Shah Niyaz Naqshbandi:

Khanqah of Shah Niyaz Naqshbandi shrine is situated in Khanyar locality of Syedbari in Srinagar. He was the second son of Syed Abdur Rahim Naqshbandi who belonged to the royal family of Turkistan. Shah Niyaz was born in Jammu and later came to Kashmir along with his father. Whatever money he got from his father, he constructed a shrine in 1212 H (1797). In which a guest house and school existed.

A deputation visited from Turkistan to take him back to Turkistan but he refused. Shah Niyaz Naqshbandi was a poet and a scholar of high repute. He authored some Persian books also out of which Chainama and Deewan-e- Niyaz are worth mentioning. His death occurred in 1245 H (1829) in Kabul where he was buried in the royal graveyard.

The shrine which exists today has the tomb of his father Abdur Rahim Naqshbandi which is known by the Kashmiris as the Khosa Sahib. The shrine possesses not only the sacred hair of the Prophet (SAW) but also other secret things such as the Hair of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique, the first Caliph, the attire of Hazrat Imam-e- Azam, the head gear of Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, the stick of Imam Musa Raza and few parts of the Holy Quran which were written by Hazrat Usman Ghani. He was reciting the same Quran before his martyrdom. It is for this reason that it has some blots of blood. Some of the parts of this Holy Quran are preserved in the museums of Istanbul (Turkey) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). The two and half parts of the Quran were gifted to the Naqshbandi family by the Mughals.