575) was a 16th century Punjabi Sufi saint best known for founding the Bahlol shahi sect of Qadiriyya Sufi order and for being the spiritual teacher of Madhu Lal Hussain, one of the earliest Punjabi poets. His shrine is located near Pindi Bhattian, in Punjab, Pakistan.

Shaikh Bahlol was born in 1515 CE at Tibba Shah Behlol near Lalian into the Sipra Jat clan. His father Tāni (or Tīni) was a farmer. Shaikh Bahlol was a disciple of Shah-i-Latif; after travelling widely throughout Iran, Iraq and Arabia he later settled in his ancestral village near Chiniot, where he taught Madhu Lal Hussain for twelve years. Before his death he made Madhu Lal Hussain his representative in Lahore. According to some historians, one of his descendants Muhammad Ali went to Gulbarga in Deccan whose grandson Hyder Ali later became the ruler of Mysore.