Hadhrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi: His Life and Works

Contents
Foreword ........................................................... xix
By Hadhrat Moulana Ibraaheem Pandor Saahib (db) ....... xix
By Hadhrat Mufti Ebraaheem Salehjee Saahib (db) .......... xxi
Introduction ................................................... xxiii
Chapter 1 .............................................................. 1
Background and Upbringing .................................................... 1
Hadhrat’s Grandfather .............................................................. 1
Hadhrat’s Father ........................................................................ 1
Participating in wedding ceremonies .................................................. 2
Taqwa and Precaution ............................................................................ 2
Hadhrat’s mother ....................................................................... 3
Hadhrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Saahib (RA) ........................ 3
Glad tidings .............................................................................................. 3
Bismillah ................................................................................................... 4
Primary Madrasah ................................................................................... 4
Hifzul Qur’aan ......................................................................................... 4
Studying Faarsi (Persian) ....................................................................... 5
Living in Nithor ....................................................................................... 5
Studies in Mazaahirul Uloom................................................................ 5
Darul Uloom Deoband ........................................................................... 5

Back in Mazaahirul Uloom .................................................................... 5
Contentment and preference to others ............................................... 5
Trust in Allah Ta’ala ............................................................................... 6
Student days ............................................................................................. 6
Enthusiasm and zeal ............................................................................... 6
Travelling by foot .................................................................................... 6
Recitation of Qur’aan on journey ........................................................ 7
Punctuality on lessons ............................................................................ 7
Asaatiza ..................................................................................................... 7
Asaatiza at Darul ‘Uloom Deoband ..................................................... 8
Chapter 2 .............................................................. 9
Hadhrat’s Tutors and Seniors .................................................. 9
Brief Biography of Hadhrat Moulana Sayyid Husain Ahmad Madani (RA) ................................................................ 10
Connection with Hadhrat Moulana Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi (RA) .......................................................................................................... 11
Children ................................................................................................... 11
Service to Hadhrat Sheikhul Hind (RA) ............................................ 11
Obedience to his elders......................................................................... 12
Kindness to his brothers ....................................................................... 13
No Sleep for eleven nights ................................................................... 13
Hadhrat Madani (RA) and Hadhrat Moulana Shabeer Ahmad Uthmaani (RA) ....................................................................................... 13
A Bribe from the British ...................................................................... 13
Salaah ....................................................................................................... 14
Humility .................................................................................................. 14
Hospitality............................................................................................... 14
Desire for Shahaadat ............................................................................. 15
Demise ..................................................................................................... 15
Chapter 3 ............................................................ 17
Bay’t and Sulook ...................................................................... 17
In search of a Sheikh ............................................................... 17
Brief biography of Hadhrat Sheikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (RA) ......................................................................... 18