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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 major opponent ofMirza Ghulam Ahmadand the earlyAhmadiyamovement and made aMubahala(a promise that God would curse the liar between them) with Mirza Ghulam, which he won, due to Ghulam's death one year after the oath. 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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