The book 'Fawaid ul Fawad' is the record of the conversations of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, it was compiled by

1. A

   Amir Hassan Sizzi

   (a) Official key: Fawaid-ul-Fawad is the malfuzat (recorded conversations) of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, compiled by his disciple Amir Hasan Sijzi (Sizzi) in the early fourteenth century. It is a principal Chishti source, not a work of Khusrau, Barani or Hasan Nizami. The compiler keyed here is Amir Hasan Sijzi.

2. B

   Amir Khusro

   Amir Khusrau was Nizamuddin’s famous disciple and a great poet-musician, but he did not compile Fawaid-ul-Fawad. Attributing the malfuzat to Khusrau confuses celebrity with the actual recorder. The text is Sijzi’s.

3. C

   Ziauddin Barni

   Ziauddin Barani wrote Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi and Fatawa-i-Jahandari, court-centred Indo-Persian prose, not this Sufi conversation book. Barani is the wrong genre and the wrong compiler.

4. D

   Hasan Nizami

   Hasan Nizami wrote Taj-ul-Maasir on the early Delhi Sultanate. He is not the compiler of Nizamuddin’s discourses. The name resemblance to Nizamuddin is a trap.

Summary. Official key is (a). Fawaid-ul-Fawad records Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya’s conversations as written down by Amir Hasan Sijzi. Khusrau is the celebrated disciple-poet, Barani the historian, Hasan Nizami the early Sultanate chronicler — none of them compiled this malfuz. The keyed compiler is Amir Hasan Sijzi.