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Sanaullah Amritsari

Abul Wafa Sanaullah Amritsari(12 June 1868 – 15 March 1948) was aBritish Indian,laterPakistani,Muslimscholar and a leading figure within theAhl-e-Hadithmovement who was active in the city ofAmritsar,Punjab.He was an alumnus ofMazahir Uloomand theDarul Uloom Deoband.He was a majorantagonistofMirza Ghulam Ahmadand the earlyAhmadiyamovement. He served as the general secretary of the All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-i-Hadith from 1906 to 1947 and was the editor of theAhl-e-Hadees,aweekly magazine.

Sanaullah Amritsari
TitleShaykh al-Islām,Maulana,Sher-e-Punjab[1]
Personal life
Born12 June 1868
Amritsar,Punjab Province,British India (Present day-Amritsar,Punjab,India
Died15 March 1948(1948-03-15)(aged 79)
Sargodha,Punjab,Pakistan
RegionAmritsar,Punjab, British India
Alma mater
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationAhl-i Hadith
Founder ofJamiat Ulama-e-Hind
CreedAthari

Biography

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Sanaullah Amritsari's ancestors hailed fromDoru Shahabad,a town inJammu and Kashmir.He was born in 1868 in Amritsar, where his father had settled permanently.[2]He received his early education at Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar,[3]and later moved toWazirabadto study hadith under Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi.[4]He then studied withSyed Nazir Hussainin Delhi.[5][6]He joinedMazahir Uloomfor higher education and thereafter completed his studies atDarul Uloom Deoband,where his teachers includedMahmud Hasan Deobandi.[7][8][5]He had joined the Deoband seminary in 1890 to study logic, philosophy and Fiqh.[8]He subsequently attended the lectures of Aḥmad Ḥasan at the Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam, inKanpur.[9]

Amritsari started his career with teaching at his alma mater Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar, in 1893, and taught the books ofDars-i Nizami.[9]He then became the director of education at the Madrasa Islamiyyah inMaler Kotla.[9]He subsequently stepped into polemics and began debating the proponents ofArya Samajand speciallyAhmadism.[10]He established Ahl-e-Hadith Press in 1903 and published a weekly journalAhl-e-Hadithwhich continued for about 44 years.[8]He was a leading figure of theAhl-e-Hadithmovement and served as the general secretary of All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-Hadith from 1906 to 1947.[3][4]He co-founded theJamiat Ulama-e-Hindand had a rank of major general in Junud-e-Rabbania.[8]He was president of Anjuman Ahl-e-Hadith Punjab.[7]He was given the titleSher-e-Punjabfor his services to Islam in Punjab.[8]

Amritsari migrated toGujranwala,PakistanafterPartition of Indiain 1947 and died on 15 March 1948 inSargodha.[8]

Literary works

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Amritsari wrote pamphlets and books mostly in the refutation ofMirza Ghulam Ahmad.[11]Syed Mehboob Rizwihas mentionedTafsir al-Quran be-Kalam al-Rahman,Tafsir-e-SanaiandTaqabul-e-Salasaas his important works.[8]

WhenRangila Rasulwas written on Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sanaullah Amritsari wroteMuqaddas Rasoolas a reply to that book.[12]

He also wrote the book "Haq Prakash"in answer toDayananda Saraswati's book "Satyarth Prakash".

Legacy

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  • Faz̤lurraḥmān bin Muḥammad wroteHazrat Maulana Sanaullah Amritsari.[13]
  • Abdul Majid Sohdri wroteSeerat Sanai.

See also

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^"Biography of Shaykh Al-Islam Thanaullah Amritsari".Umm-ul-Qura Publications.3 April 2017.Archivedfrom the original on 15 January 2020.
  2. ^Ahmad 2019,p. 89.
  3. ^abJaffrelot, Christophe; Louer, Laurence (15 January 2018).Pan-Islamic Connections: Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-091160-7.
  4. ^ab"Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Hind".Archivedfrom the original on 12 October 2017.
  5. ^abTijarwi 2020,p. 59.
  6. ^Adil Hussain Khan (2015).From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia.Indiana University Press. p. 31.ISBN978-0253015297.
  7. ^abDeobandi, Syed Muhammad Miyan."Sanaullah Molvi".Silk Letters Movement(PDF).Translated by Muhammadullah Qasmi.Darul Uloom Deoband:Shaikhul Hind Academy. p. 208.Retrieved11 May2020.
  8. ^abcdefgRizwi 1981,p. 45-46.
  9. ^abcAhmad 2019,p. 90.
  10. ^Ahmad 2019,pp. 90–91.
  11. ^Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi (2007).Challenges to Religions and Islam: A Study of Muslim Movements, Personalities, Issues and Trends.Sarup & Sons. p. 987.ISBN978-81-7625-732-9.
  12. ^"Muqaddas Rasool SanaUllah Amritsari Urdu Book".dokumen.tips(in Uzbek).Retrieved23 June2021.
  13. ^Faz̤lurraḥmān bin Muḥammad. (11 February 1988).Hazrat Maulana Sanaullah Amritsari.Archivedfrom the original on 11 February 2018 – via Hathi Trust.

Bibliography

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  • Adrawi, Asir(April 2016).Karwān-e-Rafta: Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind[The Caravan of the Past: Discussing Indian scholars] (in Urdu) (2nd ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen.
  • Rizwi, Syed Mehboob(1981). "Maulana Sana Allah Amritsari".History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband.Vol. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi. Idara-e-Ehtemam,Dar al-Ulum Deoband.pp. 45–46.
  • Tijarwi, Muhammad Mushtaq (2020).Fuzala-e-Deoband ki Qur'ānī Khidmāt.Aligarh: Brown Book Publications. pp. 59–65.
  • Ahmad, Abrar (2019). "Tafsīr Thanā'ī by Sanaullah Amritsari". In Ab. Majeed, Nazeer Ahmad (ed.).Quran Interpretation in Urdu: A Critical Study.New Delhi: Viva Books. pp. 89–101.
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