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- Shah Hussain (Madho Lal Hussain) — Person · 1538 – 1599 (Latif's 1892 history gives his death as 1008 A.H. / 1599 A.D., p.145) · Kafi Poetry SongsShah Hussain, a Lahore Sufi poet remembered jointly with his disciple as Madho Lal Hussain, is described by his principal modern source as "a pioneer of the Kafi form in Punjabi poetry," and Syad Muhammad Latif's 1892 history of Lahore records that he died in 1008 A.H. (1599 A.D.) and was buried at Shahdara, only for the Ravi's flood to force a second burial at the shrine that stands today.
- Sultan Bahu — Person · 17 January 1630 – 1 March 1691 · Kafi Poetry SongsSultan Bahu (1630–1691) was a Punjabi Sufi poet of Shorkot and Jhang who founded his own Qadiri suborder, the Sarwari Qadiri, and is remembered above all for a single surviving book of Punjabi verse, the Abyat-e Bahu, out of the roughly hundred works tradition credits him with.
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid — Person · c. 1841/1845 – 1901 · Kafi Poetry SongsA Chishti Sufi poet of Chachran on the Indus, remembered by the district gazetteer of his own lifetime as one of the two best-known writers of the Multani kafi.