The Fathers and Sons of Deoband (Akabir Ulama e Deoband)
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Asim Ahmad
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About the Book:
In the aftermath of the Uprising of 1857, Deoband rose to prominence as a symbol of defiance to British colonialism. Espousing the tradition of the Waliullahi family, today, the prestigious Darul 'Ulum Deoband seminary boasts thousands of branches within the Subcontinent and hundreds of affiliate institutions (madrasas) worldwide. Many academic works have covered the political, ideological, and historical background of the movement but much remains to be written on the personal lives of the fathers who founded the movement and the sons who propagated its rich legacy for later generations. Among the sons of Deoband, Shaykh ul hadith Muhammad Zakariyya is the leading authority on the Elders of Deoband. In this private correspondence, he offers a closer look into the personal lives of the Elders and how they led their beautiful lives in light of the four pillars of Islam. He suggests that the triumphs of the Deoband thought owe to their piety, taqwa, and selflessness.
The author was born in Kandhela, U.P. India in 1898. He quickly rose to eminence as a hadith master and was crowned the title of Shaykh ul hadith by the muhaddith and his teacher Maulana Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri. He is the author of the twenty-two-volume work Aujaz al-Masalik on the Muwatta' of Imam Malik, al-Kaukab al-Durriy (commentary on Abu Dawud), and numerous other hadith works. As a great Sufi who received authorization from Maulana Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri, he also traveled far and wide to spread the dhikr of Allah and revive the Sunna. From 1965, he established the collective i'tikaf system in Ramadan and personally completed 31 Qur'an every Ramadan. He passed away in Madina Munawwara in 1982 and is buried in Jannat al-Baqi near the graves of the Ahle Bayt.
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About the author
Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi: Shaykh al-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi rahimahullah (1897-1982) was born in Khandhla, Uttar Pradesh, India, into a deeply religious family. He was privately tutored by his father, Shaykh Yahya, in the Islamic sciences and completed the six canonical books of hadith under his instruction. He remained in the company of his shaykh, the hadith master Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri, for seventeen years until the latter's passing in 1927. Together they worked on an eighteen-volume commentary of Abu Dawud; Shaykh Zakariyya later independently composed a twenty-three-volume commentary of Muwatta Imam Malik over a span of thirty years. He began teaching the Islamic sciences at age twenty and taught hadith for 46 years (1923-1969). His other celebrated works include Fada'il al-Amal, Khasa'il-e-Nabawi (a commentary on Shama'il al-Tirmidhi), and al-Abwab wa al-Tarajum (an explanation of the chapters of Sahih al-Bukhari). He was granted spiritual successorship (khilafa) in the Chishti-Sabriyya order.
About the translator
Asim Ahmad: Asim Ahmad was born on April 17, 1975, in Binghamton, New York, where his parents had settled after emigrating from Pakistan in the early 1970s. At the age of twelve, he completed the memorization of the Qur'an in approximately eleven months while studying in Pakistan, before returning to complete his secondary education in the United States. He subsequently pursued a course of traditional Islamic studies. He has served as a teacher of hadith at Darul Uloom al-Madania in Buffalo, New York, one of the leading Deobandi seminaries in North America. As a translator for Madania Publications, he has brought into English a number of significant works from the Deobandi scholarly tradition, including works of Shaykh al-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi. He translated Stories of the Sahaba and The Fathers and Sons of Deoband, introducing readers to pivotal figures of the Deoband movement. He is also the author of the Hajj and Umrah Guide, a comprehensive practical guide to performing Hajj and Umrah that grew from a small personal project into a widely used pilgrim's handbook.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781936157136
Publisher
Madania Publications
Author
Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi
Translator
Asim Ahmad
Year Published
2020
Size
W- | H- | D-
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