Mir Abu Turab's Tomb
Mir Abu Turab's Tomb, locally known as Qadam-e-Rasul ki Dargah is a medieval tomb in Behrampura, Ahmedabad, India.
History
Mīr Abū Turāb Walī b. S̲h̲āh Quṭb al-Dīn S̲h̲ukr Allāh aka S̲h̲āh Abū Turāb al-ʿUraiḍī al-Ḥusainī was a S̲h̲īrāzī Saiyid and whose family were followers of the Saisalah-i-Maghrabiyah. His grandfather Saiyid Shah Mir was a scholar who emigrated from S̲h̲īrāz to Muhammadabad, Gujarāt during the reign of Mahmud Begada, sulṭān of Gujarāṭ. Abū Turāb's first notable role was as the intermediary between the noble Iʿtimād K̲h̲ān and the Mughal emperor Akbar, when the former requested the latter to invade and annex Gujarat. In Akbar's 1572 invasion of Gujarāt, Mīr Abū Turāb among other nobles paid homage to their new emperor. When Akbar left Aḥmadābād, Abu Turāb was among the few nobles who chose to remain loyal to the emperor and not revolt.In 1577, appointed Mīr-i Ḥajj, he brought back a large stone from Mecca with a right footprint of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 1579. Taken first to Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri or Āgrah, Akbar received the stone with great respect and carried it on his shoulders for a hundred paces. The matching left footprint is believed to have been brought to Sulṭān Fīrūz S̲h̲āh years ago by Mak̲h̲dūm-i Jahāniyān. In 1530 the emperor granted permission for Abū Turāb to take to stone to Gujarāt where he had it placed in Asāwal. When in 1583 Iʿtimād was made Governor of Gujarāt, Abū Turāb followed him as Amīn-i ṣūbah. He fought alongside Iʿtimād during the rebellion of the old sulṭān of Gujarāt, Muẓaffar S̲h̲āh III, who at one point recaptured Aḥmadābād. Akbar granted Abū Turāb several villages near Khambhat where his descendants would reside. Abū Turāb died in 1595 and was buried in his mausoleum outside of Aḥmadābād in the village limits of Behrampura aka Asāwal. He also wrote Tārīk̲h̲-i Gujarāt'', which traces the history of the Gujarāt Sultanate from the reign of Bahādur S̲h̲āh to the capture of Aḥmadābād by Muẓaffar S̲h̲āh III. The stone was later removed from Abū Turāb's tomb and taken to Khambhat.
In 1695–96, during the reign of the emperor Aurangzeb, the government allocated 4,164 rupees for the repairs of the masjid in Muazzampur village and Abū Turāb's mausoleum in Asāwal.
The tomb was damaged in 2001 Gujarat earthquake and was restored in 2002 by Archaeological Survey of India.