Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan, a Karachi advocate from Barhang near Bhimber, wrote the 1997 history of Baba Shadi Shaheed and the Chibs: his life and works.
Thal Pir, a great rock at Ralwah near Samahni, marks where Baba Shadi Shaheed’s Hindu brother Raja Dal Khan was killed. The war, the legend and the shrine.
Rani Thakial, queen of Baba Shadi Shaheed, is said to have entered his grave alive. Her story, with Sajana Teli, the black dog and the two-coloured jasmine.
Who are the Shadi Khel? The Delhi descendants of Baba Shadi Shaheed by his Afghan wife, and the old Delhi quarter named after him, as four witnesses attest.
Baba Shadi Shaheed miracles as told by named devotees: vows for children, a lion’s salute, graves rebuilt after a dream and the red jasmine, 1957–1997.
Was Baba Shadi Shaheed’s conversion to Islam forced by the Sultan of Delhi or freely chosen? What the Chib chronicles, British records and 1997 history say.
How the Baba Shadi Shaheed darbar passed from hereditary Khokhar mujawirs to the Azad Kashmir Auqaf in 1961, and who has run the shrine since then.
Baba Shadi Shaheed, Raja Shadab Khan of Bhimber, was the first Chib ruler to embrace Islam: healer of a sultan, Mughal commander and martyr. His full story.
Chib customs and traditions: the first haircut at Baba Shadi Shaheed’s shrine, bread for a Teli at weddings, the healing toe, the tikka and the urs.
Baba Shadi Shaheed shrine on Aadhi Dhak near Bhimber: its tanks, mosques and graves, the two-coloured jasmine, the urs and the Chib first-haircut rite.