Guru Arjan DevJi was the first of the two Gurus martyred in the Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth, which later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib.

Born: 15 April 1563 Goindval, Taran Taran district, Mughal Empire (Present day India)
Died: 30 May 1606 (aged 43) Lahore, Mughal Empire (Present day Pakistan)
Resting place: Gurdwara Dera Sahib, Walled City of Lahore
Religion: Sikhism
Spouse: Mata Ganga
Children: Guru Hargobind
Parents: Guru Ram Das and Mata Bhani
Known for: Building the Harmandir Sahib, Founding Taran Taran Sahib city, Compiling the Adi Granth and installing it in Harmandir Sahib, Founding Kartarpur, Jalandhar city, Composing the fifth hymn of Kirtan Sohila, Writing Sukhmani Sahib
Adi Granth

One of the Sikh community disputes following Guru Ram Das was the emergence of new hymns claiming to have been composed by Nanak. According to the faction led by Guru Arjan, these hymns were distorted and fake, with some blaming Prithi Chand and his Sikh faction for having composed and circulated them. The concern and the possibility of wrong propaganda, immoral teachings, and inauthentic Gurbani led Guru Arjan to initiate a major effort to collect, study, approve and compile a written official scripture, and this he called Adi Granth, the first edition of the Sikh scripture by 1604. The composition of both Prithi Chand and his followers have been preserved in the Mina texts of Sikhism, while the mainstream and larger Sikh tradition adopted the Guru Granth Sahib scripture that ultimately emerged from the initiative of Guru Arjan.