Chaar Yaar

Chaar Yaar or Char Yaar (meaning "Four Friends" in Persian) is used to refer to:

• Rashidun, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, used in Sunni Islam to refer to the first four Caliphs who established the Rashidun Caliphate
  • Abu Bakr (632–634), through his daughter Aisha, became a father-in-law of Muhammad.
  • Umar (634–644), through his daughter Hafsa bint Umar, became a father-in-law of Muhammad.
  • Uthman (644–656), by marrying Ruqayya bint Muhammad and Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad, two daughters of Muhammad, became a son-in-law of Muhammad.
  • Ali (656–661), by marrying Fatima and Umama bint Abi al-As, daughter and granddaughter of Muhammad, became a son-in-law of Muhammad.

• The great pioneers of the 13th century Chishti Order and the Suhrawardiyya Sufi movements in South Asia were four friends known as the Chaar Yaar. The original four were:
  • Bahauddin Zakariya of Multan (1170–1267 AD)
  • Baba Farid of Pakpattan (1174–1266 AD)
  • Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, aka Jhulelal of Sehwan (1177–1274 AD)
  • Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari of Uch (c. 1192–1291 AD)

• However, later on, there were more than just four of them in Punjabi Sufi iconography. Including Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, they include:
  • Mu'in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer (1141–1230 AD)
  • Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi (1238–1325 AD)