Muḥammad Bakhsh (1830-1907), popularly known as Miyāṇ Muḥammad, was a Panjābī Ṣūfī poet from Mīrpūr (in Azad Kashmir). He is celebrated particularly for his long narrative poem Sayf al-Mulūk , completed in 1863. 1. Early life He was born into a Qādirī Ṣūfī lineage based at Khaŕī, near Mīrpūr (McLoughlin and Khan), then under the rule of the Hindu princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The patron saint of Khaŕī was Muḥammad Pīrā Shāh Ghāzī Qalandar (d. 1162/1749), known as Damŕiyāṇ vālā Sarkār (lord of the copper coins),