The Bhishti or Bahishti are a Muslim tribe or biradari found in North India, Pakistan and Nepal.

[1] Bhishtis trace their ancestry to Hazrat Abbas, son of the fourth Rashidun Caliph, Imam Ali.

One of them was 'Saqqa' or water-carrier, a honorific bestowed after the battle of Karbala in Iraq (680 CE), in which he sacrificed his life to fetch water for his half-brother Imam Hussain's children.

True to their origin on the battlefields of Karbala, the bhishtis continued to play an important role in the Subcontinent's military history through the Mughal and British eras.

[2] The bahishti has become a tribe which involves different castes, such as Abbasi, Qureshi, Turk, Farooqi, Samri Chohan, Behlim.