the ancestor of the bārha sayyids, sayyid abu'l farah al hussaini al wasti left his original home in wasit, iraq, with his twelve sons at the end of the 13th century (or the beginning of the 14th century) and migrated to india, where he obtained four villages in sirhind-fategarh. by the 16th century abu'l farah's descendants had taken over bārha villages in muzaffarnagar.