About five hundred metres east of the old fort, on the high bank of a dried branch of the river Ravi, stands the Shrine of Shah Shams Tabrez (Syed Shams-ud-Din Sabzwari), the third of Multan's great Sufi tombs after Rukn-e-Alam and Bahauddin Zakariya. The saint, a Persian-born missionary of the Ismaili community, died in 1276 AD. The original tomb was built by his grandson around 1330 and substantially rebuilt in 1718.
The mausoleum is smaller and squarer than the two on the fort mound — a thirty-foot cube topped by a single shallow dome — but the surface tilework is among the most exuberant in the city, in deep cobalt and turquoise with bands of yellow and white. The shrine is the focus of an active Ismaili community in Multan and is best visited on Thursday evenings when devotional qawwali singing fills the courtyard.