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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) · Punjabi Sufi PoetsShah 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.
- Bulleh Shah — Person · birth date and place unknown for certain (Shackle); died AH 1171 per the Persian chronogram on his tomb at Kasur, equivalent to 1757 or 1758 CE — "the later year is somewhat more probable" · Punjabi Sufi PoetsBulleh Shah, whose formal education and later life were spent at Kasur under the Mughal empire's decline, is — in Christopher Shackle's own words — "long been rightly regarded as the greatest master of the mystical Sufi lyric in Panjabi," though "remarkably few details of his life can be reliably established."
- Waris Shah — Person · b. 1722 – d. 1799 (aged 76–77); composed his Heer in 1766 · Punjabi Sufi PoetsA Sayyid poet of Jandiala Sher Khan whose 1766 telling of Heer Ranjha became the version by which the story is popularly known, and whose text was corrupted by thousands of later interpolated verses within a century and a half of his death.
- Sultan Bahu — Person · 17 January 1630 – 1 March 1691 · Punjabi Sufi PoetsSultan 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.
- Mian Muhammad Bakhsh — Person · c. 1830 – 22 January 1907 · Punjabi Sufi PoetsA Qadiri Sufi of Khari Sharif near Mirpur who turned the Arabic tale of Prince Saif ul-Muluk into a Punjabi masnavi so widely read that its verses are still recited from memory across Punjab and Azad Kashmir.
- Hashim Shah — Person · c. 1752/53 – 1821/23 (Athar Tahir's 'generally accepted dates'); a separate, more venerative tradition gives 1735–1843, with burial at Tharpal village, Narowal District, Pakistan · Punjabi Sufi PoetsHashim Shah, a Punjabi Sufi poet of Jagdev Kalan in Amritsar district, composed the qissa romances Sassi Punnun, Sohni Mahiwal and Shirin Farhad, and left almost nothing of his own life in them beyond the pen-name he tucked into the close of nearly every stanza.
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid — Person · c. 1841/1845 – 1901 · Punjabi Sufi PoetsA 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.