Al-Arba'in (Collection of Forty Hadiths) of Shah Wali Allah ad-Dihlawi
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Safaruk Zaman Chowdhury
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About The Book
In this collection, the great eighteenth century Hadith master, Shah Wali Allah, transmits forty hadith that he heard directly from his teacher, Sheikh Abu Tahir al-Madani, with an uninterrupted chain of transmission through Imam al-Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him).
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About the author
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi: Shah Wali Allah Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahim al-Dihlawi rahimahullah (1114-1176 AH / 1703-1762 CE) stands as one of the most towering figures in the intellectual history of Islam in the Indian subcontinent. Born in the Dihlawi scholarly tradition, he traced his lineage to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and received his primary education in hadith and Islamic sciences under his father, Shah Abd al-Rahim. As a young man he traveled to the Hijaz and spent approximately fourteen months in Makka and Madina pursuing advanced studies with the leading scholars of the two holy cities, most notably Shaykh Abu Tahir al-Kurdi al-Madani, through whom he transmitted the hadiths in his 'Al-Arba'in.' He returned to Delhi and devoted the rest of his life to scholarship and teaching, producing approximately fifty works in Arabic, Persian, and related disciplines. These include 'Hujjat Allah al-Baligha,' his most celebrated work synthesizing hadith and jurisprudence; an early Persian translation of the Qur'an; works on Islamic legal methodology; and treatises on Sufi metaphysics. His scholarship bridged the hadith tradition and rational Islamic sciences, leaving an enduring legacy that shaped subsequent generations of Indian Muslim scholarship.
About the translator
Safaruk Zaman Chowdhury: Dr. Safaruk Zaman Chowdhury is a British Muslim scholar whose work spans Islamic theology, Sufism, metaphysics, and philosophy. He studied philosophy at King's College London, receiving the Associate of King's College (AKC) award, before traveling to Cairo to complete the traditional Islamic sciences curriculum at al-Azhar University. Returning to the United Kingdom, he earned his MA with distinction at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, followed by a PhD in Islamic Studies with a specialism in Sufism from the same institution. His research interests encompass paraconsistent logic, metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology as articulated within the classical Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly within kalam theology. He is affiliated with Cambridge Muslim College, Whitethread Institute in London, and serves as a faculty member at the Ibn Rushd Centre for Excellence for Islamic Research in Birmingham; he has also served as Academic Director at the Centre of Islamic Knowledge (CIK) in Canada. He is lead researcher on Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theology, a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation in association with Cambridge Muslim College and Aziz Foundation. Among his authored works is Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (AUC Press, 2021) and A Sufi Apologist of Nishapür: The Life and Thought of Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (2019). His translations include three volumes in Turath Publishing's Al-Arba'in series: the Forty Hadiths of Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi, the Forty Hadiths on the Excellence of the Qur'an by Mulla Ali al-Qari, and the Forty Hadiths on Loving the Noble Family of the Prophet ﷺ by Muhammad ibn Jafar al-Kattani.
About the commentator
Marcia Hermansen: Dr. Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies Program and Professor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches courses in Islamic Studies and the academic study of religion. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In the course of her research and language training she lived for extended periods in Egypt, Jordan, India, Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan, and she conducts research in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu as well as the major European languages. Her books include Shah Wali Allah's Treatises on Islamic Law (Fons Vitae, 2010) and The Conclusive Argument from God, a study and translation from Arabic of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi's Hujjat Allah al-Baligha (Brill, 1996). She served as an associate editor of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (2003) and has contributed numerous academic articles to the field of Islamic Studies.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9780954738068
Publisher
Turath Publishing
Author
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
Pages
48
Translator
Safaruk Zaman Chowdhury
Commentator
Nemat Ullah Sindhi and Marcia Hermansen
Year Published
2015
Size
W- | H- | D-
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