{{Short description|Sufi saint from Jalna}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox religious biography | honorific-prefix = | name = | honorific-suffix = Hazrat Janullah Shah Baba | native_name = Miya Sahab | native_name_lang = | image = | alt = | caption = | religion = [[Islam]] | denomination = | school = | lineage = | sect = | subsect = | temple = | order = | institute = | founder = | philosophy = | known_for = Spreading Islam in [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] | education = | alma_mater = | other_names = Sayyid Jan Muhammad Sufi<!-- or: | other_name = --> | dharma_names = <!-- or: | dharma_name = --> | monastic_name = | pen_name = | posthumous_name = | nationality = Indian<!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] --> | flourished = | home_town = Punjab | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} or, if deceased, {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | death_place = Jalna, Maharashtra | death_cause = <!-- should only be included when the cause of death has significance for the subject's notability --> | resting_place = Miya Sahab Dargah, [[Jalna, Maharashtra|Jalna]], [[Aurangabad district, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]], [[Mughal Empire]].<br><small>Currently [[Jalna, Maharashtra|Jalna]], [[Maharashtra]].</small> | resting_place_coordinates = {{coord|19.8379|75.9018|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | location = | title = | period = | consecration = | predecessor = | successor = | reason = | rank = | teacher = <!-- or | guru = --> | reincarnation_of = | students = <!-- or | disciples = --> | initiated = | works = <!-- or | literary_works = --> | ordination = | initiation = | initiation_date = | initiation_place = | initiator = | profession = | previous_post = | present_post = | post = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | signature = | background = <!-- optional header background color --> }} '''Jan Muhammad of Jalna''' (or '''Sayyid Jan Muhammad Sufi''', '''Jan Muhammad Darwesh''') was a [[Sufi]] saint in the city of [[Jalna, Maharashtra|Jalna]] (in modern [[Maharashtra]] state).
In 1679 the [[Maratha]] leader [[Shivaji]] ransacked Jalna for three days, and being aware that Shivaji generally left alone sites of any religion, many of the wealthy of the town took refuge in the saint's [[dargah]] in the suburbs of the city.<ref name="Shashi1996">{{cite book|author=S. S. Shashi|title=Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_ovAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=24 October 2012|year=1996|publisher=Anmol Publications|isbn=978-81-7041-859-7}}</ref> However, on this occasion Shivaji looted the hermitage despite past precedent.<ref name="Dept1977">{{cite book|author=Maharashtra (India). Gazetteers Dept|title=Maharashtra State gazetteers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lto-AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=24 October 2012|year=1977|publisher=Director of Govt. Printing, Stationery and Publications, Maharashtra State}}</ref> When Shivaji died in 1680, only five months after his coronation, Muslims attributed his death to a curse from Jan Muhammad for having threatened the Sufi for giving shelter to the townsfolk and their wealth.<ref name="Azad1990">{{cite book|author=Mohammad Akram Lari Azad|title=Religion and politics in India during the seventeenth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxluAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=24 October 2012|year=1990|publisher=Criterion Publications}}</ref>
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[[Category:Jalna district]] [[Category:Shivaji]] [[Category:Indian Sufi saints]] [[Category:People from Maharashtra]] [[Category:People from the Maratha Empire]] [[Category:17th-century Mughal Empire people]] [[Category:People from Marathwada]] [[Category:Sufis from the Mughal Empire]]
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