Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya(1238–1325), also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order. He was one of the most famous Sufis on the Indian subcontinent. Nizamuddin Auliya was born in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh. At the age of twenty, he went to Ajodhya (the present Pakpattan Sharif in Pakistan) and became a disciple of the Sufi saint Fariduddin Ganjshakar, frequently known as Baba Farid.