Muhammad Jaunpuri
Template:Short description Template:Verification Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox person Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpuri (Template:Langx; 9 September 1443 – 23 April 1505) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Mahdavia movement. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Mahdī, in fulfillment of the Islamic prophecies regarding the end times. Hailing from Jaunpur, he traveled extensively throughout India, Arabia and Khorasan.<ref name="Balkhi bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early lifeEdit
His first wife, Bibi Alahdadi, was the daughter of his uncle, Syed Jalaluddin. He married her in Jaunpur in 866H, when he was nineteen years old. Syed Muhammad and Alhadadi had two sons and two daughters together, Syed Mahmood Sani-e-Mahdi, Syed Ajmal, Syeda Khunza and Syeda Fatima.
TravelsEdit
He left Jaunpur along with his family and a group of followers. Migrating from place to place and gathering companions, that would later become the core of the Mahdavia sect founded by him, until he reached Farah in Afghanistan.
Pilgrimage and claim to be the MahdiEdit
By the age of 53 he embarked on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, where in 1496 (901 Hijri), after circumambulating the Kaaba, he declared that he was the Promised Mahdi and whoever believes in him is a Momin.
After staying in Mecca for nearly seven or nine months,<ref name="Yaqoob">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> he returned to India where he proclaimed himself Mahdi at Ahmedabad and later at Badhli (near Patan, Gujarat).