Baba and the four men (Adi Sr., Gustadji, Kaka, Baidul) left Kathgodam on 22 July 1942 and went to Bareilly, where he again contacted the saint Bashir Mian and spent the night at a hotel.
They reached Najibabad at 6:15 P.M. the next evening, and went from there to the small village of Sahanpur some distance away in two tongas. The tonga had to wade through a small lake, and their seats and clothes got drenched. Baba changed into some of Adi's clothes until his own dried. All Baba's strenuous efforts were well spent, for in Sahanpur, Baba found a young mast of 30 years old called Ghani Baba .
The mast's parents confronted Baba, complaining they believed their son had gone "insane," and were terribly distraught about his condition. Baba calmed them, explaining to them that their son was, in fact, spiritually advanced, and not insane. He blessed the mast's parents, reassuring them that they were fortunate to have such a saintly son.
Two other masts were contacted at Sahanpur. Baba vomited three times, once before and then after each contact.
Returning exhausted to Najibabad the same night, they slept on the railway station platform. As usual, the mandali took turns keeping watch. During the night, at one point two small urchin boys started walking towards them. Just as Adi held up his hand to motion the boys away, Baba woke up, and, propped on his elbow, waved to the boys to come forward. He permitted them to lie down beside him on his bedding roll, covered them with his arm, and went back to sleep.
The next day, Baba went back to Sahanpur, where he contacted Ghani Baba again and also Kali Kamliwala , before returning to Najibabad.
Previously in Najibabad, a fat, naked mast known as Riyazuddin was contacted beneath a tree. As Baba was bidding farewell, the mast said, " The work is finished." But on this day, when the mast saw Baba, he started running away, and Baba followed after him for three miles. Two hours of pursuit, however, did not change the mast's reluctance to receive the Beloved.
Also contacted in Sahanpur was an old mast, Tula Shah . Baba had coaxed him into a local shop for contact. This amazed the local villagers, because this was the first known occasion during which Tula Shah had ever followed anyone's beckoning.
When Tula Shah saw Baba on a later visit he evaded Baba, similarly to Riyazuddin, by scurrying off into the wilderness outside the village, where he could not be found. So, leaving each mast to his whim, Baba contacted them in an invisible manner.