Not to be confused with Pir Buddhu Shah (13 June 1647–21 March 1704), another Sufi who was an ally and contemporary of Guru Gobind Singh.
Pir Budhan Shah[note 1] (died 1643;[1]پیر بدھن علی شاہ), also called Baba Budhan Ali Shah, Peer Baba, and Sayyed Shamsuddin,[2][3][4] was a venerated
Sufipir[5] who held a religious discourse with
Guru Nanak in
Rawalpindi and later accepted
Gurmat thought during the times of
Guru Hargobind.[6][7] He was a Sufi Muslim by birth he was born in
Talwandi, the same village as Guru Nanak.[3] He is venerated by Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindus.[3] It is believed that he lived for around 500 years.[3]
Renunciation
Buddan Shah, a
Muhammedan,[8] belonged to a family of chieftains, but left everything to become a Sufi mystic.[9] He lived near Rawalpindi. Guru Nanak met him during his travels.[10][11] He is believed to have arrived in
Jammu sometime during the 15th century.[3]
He was very close to
Bidhi Chand Chhina, as were his followers.[12] His disciple, Sunder Shah, died together with Bidhi Chand at Devnagar near
Ayodhya on the banks of the
Gomti River in 1638.[13]