Four days before Bachamai died, she had beautiful visions and saw Baba sitting with her, and sometimes standing by her side. She told her family, "Baba has come, so no one should enter the room. Close all the doors." A day before she died she began loudly crying out his name. On 1 October 1946, an hour before Bachamai died, Naoroji brought Baba's photograph to her. She gazed at it, began taking his name continuously and peacefully passed away.
On 28 September 1946, Baba, Eruch, Kaka and Baidul left Niranjanpur and joined Pendu and Adi in Lahore. The group then traveled to Hyderabad (Sind) by third–class train amidst a tremendous crush of passengers. They arrived early in the morning of the 30th, exhausted by the uncomfortable all-night journey. Nevertheless, Baba contacted seven masts that day, including Zinda Wali , an advanced mast who had lived in an old fort for the past 35 years. He had a small hut there, and was surrounded by a menagerie of pet dogs, cats and birds, which he adored. The mast looked young and robust, but was reputed to be of great age.
Another exceptional mast Baba contacted was Gokul Ananda , said to be 130 years old. The old mast was blind, and his abode was a tiny house on the Rishi Ghat. Gokul was revered and cared for by the local people, who had built a house for him.
Another mast who was also well over 100 years old was Ahmad Ali Shah . He was a high mast who had lain on a bed outside an old fortress in Hyderabad for the past fifteen years. Baba also contacted Mama Mast , an elderly man who enjoyed smoking cigars.
Also on the 30th, Baba contacted another high mast called Juma Mast . Baba remarked that Juma was the kind of mast he needed for his work. Juma was also old and reputed to be approaching 100 years in age. He was revered by a chief officer of the municipality in Hyderabad, who accommodated the mast in his garden house. For many years the mast had sat in the open in all seasons near the bank of the Indus River.
Pir Shah Saiyid was a high mast and, in Baba's words, "the best in Hyderabad."
An elderly man of about 80, Pir Shah was naked except for a lungi, and his hair and beard were dyed orange-red with henna. This saintly man was held in the highest esteem by the people of Hyderabad.