Makhdum Shah
Makhdum Shah Daulah Shahid was a Twelveth Century Sufi saint recognized for his preaching of Islam in northern India. He was martyred at Shahjadpur in Sirajganj District, Rajshahi Division in what is now Bangladesh.
Makhdum Shah was a descendant of Sahaba Muaz ibn Jabal, And he was the second son of the king of Yemen at that time.
Together with some twenty companions, he travelled east by the land route through Bukhara and into India preaching Islam. In Bukhara, He met famous sufi saint Jalaluddin Bukhari and spent some times with him. Bukhari presented Saint Daulah with a pair of gray pigeons.
Eventually they settled in Shahzadpur, at the time part of a Hindu kingdom. The king was displeased with the disruption caused by Makhdum Shah and his followers and ordered them expelled from his kingdom. Makhdum Shah refused to comply and he and nearly all of his followers were killed.
His Pir Murshid is Hazrat Shah Shamsuddin Tabrez .
Makhdum Shah is buried in Shahjadpur in Sirajganj District, near the Shahi mosque.
