Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad (Bahāʾ Walad or Sulṭān al-ʿUlamāʾ), Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn Khaṭībī Bakrī (543–628/1148–1231), a prominent Sufi master and preacher (wāʿiẓ), and the father of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī Rūmī.

Bahāʾ Walad’s lineage is said to have gone back to the first caliph, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, while on his mother’s side he was the grandson of ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Kh^ʷārazm-Shāh (Aflākī, 1/7–9; see also Jāmī, 459), but this lineage is not attested to in reliable historical accounts (see Furūzānfar, 7–8). In the Maʿārif, a record of his sermons and sayings, his honorif…