Syed Muhammad Ibrahim bin Syed Fatehullah Kirmani 1513-1575C.E. (AH 919-982), more popularly known as Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani was a 16th-century saint of the Qadiri order. The Shrine of Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani The mausoleum of Shaikh Daud Bandagi Kirmani in Shergarh, Punjab is an example of early Mughal architecture. The architect of the mausoleum, completed in AD 1580, was Ustad Baazid. His description of designing and building the shrine is extant in the 17th century hagiography of the saint, Maqamat-e-Daudi. The interior of the Husht Phelo (Octagonal) shrine is decorated with intricate Naqashi (floral and geometric wall frescoes). The eight interior alcoves and panels of the shrine are embellished with different naqashi patterns suggesting the unique signature work or style of the artists and artisans who with immense spiritual devotion built and decorated the shrine more than four centuries ago. On each of the eight interior lower alcoves are Persian couplets by Shah Abul Muali extolling the virtues of the saint. The grave of Daud Bandagi is in an enclosure located in the center of the shrine with the graves of six of his lineal descendants (Sajjada Nashin's) on either side. The exterior of the shrine has panels of intricate stucco tracery Manabat Kari on all sides including the outer alcoves. The shrine, today, is under the care of the Auqaf Department and the Archeology Department of the Government of Punjab, Pakistan. In the 1980s extensive restoration work was done on the mausoleum by the Archeology Department. The work inside the shrine was mainly on the preservation of the Naqashi frescoes. Reproductions of some Naqashi Patterns found inside the Shrine of Daud Bandagi Kirmani by students of the Naqsh School of Arts, Lahore The Account and Biography of Shaikh Daud Bandagi by Badaoni in Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh (MT) Badaoni's description of his meeting with Shaikh Daud in Volume II of MT Now Husain Qulí Khán, who was besieging Nagarkot and the fort of Kangrah, heard of the Mirzá's doings, and having made an agreement with the Hindús and received from the people of Nagarkót five man of gold as a douceur, after reading the khutbah in the Emperor's name, set out from that place with Mirzá Yúsuf Khán and Masnadi 'Álí Fattú, a ghulám of 'Adalí, Ismá'íl Qulí Khán, Rájah Bírbar, and other Amírs, and pursued him as far as Sankrah. When Husain Khán heard news of this, under the influence