{"id":308,"date":"2013-10-31T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2013-10-31T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:01:14","slug":"imam-zafar-ahmad-uthmani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Imam Zafar Ahmad Uthmani"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nImam Zafar Ahmad Uthmani<\/b>\n<\/div>\n

He was the authoritative scholar of the Islamic sciences, the Qur\u2019anic exegete, Hadith expert, jurist, and Sufi, Zafar Ahmad ibn Latif \u2018Uthmani al-Thanawi. He was born the 13th of Rabi\u2019 al-Awwal, 1310 ah. His mother died when he was only three, so his grandmother raised him. She was a righteous woman who had performed the\u00a0hajj.<\/i>\u00a0She raised him well, and he benefited from her rectitude and piety (taqwa).
\nAt the age of five, he began studying and memorizing the Qur\u2019an with the principal reciters. At age seven, he began studying Urdu and Persian, as well as mathematics, with the great scholar and author, Mawlana Muhammad Yasin, the father of Mawlana Mufti Muhammad Shafi\u2019 \u2018Uthmani. Later, he studied the various Islamic sciences with the foremost scholars of India under the direct guidance and supervision of his uncle, Imam Ashraf \u2018Ali al-Thanawi. He gave particular emphasis to Sacred Law (fiqh) and hadith studies, became highly proficient in both, and distinguished above other students by his intellectual ability, and the benefit of his great uncle\u2019s tutelage.
\nAfter gaining his authorization [ij\u0101za<\/i>] in the Islamic sciences, he moved to Saharanpur and attended the had\u012bth classes of the knower of All\u0101h, had\u012bth master and jurist, Mawl\u0101n\u0101 Khal\u012bl Ahmad al-Saharanpuri. Following a period of close study with this great scholar, Mawl\u0101n\u0101 Zafar \u2018Uthm\u0101n\u012b received the Certificate of Completion in Higher Studies in 1328 AH, when he was 18; a certificate only awarded the most brilliant students at such a young age.
\nGiven Mawl\u0101n\u0101 Zafar \u2018Uthm\u0101n\u012b\u2019s talent and intellectual skill, he was appointed teacher at the\u00a0madrasa<\/i>\u00a0in Saharanpur. There he remained for seven years, teaching Sacred Law, fundamentals of jurisprudence [us\u016bl<\/i>], logic, and philosophy. He then moved to Madrasa Imd\u0101d al-\u2018Ul\u016bm in Th\u0101n\u0101 Bh\u0101wan, where he taught all the had\u012bth works on the curriculum. He also taught Qur\u2019\u0101nic exegesis. Being a gifted teacher, a vast number of distinguished scholars graduated under his guidance, and went on to spread sacred knowledge in the lands.
\nAt this point, Im\u0101m Ashraf \u2018Al\u012b al-Th\u0101naw\u012b commissioned him to write I\u2019l\u0101\u2019 al-Sunan, answer legal questions, and teach in his stead. It took Im\u0101m Zafar roughly twenty years to author the eighteen large volumes of the I\u2018l\u0101\u2019 al-Sunan. He also wrote a two-volume preface and added a volume in which he compiled detailed biographies of Im\u0101m Ab\u016b Han\u012bfa, his students, and the scholars of the Hanaf\u012b school, limiting himself to the jurists who were recognized had\u012bth specialists.
\nHe wrote many other great works, both in Arabic and Urdu. These include a large collection of legal verdicts [fat\u0101w\u0101<\/i>], Ahk\u0101m al-Qur\u2019\u0101n, and a legal exegesis [tafs\u012br<\/i>] of the Qur\u2019\u0101n in praise of which scholars and jurists said, \u201cReading it is a lasting blessing; authoring it is like a tremendous feat [fath].\u201d
\nWhen the subcontinent gained independence and India was divided, he moved to Pakistan and became head-teacher at D\u0101r al-\u2018Ul\u016bm, Hyderabad, Sind, benefiting students with his speech, spiritual state, and righteous works.
\nDuring the last years of his life, he remained constant in his remembrance and invocations, despite weak health and sickness. He performed all obligatory prayers in the mosque even though this required extreme physical exertion. In the month of Ramad\u0101n, 1394 ah, he fell very ill and doctors forbade him from fasting. He turned down their advice, saying, \u201cOur master \u2018Abb\u0101s (may Allah be pleased with him) did not leave fasting when he was ninety, and would undergo many hardships to be able to fast.\u201d All\u0101h took his soul that very year. May All\u0101h be well pleased with him.
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