Mazaar of Peer Haji Rattan, Bhatinda, Punjab India

Situated between civil hospital and Grain market. Legend goes that as Ambassador of Raja Bhoj, Baba Haji Rattan visited Mecca at Bathinda. The place is hallowed by the visit of Guru Nanak Dev and Guru Gobind Singh.

According to one legend he was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and lived for over 700 years. The first references to Haji Ratan in Islamic literature date back to twelfth century. Several Hadith collectors traveled from as far as Andalusia and Central Asia to collect the supposed traditions from him. Abu Marwan Andalusi, a Spanish Muslim chronicler, visited Haji Ratan and penned an interesting sketch of him. ‘When he arrived at the Baba’s monastery, he was taken aback to see an ancient, wrinkled man, his cheeks covered with hair ‘as white as cotton’. The Baba addressed him in a language he could not understand, claiming, as was later translated for him, that he was present in Medina during the famed Battle of the Trench…At that time, he said, he was just fourteen years old. When the Prophet saw him laboring at the trenches, he blessed him with a long life.’