{"id":2993,"date":"2014-11-25T06:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2014-11-25T06:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:04:53","slug":"services-indian-%ca%bfulama-bukhari-studies-timely-contribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"Services of the Indian \u02bfUlam\u0101 to Bukh\u0101ri Studies: A Timely Contribution."},"content":{"rendered":"

Services of the Indian \u02bfUlam\u0101 to<\/strong> Bukh\u0101ri Studies: A Timely Contribution.<\/strong>\"images<\/a>
\nby HADRAT MAULANA DR. KHAL\u012aL AL-RA\u1e24M\u0100N SAJJ\u0100D NU\u02bfM\u0100NI[2]
\nABSTRACT [1]: The Indian Subcontinent has been an important center of Hadith sciences in the Muslim world throughout history. This article focuses on two Indian Hadith scholars who made tremendous contributions to the study of the most celebrated book of Hadith ever, \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri. The first scholar, Hadrat Maulana A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri, published the first printed edition of the book in history using early printing technologies. The second scholar, Hadrat Maulana Dr. Taq\u012b al-D\u012bn al-Nadwi al-Ma\u1e93\u0101hiri, carried Hadrat Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri\u2019s work into the modern age with a new edition that has been published in recent times.
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\nEven as early as the era of Prophethood, the rays of Prophetic Light had already begun to fall upon Indian soil. Then, later, during the caliphate of \u02bfUmar al-F\u0101r\u016bq, the Muslims started bringing the message of taw\u1e25\u012bd from Arabia to Sindh. Among those who arrived were the two Companions \u1e24akam b. Abi \u2018l-\u02bf\u0100\u1e63 al-Thaqafi and Mugh\u012brah b. Abi \u2018l-\u02bf\u0100\u1e63 al-Thaqafi. Their brother, \u02bfUthm\u0101n b. Abi \u2018l-\u02bf\u0100\u1e63 al-Thaqafi, had been appointed by \u02bfUmar as governor of Bahrain and Oman, and during his rule he dispatched expeditions to the Indian port cities of Thane, Bharuch, and Debal. Indeed, according to \u02bfAll\u0101mah Ibn \u1e24azam, \u02bfUthm\u0101n al-Thaqafi himself actually graced these three places with his blessed presence. Then later, during the caliphates of \u02bfUthm\u0101n, \u02bfAl\u012b, and Mu\u02bf\u0101wiyah (May Allah be pleased with them), the attention of the Caliphate was still directed toward India, for \u1e24\u0101fi\u1e93 Ibn Kath\u012br has clearly written:
\n\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u062d\u0627\u0628\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0632\u0645\u0646 \u0639\u0645\u0631 \u0648\u0639\u062b\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0641\u062a\u062d\u0648\u0627 \u0623\u0648\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u0627\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0647\u0646\u062f
\nDuring the time of \u02bfUmar and \u02bfUthm\u0101n, the noble Companions conquered the periphery of India. [3]
\nIf we accept the arrival of the noble Companions as fact, then it is no surprise that the t\u0101bi\u02bf\u012bn and the atb\u0101\u02bf al-t\u0101bi\u02bf\u012bn must have come in large numbers; some of them must also lie buried in the dust of this land.
\n\u1e24\u0101fi\u1e93 Ibn Kath\u012br writes regarding General Mu\u1e25ammad b. Q\u0101sim and the armies sent by the Umayyad Caliphs:
\n\u0648\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0641\u064a \u0639\u0633\u0627\u0643\u0631\u0647\u0645 \u0648\u062c\u064a\u0648\u0634\u0647\u0645 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0632\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0648\u0646 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u064a\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0621 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0627\u0628\u0639\u064a\u0646 \u0645\u0646 \u0643\u0644 \u062c\u064a\u0634 \u0645\u0646\u0647\u0645 \u0634\u0631\u0630\u0645\u0629 \u0639\u0638\u064a\u0645\u0629 \u064a\u0646\u0635\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0647 \u0628\u0647\u0627\u062f\u064a\u062a\u0647
\nAnd within each army and battalion a large group of righteous individuals, saints, and scholars from among the senior t\u0101bi\u02bf\u012bnwould be positioned. And it was especially by way of [their blessings] that Allah would grant victory. [4]
\nAmong the blessed senior t\u0101bi\u02bf\u012bn and atb\u0101\u02bf al-t\u0101bi\u02bf\u012bn who\u2019s coming to India is established, a few names are noteworthy:
\nSa\u02bfd b. Hish\u0101m al-An\u1e63\u0101ri, the first cousin of Anas b. M\u0101lik;
\nRab\u012b\u02bf b. \u1e62ab\u012b\u1e25 al-Sa\u02bfd\u012b;
\nIsr\u0101\u2019\u012bl b. M\u016bs\u0101 al-Ba\u1e63ri
\nThrough the blessings of these honorable personalities, India was illuminated by the light of Islamic knowledge from the very beginning, especially the knowledge of Hadith. Indeed, when one Arab traveler from Jerusalem, Abu \u2018l-Q\u0101sim al-Maqdisi, came to India in the fourth century Hijr\u012b, he wrote enthusiastically about how he had seen that the study of Hadith had spread far and wide throughout the region of Sindh.
\nDuring this period, even the native inhabitants of India and Sindh had begun to produce great scholars of Hadith, some of whom even attained the honor of being considered t\u0101bi\u02bf\u012b and t\u0101bi\u02bf al-t\u0101bi\u02bf\u012b. Furthermore, prominent Hadith scholars from around the Muslim world came to India in the fourth and fifth centuries in order to acquire knowledge for themselves, and during their stay they benefitted the local students with their own knowledge as well. Some examples of these great personalities that came to India for the sake of knowledge of Hadith are as follows:
\nFrom Andalusia in the fourth century Hijr\u012b, the famous Hadith master Abu Bakr Mu\u1e25ammad b. Mu\u02bf\u0101wiyah b. \u02bfAbd al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-Andal\u016bsi al-Marwazi al-Qur\u1e6dubi (d. 358 AH);
\nFrom Sijist\u0101n, the great scholar and Hadith master Abu A\u1e25mad Khalaf b. A\u1e25mad b. Khalaf b. Layth al-Farqadsajzi (d. 399 AH);
\nThe renowned exegete, Hadith master, and spiritual teacher Shaykh Abu \u02bfUthm\u0101n al-\u1e62\u0101b\u016bni (d. 449 AH);
\nThe renowned Hadith master from N\u012bsh\u0101p\u016br \u1e24\u0101fi\u1e93 Abu \u2018l-\u1e24asan al-N\u012bsh\u0101p\u016bri;
\nThe sixth century Andalusian Hadith master, Abu \u2018l-\u1e24asan Sa\u02bfd al-An\u1e63\u0101ri (d. 541 AH).
\nOn one hand, knowledge of Hadith remained in vogue throughout India. On the other hand, scholars that came through the Khyber Pass brought rational sciences, jurisprudence, and legal theory, whose study became very widespread as well. Later on there came a time when, by Allah\u2019s decree, the very center of Islam\u2019s reformation and revival transferred to India [from the Arab lands]. During this time, at the hands of Shaykh \u02bfAbd al-\u1e24aq Mu\u1e25addith Dehlawi (d. 1052 AH), a new age began in the study of Hadith, and much contribution was made towards its instruction, publication, and research. After him, at the hands of Imam Wal\u012bull\u0101h, his descendants, and intellectual heirs, India provided such services to the science of Hadith that even the scholars of the Arab world had to admit that in this age, the greatest service to the science of Hadith had been performed by the scholars of India.
\nOf all the branches of the blessed Wal\u012bull\u0101hi tree that have spread across the width and breadth of this country, perhaps the most fruitful and evergreen branch is the one that blossomed out of the towns of Deoband and Sah\u0101ranp\u016br, those blessed regions from which an outpouring of benefit spread throughout the world. Were one to make a record of the contributions of its Hadith scholars, even an abridged version would be quite lengthy. In this very brief article, the author intends to reveal a recent contribution to the science of Hadith, the credit for which goes to the Hadith scholars associated with those blessed districts.
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\nThe most famous and respected book of Hadith is \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri, and it is no secret among the people of knowledge that the honor of printing it for the very first time belongs to [a scholar who was] a branch from the celebrated Wal\u012bull\u0101hian tree: \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri. He was the student of Sh\u0101h Mu\u1e25ammad Is\u1e25\u0101q Dehlawi, who himself was the maternal grandson of Sh\u0101h \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz Dehlawi. A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri was the first person, not only in India but the entire world, to publish \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri in printed form (note that before this, all existing manuscripts of \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri were handwritten). Not only did he publish \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101riin printed form, he also included with it a marginal commentary of such quality that great scholars have viewed it as an exemplary synopsis of all the most famous commentaries prior. Therefore, through the efforts of \u1e24a\u1e0drat Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri, a printed version of\u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri came before students of Prophetic knowledge for the first time ever \u2013 the first volume in 1851 and the second volume in 1853. It should be remembered that it was not until ten years later that printing of \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri began in Egypt.
\nWe can glean the passion that \u1e24a\u1e0drat A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri had for the knowledge of Hadith from the fact that even before the publishing of \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri, he had published Sunan al-Tirmidhifrom the printing press that he had established, along with his own marginal commentary. In the same year that he printed the first volume of \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri in 1851, he also published \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Muslimalong with its commentary by Imam al-Nawawi. Within a few years of that, he also published such important works as the following, with the total number of his works amounting to forty.
\nSunan Ab\u012b D\u0101w\u016bd,
\nMishk\u0101t al-Ma\u1e63\u0101b\u012bh (with his own marginal commentary),
\nMuwa\u1e6d\u1e6da Imam M\u0101lik,
\n\u1e24i\u1e63n al-\u1e24a\u1e63\u012bn,
\nTaqr\u012bb al-Tahdh\u012bb,
\nRis\u0101lat al-Jurj\u0101ni,
\nThe Muqaddimah of Shaykh \u02bfAbd al-\u1e24aq,
\nIrsh\u0101d al-S\u0101r\u012b
\nWhen trying to glean how overflowingly blessed the personality of \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana A\u1e25mad \u02bfAli Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri truly was, aside from looking at his services to research and publishing, we can also take a look at the names of some of his great students, such as the likes of
\nSayyid al-\u1e6c\u0101\u2019ifah (The Leader of the Company) \u1e24\u0101j\u012b Imd\u0101dull\u0101h Muh\u0101jir Makk\u012b,
\n\u1e24ujjat al-Isl\u0101m (The Proof of Islam) Mu\u1e25ammad Q\u0101sim N\u0101n\u014dtwi,
\nMu\u1e25addith-i Zam\u0101nah (Hadith Master of the Age) Rash\u012bd A\u1e25mad Gang\u014dhi,
\nMu\u1e25ammad Am\u012bn \u1e24asani Na\u1e63\u012br\u0101b\u0101di,
\nMu\u1e25ammad Ya\u02bfq\u016bb Gang\u014dhi,
\n\u02bfAll\u0101mah Shibl\u012b Nu\u02bfm\u0101ni,
\nMu\u1e25ammad \u02bfAl\u012b M\u014dng\u0113ri,
\nSal\u0101matull\u0101h J\u012br\u0101jp\u016bri.
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\nThe scholars and servants of Hadith will be able to appreciate just how arduous and delicate the task of printing a book like \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri for the first time must have been. It involved searching for the most authentic copies among all the handwritten manuscripts of\u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri available at the time. Then each and every word of those manuscripts had to be examined critically and compared to all the other manuscripts. What level of meticulousness in knowledge, and how many long and hard hours of effort and exertion this must have required?
\nAll the scholars of Hadith throughout the Muslim world recognize that out of all the copies of \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri, the copy that \u1e24a\u1e0drat A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri presented to the Muslim world is the most authentic and respected. This is because he had two special manuscripts in front of him. One was the manuscript of the great seventh-century Hadith master Imam al-\u1e62agh\u0101ni, which is considered by Hadith scholars to be a very authentic manuscript of\u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri because it is identical to the version that was certified by Imam Bukh\u0101ri\u2019s direct student, Imam al-Farbari.
\nThe other manuscript was that of his teacher, Sh\u0101h Mu\u1e25ammad Is\u1e25\u0101q Dehlaw\u012b, which was actually a copy of the manuscript of his maternal grandfather Sh\u0101h \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz Dehlawi. Furthermore, Sh\u0101h \u02bfAbd al-\u02bfAz\u012bz Dehlawi\u2019s manuscript actually belonged to his famous father, Sh\u0101h Wal\u012bull\u0101h Dehlawi. That manuscript\u2019s most unique quality was that it was a copy of the manuscript of the great Hadith master of the twelfth century \u1e24ijri, \u02bfAbdull\u0101h b. S\u0101lim al-Ba\u1e63ri. This scholar spent twenty years of his life exerting himself in the study of the manuscript of the eighth century scholar Imam \u02bfAll\u0101mah Sharaf al-D\u012bn Abu \u2018l-\u1e24asan \u02bfAl\u012b al-Yun\u012bni, which was unanimously considered to be the most authentic manuscript at the time. After conducting comparative research and examination of each and every word, he [al-Ba\u1e63ri] prepared his own manuscript.
\nIncidentally, it should be remembered that Sh\u0101h Wal\u012bull\u0101h Dehlawi had the honor of having only one intermediary between himself and Shaykh S\u0101lim b. \u02bfAbdill\u0101h al-Ba\u1e63ri [i.e. the son of the aforementioned \u02bfAbdull\u0101h b. S\u0101lim] in the chain of knowledge. This is because Sh\u0101h Wal\u012bull\u0101h\u2019s teachers included Shaykh Mu\u1e25ammad Af\u1e93al Si\u0101lk\u014dti and Shaykh Abu \u1e6c\u0101hir al-Kurdi, both of whom were outstanding students of Shaykh S\u0101lim b. \u02bfAbdill\u0101h al-Ba\u1e63ri. Furthermore, Sh\u0101h Wal\u012bull\u0101h also acquired knowledge from the son of Shaykh S\u0101lim al-Ba\u1e63ri.
\nIn any case, these were the two authentic copies of \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101rithat Maulana A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri used as models in preparing his own manuscript. Aside from that, he also consulted other well-regarded manuscripts. And through this exhaustive research and effort, he presented this most important book in Hadith studies to the Muslim world.
\nSo may Allah reward him with the best reward that He bestows upon His righteous servants.
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\nUntil today, this old edition of \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri that \u1e24a\u1e0drat A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri prepared has continued to be published in this Subcontinent of ours. It was written in the old style, with its lithographic printing, cryptic symbols between the lines, and the running marginal commentary written in Persian font across three directions of each page. Our senior scholars were, of course, were quite at ease using books written in this sort of formatting. For the new generation of scholars, however, it was becoming harder and harder, and as for scholars in the Arab world, for them it was even more difficult. It was necessary for this great book to be presented in a modern format. The honor of this task went to our country\u2019s outstanding Hadith scholar, \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Dr. Taq\u012b al-D\u012bn al-Nadwi al-Ma\u1e93\u0101hiri (May Allah preserve him). After years of hard work, he came out with an edition that was beautiful to behold to be presented before students of Prophetic knowledge all around the Muslim world. However, he did much more than merely updating the book\u2019s format. Rather, he rendered numerous valuable enhancements and services to the book on many levels. For example:
\nWhatever sources \u1e24a\u1e0drat A\u1e25mad \u02bfAl\u012b Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri had consulted when preparing his original manuscript and marginal notes, Dr. Taq\u012b al-D\u012bn Nadwi has actually gone back and analyzed those sources. And wherever errors had crept into the various editions printed by the later publishers, he pointed these errors out. In order to conduct this meticulous analysis, he mentions in his introduction that he benefitted greatly from the work al-Ta\u1e63w\u012bb\u0101t li M\u0101 F\u012b \u1e24aw\u0101sh\u012b al-Bukh\u0101ri min al-Ta\u1e63\u1e25\u012bf\u0101t, the author of which was another Indian Hadith scholar, \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana \u02bfAbd al-Jabb\u0101r al-A\u02bf\u1e93ami (the student of the great Hadith master \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana \u1e24ab\u012bb al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n al-A\u02bf\u1e93ami).
\nHe compared \u1e24a\u1e0drat Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri\u2019s manuscript with other copies, particularly the one that was commissioned by the Ottoman Caliph, Sultan \u02bfAbd al-\u1e24am\u012bd II, which a committee of sixteen scholars from al-Azhar had prepared after having compared several old manuscripts. Dr. Taq\u012b al-D\u012bn Nadwi also compared the original handwritten manuscripts of \u1e24adrat \u02bfAbdull\u0101h b. S\u0101lim Ba\u1e63ri and Imam al-\u1e62agh\u0101ni in the same way.
\nIf the original text contained any portions that needed correction or explanation, he consulted however many necessary books and provided references for them.
\nFor each hadith, he has also taken care to point out where it has been recorded in other books. He has also meticulously noted in which other places in his book Imam Bukhari has narrated any other chains of that same hadith.
\nHe made use of the explanations of two great Hadith masters of India: \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Rash\u012bd A\u1e25mad Gang\u014dhi and Shaykh al- \u1e24ad\u012bth \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Zakariyy\u0101.
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\n\u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Taq\u012b al-D\u012bn al-Nadwi al-Ma\u1e93\u0101hiri (may Allah preserve him) needs no introduction within the circles of knowledge not just in the Subcontinent, but even around the Muslim world. Several of his papers can be found in the archives of Al-Furq\u0101n Journal. From the very beginning, he had earned the trust of my honorable father \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Mu\u1e25ammad Man\u1e93\u016br Nu\u02bfm\u0101ni as well as the trust of \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Sayyid Abu \u2018l-\u1e24asan \u02bfAl\u012b al-Nadwi. After acquiring knowledge from D\u0101r al-\u02bfUl\u016bm Nadwat al-\u02bfUlam\u0101, he also taught Hadith there. He also served as Shaykh al- \u1e24ad\u012bth at Gujurat\u2019s famous center of learning, D\u0101r al-\u02bfUl\u016bm Fal\u0101\u1e25-i D\u0101rayn in Tadkesar. But perhaps his greatest good fortune was that he gained bountiful intellectual and spiritual benefit from Shaykh al-\u1e24ad\u012bth \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Mu\u1e25ammad Zakariyy\u0101. And it is surely from the blessing of this very interaction that long before his abovementioned work on \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25 Bukh\u0101ri, he had already presented the Islamic world with numerous scholarly texts that he edited, enhanced with exhaustive Hadith research, and published in beautiful editions that are a pleasure to behold. Among these edited works of his are the following:
\nMaulana Khal\u012bl A\u1e25mad Sah\u0101ranp\u016bri\u2019s famous book, Badhl al-Majh\u016bd, a commentary of Sunan Ab\u016b D\u0101w\u016bd;
\nShaykh al-Hadith Maulana Mu\u1e25ammad Zakariyy\u0101\u2019s valuable work, Awjaz al-Mas\u0101lik, a commentary on the Muwa\u1e6d\u1e6da of Imam M\u0101lik;
\nMaulana \u02bfAbd al-\u1e24ayy Lakhnawi Farangi Ma\u1e25alli\u2019s outstanding work, al-Ta\u02bfl\u012bq al-Mumajjad, a commentary of the Muwa\u1e6d\u1e6da of Imam Mu\u1e25ammad;
\nand [also by Maulana \u02bfAbd al-\u1e24ayy Lakhnawi Farangi Ma\u1e25alli]\u1e92afar al-Am\u0101ni, a commentary of the Mukhta\u1e63ar of Imam al-Jurj\u0101ni.
\nDr. Taq\u012b al-D\u012bn Nadwi is special in that he also completed a doctorate in the science of Hadith from the University of al-Azhar, and he has taught in the universities of the United Arab Emirates for more than thirty years, where he is among the senior-most authorities in Hadith, a teacher of teachers. I do not know how many Arab scholars must have graduated as his students. Beyond the academic circles, word frequently reaches us of how he is respected even within government circles. Nevertheless, he considers it the most valuable accomplishment that his relationship with his teachers and shaykhs from Nadwah, Sah\u0101ranp\u016br, and Deoband remains as that of a humble servant. His accomplishments are the topic of praise in every gathering, and yet he is the embodiment of the verse of poetry:
\n\u067e\u06cc\u0648\u0633\u062a\u06c1 \u0631\u06c1 \u0634\u062c\u0631 \u0633\u06d2 \u060c \u0627\u0645\u06cc\u062f \u0628\u06c1\u0627\u0631 \u0631\u06a9\u06be
\nRemain attached to the tree and have Spring\u2019s expectation!
\nAfter having said all this, I cannot help but mention that along with having achieved this lofty status in knowledge and research, he had from the very beginning of his life felt the need to develop himself in matters of the heart. He wanted to acquire spiritual pleasure, longing for the Divine, and a deep love for Allah. Therefore he would present himself before the People of Allah in the garb of a humble servant. Was amount of benefit that he received in Sah\u0101ranp\u016br very little? Nevertheless, he still sought a cure for his spiritual heart at the Market of Gnosis of the Knower of Allah, \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Mu\u1e25ammad A\u1e25mad \u1e62\u0101\u1e25ib Prat\u0101bgarhi with such persistence that he honored him with ij\u0101zat and khil\u0101fat. And now for the past few years he has also received the special attention and love of the Blessing of the Age, \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi Mujaddidi (May Allah prolong his blessings).
\nI pray that Allah Most High bestows blessing in the life of the honorable Maulana, and may He make his children, grandchildren, students, and admirers all inheritors of his special qualities. And may He grant all of his services, and especially this particular service to \u1e62a\u1e25\u012bh Bukh\u0101ri, a complete and total Acceptance.
\nI, the humble writer, congratulate from the bottom of my heart the Had\u012bth master of India, \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Taq\u012b al-D\u012bn Nadwi Ma\u1e93\u0101hiri (May Allah preserve him), on this recent magnificent service of his to the science of Prophetic Hadith. I welcome it while reciting a verse of poetry:
\n\u0645\u0624\u0630\u0646 \u0645\u0631\u062d\u0628\u0627 \u0628\u0631\u0648\u0642\u062a \u0628\u0648\u0644\u0627 \u062a\u0631\u06cc \u0622\u0648\u0627\u0632 \u0645\u06a9\u06d2 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0645\u062f\u06cc\u0646\u06d2
\nThe muezzin timely called out: Hail!,
\nMay your voice reach Makkah and Mad\u012bnah.
\n[1] This is an English translation by Shoaib A. Rasheed of the original Urdu article, \u201c\u02bfUlama-i Hind K\u012b \u1e24ad\u012bth\u012b Khidm\u0101t M\u0113n Ayk Waq\u012b\u02bf Aur Kh\u016bb\u1e63\u016brat I\u1e0d\u0101fah,\u201d (A Timely and Beautiful Addition in the Indian Scholars\u2019 Services To \u1e24ad\u012bth) in Al-Furq\u0101n Monthly Journal, Lucknow, p. 47-53, vol 80, issue 12, December 2012\/Muharram 1434. The translator would like to acknowledge his grandfather Abdul Rahim, as well as Mujtaba and Saadia Husaini for their abundant help.
\n[2] \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Dr. Khal\u012bl al-Ra\u1e25m\u0101n Sajj\u0101d Nu\u02bfm\u0101ni (b. 1955) is a well-respected Indian Islamic scholar and educator. He is the editor of Al-Furqan Monthly Journal and the head of the charitable, educational, and research organization, Rahman Foundation. He is involved in interfaith dialogue, and an insightful writer on social and political issues. \u1e24a\u1e0drat Sajj\u0101d Nu\u02bfm\u0101ni was raised under the guidance of his illustrious father \u1e24a\u1e0drat Maulana Mu\u1e25ammad Manz\u016br Nu\u02bfm\u0101ni. He acquired sacred knowledge at D\u0101r al-\u02bfUl\u016bm Nadwat al-\u02bfUlam\u0101 in Lucknow, and at D\u0101r al-\u02bfUl\u016bm Deoband, and received a doctorate in Quranic studies from the Islamic University of Madinah. Apart from his academic achievements, he was guided along the path of Tasawwuf by \u1e24a\u1e0drat P\u012br Zulfiqar Ahmad, who subsequently granted him khil\u0101fah (authorization) in the Naqshbandi order. He holds regular spiritual gatherings at the Kh\u0101nqah-i Nu\u02bfm\u0101niyyah Mujaddidiyyah.
\n[3] Al-Bid\u0101yah wa \u2018l-Nih\u0101yah, Volume 1, Page 87
\n[4] Ibid
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