Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi is worshipped by people around the world and is revered by both his Muslim and Hindu devotees, and during, as well as after, his life on earth it remained uncertain if he was a Muslim or Hindu himself.Sai Baba was born in very early hours of September 27 or 28, 1835 to a poor Hindu couple, Gangabhavadya and Devagiriamma. The newborn infant was abandoned. The infant is immediately discovered and adopted by a childless Muslim fakir and his wife.