apparently the most prominent sayyids of bihar has been malick community, who descended from the seven sons and immediate blood relatives of sayyid ibrahim malick,(d 1353 ad) who was also a ruler of bihar and a famous sufi saint. in bihar, sayyids were landlords, barristers, intellectuals, clerics, teachers, businessmen and farmers. they had apparently strong hold of bihari politics prior to independence of india, as the first chief minister of bihar during the british india was barrister yunus of panhar, also a sayyid of mallick community, there is also a small minority of twelver sayyids in bihar.