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'''Abdallah''' ({{Langx|ar|عبدالله}}) was the first [[Isma'ili]] missionary ({{Transliteration|ar|[[da'i]]}}) in [[Gujarat]].<br />
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He was sent from [[Yemen]] to Cambay (Khambat),{{sfn|Daftary|2007|p=276}} Gujarat in India in about 1067 AD (460AH). [[Syedi Nuruddin]] was his companion who also visited Imam [[Al-Mustansir Billah]], Egypt. He joined the Ismaili faith under Fatimid Dai [[Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi]], and came back to Khambat, India to propagate the [[Taiyabi]] faith. His earlier name was Balam Nath.<ref>[http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/8200,] 12.0 The Fatimid Da'i Al-Mu'ayyad: His Life, by: Dr. Abbas Hamdani, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (U.S.A.): "The spread of the Da'wa in Deccan and its origin in al-Mu'ayyad is mentioned by Khwaj b. Malik in his Majmu' (p. 1 3) as follows:' In the district of Deccan there is a village called Daham Gam. lman (faith) spread in this district from this village, just as in Gujarat it spread from Cambay. In this village there were two .men who acquired knowledge, then proceeded from India, in the time of al-Mustansir, to Egypt and joined the lsma'ili faith at the bidding of Sayyidna al-Mu'ayyad from whom they acquired much knowledge. Their names were (Ba)Lam Nath(known as Moulai Abdullah) and Rup Nath (later called Mawla'i Nurad-Din). Both of them returned from Egypt to their native village, (Khambat(Cam Bay, and) Daham Gam(near Aurangabad), where their tombs still exist near Aurangabad."</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sayeed|first=Ahmed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MknEAAAQBAJ&q=Baalam+Nath&pg=PA2|title=Burning Endurance|publisher=Sankalp Publication|isbn=978-93-90636-83-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-14|title=The Early Indian Islamic Missionaries|url=https://today.salamweb.com/the-early-indian-islamic-missionaries-and-what-you-should-know-about-them/|access-date=2021-04-25|website=SalamWebToday|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425050142/https://today.salamweb.com/the-early-indian-islamic-missionaries-and-what-you-should-know-about-them/|url-status=usurped}}</ref><br />
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He is said to have stayed some years at Cambay studying the people. He died on August 12, 1141, in [[Khambhat]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]] and his mausoleum is located there.<br />
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The [[da'i]] named Ahmad once took two the Gujarati orphans (Abdallah and [[Syedi Nuruddin|Nuruddin]]) to [[Cairo]], trained them in the [[Isma'ilism|Ismaili]] doctrine, and sent them back to Gujarat as missionaries. Abdallah laid the foundation of the [[Dawoodi Bohra|Bohra]] community.{{sfn|Blank|2001|p=37}} According to the Bohra myths, [[Jayasimha Siddharaja|Jayasimha]] sent an army to capture Abdallah, but Abdallah converted him to Islam by performing miracles and by exposing the purported miracles of Hindu [[pandit]]s as fake. There is no evidence that Jayasimha ever gave up Shaivism, but several of the Bohra [[List of Dai of Dawoodi Bohra#The Walī-ul-Hind|Walis and Da'i al-Mutlaqs]] claimed descent from him.{{sfn|Blank|2001|p=38}} These included [[Ismail Badruddin I|Syedna Ismail]], the 34th [[Da'i al-Mutlaq]].{{sfn|Blank|2001|p=44}}<br />
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Two stories are told of his first missionary success. According to one story, Abdallah gained a cultivator's heart by filling his dry well with water. The second states that he travelled to Ahlinvada, Patan. King Sidhraj Jaisingh then sent a force of armed men to fetch him, and surrounded with wall of fire. The King himself went there to meet him. Later on, two of his ministers, Tarmal and Bharmal, became his follower.<br />
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[[Syedi Hasan Feer]], 14th century famous saint at Sultan of Patan, was also from the lineage of Maulaya Abdallah.<ref>[http://www.zeninfosys.net/urus/content/syedi-hasanfeer-shaheed-qs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208035514/http://www.zeninfosys.net/urus/content/syedi-hasanfeer-shaheed-qs|date=2017-02-08}}, syedi-hasanfeer-shaheed-qs</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Blank |first=Jonah |title=Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-226-05676-0 }}<br />
* {{Daftary-The Ismailis|edition=Second}}<br />
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