Bābā Shāh Muḥammad Musāfir (“the traveller,” d. 1126/1714) was a Naqshbandī Ṣūfī and founder of the Panchakkī (watermill) hospice in Awrangābād, India (the Naqshbandiyya, whose eponymous founder, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband, died in 791/1389, is now widespread). He was born in Ghijduvān, near Bukhara in present-day Uzbekistan. His father was a pīr (spiritual master, Pers., lit., old) of the Kubrawiyya order (whose eponymous founder was Najm al-Dīn Kubrā of Kh^vārazm, d. 618/1221), and his mother was of sayyid descent (sayyids are those who claim descent from the Prophet). Orpha…