Kilich Khan II

Hajji Nawab Khwaja Abid Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi, Khwaja Abid Khan, Kilich Khan Bahadur, Ghazi Kilich Khan son of Shaikh Mir Ismail Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi ( Alam Shaikh Siddiqi )(Died1691) better known as Kilich Khan a title given by Emperor Shah Jahan later he became a Nawab under Emperor Aurangzeb. He was a loyal general of the Mughal Empire. He was the father of Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung also a Mughal General and the grandfather of the celebrated Nizam-ul-Mulk Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asaf Jah I of Hyderabad.

Kilich Khan was born in Adelabad near the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand. His father was Khwaja Ismail Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi s/o Shaikh Allahdad Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi s/o Shaikh Abdul Rehman Azizzan Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi the 14th in direct descent from Shaikh Shihab uddin Siddiqi Bayafandi Suhrawardy of Sohrevard in Kurdistan a celebrated Sufi mystic lived in Persia, a renowned scholar known for his piety and knowledge of the law and was even honored with the title Allum-ul-Ulemma (wisest of the wise). Through his fathers side of the family Nawab Kilich Khan could trace his lineage back 34 generations to the first Caliph of Islam Abu Bakr Siddique since Nawab Kilich Khan was his direct descendant through the Bayafandi Clan in the Asir province area of Arabia, and on his mother's side of the family he can trace his ancestry to the Prophet Muhammad.

Kilich Khan broke with family tradition and became a fighter rather than a scholar. Kilich Khan is known to have utilized the Composite bow and arrow, he kept the Quran attached to his Quiver and rode along with a Crescent standard and a yellow flag. Henry Brigs a historian wrote,

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