ʿAlī b. Ḥusām al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Mālik b. Qāḍī Khān, known as " Muttaqī " (885-975/1480-1568) was a leading ḥadīth scholar, reform-oriented Ṣūfī, and political advisor in the sultanate of Gujarat. He wrote approximately sixty books about ḥadīth , Ṣūfism, and morality. 1. Life Born in Burhānpūr in 885/1480, ʿAlī Muttaqī was initiated into the Chishtiyya brotherhood ( ṭarīqa , lit. "way") under Bahāʾ al-Dīn Shāh Bājan (d. 911/1506). He served in the court at Māndʾū in his teens, but soon afterwards renounced worldly ambition.