Saadat-e-Bara (Urdu: ہسادات بار), sometimes pronounced Sadaat-e-Barha, are a community of Sayyids, originally from a group of twelve villages situated in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh in India. This community had considerable influence during the reign of the Mughal Empire. Its members were also found in Karnal District and Haryana, Gujarat & Karnataka state in India. The majority of the members of this community have migrated to Pakistan after independence and have settled in Karachi, Khairpur State in Sind and Lahore.
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Map of Bara Sadat, Pakistan
History and Origin
The ancestor of Bārha Sayyids, Syed Abu'l Farah AlHussaini, left his original home in Wasit, Iraq, with his twelve sons at the end of the 10th century (or in the beginning of the 11th century) and migrated to India, where he obtained four estates in Punjab. Over time, Abu'l Farah's descendants had taken over Bārha riyasat(township)in Muzzafarnagar.
There are four sub-divisions of Barha Sadaat in Muzaffarnagar area :
- the Tihaanpuri, whose chief town was Jansath,
- the Chatraudi, whose chief town was Sambhalhera, belong to syed abu'l Fazaail
- the Kundliwal, whose chief town was Mujhera,
- the Jajneri, whose chief town was Bidauli.
The origin of the Sadaat-e-Bara or Barha is traced to Sayyid Abu'l Farah AlHussaini Wasiti, son of Sayyid Daud AlHussaini, who came to Ghazni in Afghanistan, from Wasit, at the invitation of Mahmud Ghaznavi. He had twelve sons of whom four settled in four villages Kundli Tihanpur, Jajner and Chhat-Banur, near the city of Patiala. These four sons founded a number of clans, the main ones being Chhatrodi, Kundliwal, Tihanpuri and Jajneri, from the villages assigned to them.
Another descendant of Syed Abu'l Farah was Syed Mustufa AlHussaini (Thasra Village- Gujarat)& his brothers Syed Alaad(Alauddin) AlHussaini( Gothada Village -Savli-Gujarat) & Syed Nateeb AlHussaini ( Pali Village -Gujarat )During the Sultan Mahemud Begada's Sultanate & Syed Mustufa's son Syed Muhammed AlHussaini Qazi-ul-qazat who was given a post of Chief justice and a grant of three villages in Sarnal, Gujarat by emperor Aurangzeb in 1674 AD and he migrated there. These three brothers' descendants form the branched of Sadat Bárha in Gujarat (Thasra, Pali & Gothada).
When the Sayyids came to India from Central Asia they chose to settle in Muzaffarnagar; these people were called the Saiyids of Barha or (Sadaat-e-Barah)]. The area has one of the largest concentrations of Sayyids in India.
Villages
Some of the villages where Barha Sayyids can be found are:
Saithal is a branch of Sadaat-e-Bara ,descendants of syed Abu'l Fazaail Chatraudi,son of Syed Abu'l Faraah Wasiti