ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār Bukhārī (d. 802/1399), Muḥammad b. Muḥammad, the first khalīfa of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband, eponym of the Naqshbandiyya order.
He was apparently born in Bukhārā, the son of an immigrant from Khwārazm. After his father’s death, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn renounced his inheritance and took up residence in a madrasa in Bukhārā, studying various sciences there and observing a strict ascetic lifestyle (Kāshifī, 139–140; Ghulām Sarwar, 1/551–552).
It is related that Khwājah Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband received inspiration directing him to give his daughter in marriage to …