SHAYKH ṢÚFÍ BADHNÍ.

His birthplace was Oudh. He lived a life of extraordinary abstrac­tion, heedless of all save the worship of God. It is said that Khwájah Ḳuṭbu'ddín and he, with a number of others, were taken prisoners by the Mughals. Hunger and thirst drove the captives to the greatest straits. It was then that the Khwájah, by supernatural power, drew forth from his wallet warm cakes (kák), with which he supplied each one of the party, while the Ṣúfí gave them all to drink from his broken water-vessel (badhná). From this circumstance the Khwájah was called Kákí,* and the other Badhní.