Ahmed Din Khan
After Partition, the family of Din Muhammad settled in Pakpattan, his brother Ahmad Din Khan was patronized by the diwaan Qutbuddin, who was Sajjada Nasheen of Pakpattan. Ahmad Din Khan died in 1948 leaving his family under diwaan Qutbuddin. The other branch of family represented by Mubarak Ali and Fateh Ali got settled in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Tracing recent history of his family, Akram Hafeez Khan (1942-) told that his grandfather Misri Khan had three sons, namely, Umar Din known as Ajab Khan (a title given to him for his ability to sustain his voice on a note for an extraordinary length of time), Din Muhammad Khan and Ahmad Din Khan.
Taught by their father, and being a follower of Chishti Sabri order, these three brothers formed a qawwal party in Jalandhar and Din Muhammad was the main vocalist. Din Muhammad famous for combining Sufi and folk tradition of singing (known as doaaba ang ki qawwali; mostly rendered in the upper register) and therefore was quite popular in masses. He died in 1935 at the age of 50 years.
The tradition of qawwali was continued by the sons of his younger brother Ahmad Din Khan. Amongst the four sons, Miandad Khan, who was born on the day Din Muhammad died became the main vocalist of the qawwal party of four brothers. Interestingly, as Ahmad Din Khan died in 1948 and Mian Dad Khan was barely in his teens, he and his younger brothers learned qawwali from their mother, Barkat Bibi. Akram Khan told that she taught them to play harmonium and tabla which she leaned from Misri Khan.
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