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Hussaini Brahmins are a sect within the Mohyal Brahmin community of the Punjab region. (2025). 9780367819040, Routledge. ISBN 9780367819040
The Mohyal community comprises seven sub-clans named Bali clan, Bhimwal, Chhibber, Datt, Lau clan, Mohan and Vaid.
However, as consistent with their Hindu tradition, they have adopted non-Indian religions traditions. This has led to a small sub-set of the Moyhal community paying reverence to Islam, most notably to the third Imam Hussain.
According to V. Upadhyaya संत-वैष्णव काव्य पर तांत्रिक प्रभाव, V. Upadhyaya, 1962, Page 181 they were influenced by the Chisti Sufis. While they wear the yajnopavita and the tilak, they take alms from only the Muslims, and not from Hindus. Hamara Samaj, Sant Ham, 1957, p. 115 Some of them are found in Pushakar, Ajmer, where Mu'in al-Din Chishti is buried. Jayasi, Malik Muhammad, Ramchandra Billaurey, 1973, p. 131 According to another tradition, Yazid's troops had brought Imam Husain's head to their ancestors home in Sialkot. In exchange for his head, the ancestor exchanged his own sons' heads. A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Based on the Census Report for the Punjab, 1883 · Volume 2, Horace Arthur Rose, Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Sir Edward Maclagan, 1911, p. 141 Famous Hussaini Brahmins include the actor Sunil Dutt, Urdu writers Kashmiri Lal Zakir, Sabir Dutt, and Nand Kishore Vikram.
Few families can still be found in parts of Iraq but most families of Hussaini Brahmins are now settled in Pune, Delhi, Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu region in India. Sindh, Chakwal District and Lahore in Pakistan and Kabul and South Afghanistan in Afghanistan. Some of them also observe Muharram every year.
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