Najib ad-Dawlah

Najib-ud-Daula
Nawab Mir Bakhshi Mukhtar Khas "Excellence of the State" "Noble one of the State"
Commander-in-Chief of The Mughal Empire
Office holding	1756 – 1759
Successor	Mirza Najaf Khan
Padishah	Alamgir II
Years active	1740 – 1770 (30 years)
Born	Early-18th Century 1707-08 Maneri, Kabul Subah (present-day Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Died	30 October 1770
Children	Zabita Khan
Military career
Allegiance	Mughal Empire (Mir Bakhshi of Alamgir II) Mughal Empire (in service of Shah Alam II) Durrani Empire
Service/branch	Mughal Army Kingdom of Rohilkhand
Rank	Ispahsalar, Plenipotentiary
Battles/wars	Mughal-Maratha Wars Third Battle of Panipat Capture of Agra Fort

Najib ad-Dawlah (Pashto: نجيب الدوله), also known as Najib Khan Yousafzai (Pashto: نجيب خان), was a Rohilla Yousafzai Afghan who earlier served as a Mughal serviceman but later deserted the cause of the Mughals and joined Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1757 in his attack on Delhi. He was also a House Chief of Rohilkhand, and in the 1740s founded the city of Najibabad in Bijnor district, India. He was instrumental in winning the Third Battle of Panipat.

He began his career in 1743 as an immigrant from Maneri, Swabi (of the Umarkhel subbranch of Mandanr Yousafzais) as a soldier. He was an employee of Imad-ul-Mulk but got alerte from going influence of Marhattas and by advise of Shah Waliullah, he invited Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1757 to attack on Delhi and secure the Muslims place in India. He was then appointed as Mir Bakhshi of the Mughal emperor by Abdali. Later in his career he was known as Najib ad-Dawlah, Amir al-Umra, Shuja ad-Dawlah.^[1] From 1757 to 1770, he was governor of Saharanpur, ruling over Dehradun. Many architectural relics of the period of Rohilla, the remains in Najibabad, were overseen by him, which he founded at the height of his career as a Mughal minister.^[2]