Bhai SAHIB SINGH was one of the Panj Piare. He was born the son of Bhai Guru Narayana, a barber of Bidar in Karnataka. His mother's name was Ankamma. Guru Nanak had visited Bidar early in the sixteenth century and a Sikh shrine had been established there in his honour. Sahib Chand, as Sahib Singh was called before he was initiated in the Order of the Khalsa, travelled to Anandpur at the age of 16, and attached himself permanently to Guru Gobind Singh.

He won a name for himself as an extraordinary marksman and in one of the battles at Anandpur he shot dead the Gujjar chief Jamatullah. In another action the Raja of Hindur, Bhup Chand, was seriously wounded by a shot from his musket following which the entire hill army fled the field. Sahib Chand was one of the five Sikhs who, on the Vaisakhi day of 1699, offered, upon Guru Gobind Singh's call, to lay down their lives. They were greeted by the Guru as the five beloved of Waheguru. These five formed the nucleus of the Khalsa, Waheguru's own, inaugurated that day. Sahib Chand, after initiation in the Order of the Khalsa, became Sahib Singh, receiving the surname of Singh common to all members of the Khalsa brotherhood. Bhai Sahib Singh embraced martyrdom in the battle of Chamkaur on 7 December 1705.