- Chaar Yaar
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Chaar Yaar ("Four Friends") - is used to refer to:
- Rashidun - The Rightly Guided Caliphs or The Righteous Caliphs used in Sunni Islam to refer to the first four Caliphs who established the Rashidun Caliphate, who ruled after the death of Muhammad are often quoted as the Khulafah Rashidun.
- Abu Bakr (632–634 AD)
- Umar ibn al-Khattab, (Umar І) (634–644 AD)
- Uthman ibn Affan (644–656 AD)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (656–661 AD)
- The great pioneers of the 13th century Chisti and Suhrawardiyya Sufi movements and followers of Moinuddin Chishti in South Asia were four friends known as "Chaar Yaar". However there were more than just 4 of them. Including Chisti himself they include:
- Moinuddin Chishti (1141–1230 AD)
- Baha-ud-din Zakariya of Multan (1170–1267 AD)
- Baba Farid Shakar Ganj of Pakpattan (1174–1266 AD)
- Lal Shahbaz Qalandar aka Jhulelal of Sehwan (1177–1274 AD)
- Syed Jalaluddin Bukhari of Uchch (c. 1192–1294 AD)
- Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325 AD)
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