1.No earlier writer has given date of birth,Shaikh Abdul Haq informs us that he died in 633A.H./1236 A.D ,Akhbarul Akhyar,p.22, Jamali says he was died at the age of 97(siyar-ul-Arifin) thus calculated his date of birth is 536A.H./1141A.D.
2. S.A.A. Rizvi, ‘A History of Sufism in India’, p.123
3. Amir Khurd, ‘Siyar-ul-Auliya’, p.363.
4. Imam Ghazali, ‘Ihya-ul-ulum-ul-Din’, chapt.IVth.
5. Ibid.
6. Al Hajwuri, ‘Kashf-ul-Mahjub’, p.93.
7. Amir Khurd, op.cit. Pp.34-35.
8. Imam Ghazali, op.cit.Chapt.IVth.
9. Amir Hasan Sijzi, ‘Fawaid-ul-Fawad’, p.181. 10 .K. A. Nizami, Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in Indian History during the Thirteenth Century,(2nd ed.) Delhi, 1974, P.241.
11. Amir Khurd, op.cit. p.47.
12. S.A.A.Rizvi, op.cit. p.140.
13. Amir Khurd, op.cit. p.363.
14. K.A.Nizami, ‘Early Indo-Muslim Mystics and their Attitude towards the state’, Islamic Culture, octobar, 1948, p.393.
15. Ibid. p.395.
16.Barani, Tarikh-i- Feroz Shahi, (Sir Syed ed.) p.207.
17. Amir Hasan Sijzi, op.cit. p.99.
18. Ibid. p.215.
19. Jamali, Siyar-ul-Arifin, p.78.
20. Barani, op.cit. p.45, ‘Qiwam-ul-Aqaid’ deals in chapters VIth and VIIth with the devotion of Nobles, Maliks and Sultans to Shaikh, PP.25, 176.
21. Mohammad Jamal Qiwamuddin, Qiwam-ul-Aqaid, pp.233-234.
22. K.A.Nizami, Nizamuddin Auliya, Delhi, 1991, p.103.
23. Ibid. p.181.
24. Ibid. p.185.
25. K.A.Nizami mentions 50,000 tanka in ‘Life and Times of Nizamuddin Auliya’, p.119.
26. Mohammad Jamal Qiwamuddin, op.cit. , pp.191-193.
27. Ibid.pp.193-194.
28. Raziuddin Aqeel, ‘Sufi cults, politics and conversion: The Chishtis of the sultanat period’, I.H.R., vol.22, No.1-2, July1995, p.194; S.A.A.Rizwi, A History of Sufism in India,p. 185.
29. S.A.A.Rizawi, A History of Sufism in India, p.185.
30. Badauni, Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, I, Calcutta, 1868, p.242.
31. S.A.A.Rizawi, op.cit.p.189.
32. Hamid Qalandar, Khairul Mjalis, pp.12, 17 and 22.
33. S.A.A.Rizvi, op.cit. p.189.
34. Ibid.p.187.
35. Ibid.p.77; Raziuddin Aqeel, op.cit.p.194.
36. Raziuddin Aqeel, op.cit.p.194.
37. Ibid.
38. Barani, op.cit.p.207