Tirmizi or Tirmidhi or Termezi (Persian: ترمذی) is a surname in Central Asia and South Asia. Their forefathers migrated in the 9th or 10th CE to what is now Pakistan (at that time India) from Tirmiz, a town of modern-day Uzbekistan, hence the use of the surname of Tirmizi..
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Tirmizi families settled in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India are descendants from Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandson Husayn ibn Ali, son of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and his son-in-law Ali (Ali ibn Abi Talib). However, scholarly opinion holds that they are instead Persian/Tajiks who adopted their supposed Syed origins later on.
Supposed origins
Tirmizis mostly follow Sunni Islam. Scholars claim that during the days of persecution Taqiya was generally developed to protect Syeds who were usually in the minority, under Al-Ma'mun in the 9th century, while the politically dominant Sunnites rarely found it necessary to resort to dissimulation.
Present day
Tirmizis settled in Pakistan are mostly descendants of the supposed Sufi saint Syed Ali Shah Tirmizi Pir Baba. Pir Baba's grave and shrine is in Bacha Killay village in the mountainous Buner District of present Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. syed tirmizi are also in punjab called as sadhorah sadat (mostly in jhang sadar punjab) they were migrated from india called as city sadhorah .