His name was Muḥammad and he was the son of Aḥmad Dányál who came from Ghaznín to Badáon in A. H. 632 (A. D. 1234-35), where Niẓámu'ddín was born. For a time he went through the ordinary course of studies and received the epithet of Niẓám al-Baḥḥátḥ, or the Controversialist, and Maḥfil Shikan, the Assembly-router. At the age of twenty he went to Ajodhan and became the disciple of Farídu'ddín Ganj i Shakkar and obtained the key of the treasury of inward illumination. He was then sent to Delhi to instruct the people, and many under his direction attained to the heights of sanctity, such as Shaykh Naṣíru'ddín Muḥammad Chirágh i Dihlí, Mír Khusrau, Shaykh Aláu'l Ḥaḳḳ, Shaykh Akhí Siráj, in Bengal, Shaykh Wajíhu'ddín Yúsuf in Chandérí, Shaykh Yạḳúb and Shaykh Kamál in Málwah, Mauláná Ghiyáṣ, in Dhár, Mauláná Mughíṣ, in Ujjain, Shaykh Ḥusain, in Gujarát, Shaykh Burhánu'ddín Gharíb, Shaykh Muntakhab, Khwájah Ḥasan, in the Dekhan. He died in the forenoon of Wednesday, the 18th Rabíi' II, A. H. 725 (3rd April 1325). His tomb is in Delhi.*