Reign 1530 Died Qadian Successor Mirza Faiz Muhammad | Religion Islam House Timur | |
Mirza Hadi Beig was an Indian nobleman of Central Asian origin. He was given the title of Mirza. He was the direct ancestor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Life and Reign
Mirza Hadi Beg was born in Samarkand, Greater Khorasan (present-day Uzbekistan) and was a descendant of the Mughal Barlas tribe, a Turkic tribe of partial Mongolian descent. He migrated to India from Samarkand during the reign of the Mughal king Babur and settled in the Punjab near Beas establishing a state of 80 villages one of which he named as Islampur. The imperial court of Babur had given the village to Mirza Hadi Baig as part of a large tract of land. As Mirza Hadi Baig was granted legal jurisdiction over the area as a local qadi (islamic magistrate), the village became known as Islampur Qadi. The name of the village evolved into various forms based on cognates, until "Islampur" was dropped altogether, and it simply came to be known as Qadian; the name under which it is still known as of today. Mirza Hadi Baig lived and died in his own town. His family had held important posts in the Mughal Empire and had family relations with the emperor Babur.