Tradition says Hindus and Muslims fought over Kabir's body and found only flowers under the sheet

Kabir was a poet. The district administration of Sant Kabir Nagar says he was loved equally by Muslims and Hindus. A belief of his time held that a person who died in Varanasi would be freed from rebirth, while one who died in Maghar would be reborn as a donkey. The district administration of Sant Kabir Nagar says Kabir chose to die in Maghar to break that belief, in January 1518. The tradition says his Hindu followers wanted to cremate him and his Muslim followers wanted to bury him. When they lifted the cloth over the body, they found flowers. Each group took half. The Hindus built a samadhi and the Muslims a mazar over their share. The two shrines stand at Maghar today. The district government says they stand side by side; Wikipedia puts them about 100 metres apart. A 2013 report by Vidya Bhushan Rawat found the samadhi growing with an annual festival and the mazar neglected, with part of it demolished by the Archaeological Survey of India. Its caretaker, Shabir Hussein, said festival money did not reach it, and asked: "Is it possible that a body becomes flower after death?" The mazar was under restoration in April 2026. No historical record confirms the story of the flowers.