Who's Who in India Supplement 1 (1912)/Mohammad Sultan alias Kazi Farzand Ahmad Faruqi Balkhi
Mohammad Sultan alias Kazi Farzand Ahmad Faruqi Balkhi, Khan Bahadur, K.-l.-H., was born on the 17th April, 1867, at Kazi Daulatpur. He claims his descent from Hazrat Umar Faruq of Medina, the second Khalifa, and is the 33rd in descent from him. One of his ancestors, Maulana Shah Shamsuddin-al-hakkani, was a Kazi in the city of Balkh,
and was highly respected as a religious man. It is recorded that late in life he took up a hermitage on the mountain of Balouri, where he died; his tomb is still in existence there. In 1654, an ancestor, Sheikh Sadre Jahan, came to India and was appointed a Kazi with lull Criminal and Judicial powers over the Parganas of Okri and Daulatpur (at present included in the District of Gaya) by the Kmperor Shah Jahan. The post of Kazi was hereditary and was enjoyed up to Kazi Rahmat-ullah alias Pir Ali. The Khan Bahadur's grandfather. Asad Ali. was made Kazi by the East India Company. He died in 1857. During the time of the Mutiny the Khan Bahadur's father, Kazi Ahmad Bakhsh; rendered conspicuous to the British and was appointed Kazi of Parganas Okri and Ekil, in the Province of Behar; he died in 1869. The Khan Bahadur was only about two years old when his father died, and he then lived at Gaya with his maternal grandmother, widow of the late Munshi Syed Chiragh Ali llashmi. The said Munshi Saheb had no son, but an only daughter, so his property was divided among his grand- children, the Khan Bahadur and his two sisters. The Khan Bahadur is a good Persian and Arabic scholar and has a fine for poetry. In 1895 he was appointed an Honorary Magistrate and in 1897 received the honour of Khan Bahadur for his loyalty and public services and liberality. In 1900, when plague broke out at Gaya, he helped the Government officials to keep the disease out of the city, to such an extent that he received the Kaisar-i-Hind Silver Medal. He further received a Certificate of Honour on Their Majesties' Coronation day last year. He is an all round sportsman and has obtained many prizes for the same. He owns landed property yielding an annual income of forty thousand rupee-.
His only son, Maulvi Kazi Anwar Ahmad Faruqi, was born on 21st of Moharram, 1310 Hijri.. His mother, Hashmi Kadri, the only wife of Khan Bahadur Kazi Farzand Ahmad, is the daughter of Khan Bahadur Syed Abu Saiyid, a rich zemindar of Patna Moulvi Anwar Ahmad is a man of public spirit and bids fair to turn out a good and useful man to his nation. Address: Gaya, Bengal.
K. B. KAZI FARZAND AHMAD (78)
KAZI ANWAR AHMAD (79)