Muntakhab al-tawarikh 84: III. Shaikh Muhammad Ghaus of Gwaliyar.

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He was the disciple of Shaikh Zuhur and Haji Huzur, otherwas known as Haji and his spiritual descent could be traced back, through the line of the Shattari order of ascetics to Shaikh Bayazid of Bustam, the prince of knowers of God. (May God sanctify his soul!) When entering on the religious life he spent twelve years on the lower slopes of the hills of Cunar and the adjoining country, practising the most severe austerities, having his dwelling in caves and subsisting on the leaves of trees. He was an acknowledged master in the science of exorcism, he possessed supernatural power, and was drawn in a mysterious manner towards God. He obtained leave to practise this science (of exorcism) from his elder brother, Shaikh Buhlul, who was a worker of miracles and wonders. placed him beside himself. He had not the strength to listen to hymns.
When I, in the year 960 A.H. (A.D. 1553), being then in my twelfth year, arrived in company with my father at Sambhal, and there entered the service of the Shaikh, I learnt by heart, in his hospice, the Qasida-yi-burda, and thus gained admission (to the ranks of his disciples), and there I also read, to my great spiritual advantage and profit, part of the book Kanz-i-fiqh-i-Hanafi. The Shaikh then enrolling me among his direct disciples said to my father, “I have bestowed upon your son the cap and the tree which descend from my spiritual teacher Miyan Shaikh ‘Azizu-’llah for this reason, that he may acquire also some exoteric knowledge” (i.e., beyond the esoteric knowledge which he was to acquire). And for this praise be to God. In the year 969 A.H. (A.D. 1561-2) the holy Shaikh went into God’s Presence, and the words “the wise darvish” give the date of his death. May God make his dust fragrant! And it so happened that my father too received the summons of God’s mercy in the same year. One might say that the position in which he stood to the Shaikh as his disciple made it necessary that he should so follow him.