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List Of Hanafis
The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed the Hanafi Islamic madhab followed by the section of Contemporary living Hanafi scholars, in chronological order: *Abu Hanifa (d. 767) *Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797) *Abu Yusuf (d. 798) *Muhammad al-Shaybani (d. 805) *Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani (d. 827) * Yahya ibn Ma'in (d. 847) *Al-Hassaf (d. 874) *Al-Tahawi (d. 933) *Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 944) * Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983) *Abul Ikhlas Hasan ibn `Ammar ibn `Ali al Shurunbulali al Wafa'i (d. 1069) * Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090) * Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 1100) * Yusuf Hamadani (d. 1141) *Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 1142) * Al-Kasani (d. 1191) *Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 1197) *Abu Tawwama (d. 1300) * Uthman Siraj ad-Din (d. 1357) * Ala al-Haq (1301-1384) *Ibn Abi al-Izz (1331-1390) *Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416) *Badr al-Din al-Ayni (d. 1451) *Ibn Kemal (d. 1536) *Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549) *Usman Bengali (d. 1573) *Ali al-Qari (d. 1605) *Ahmad Sirhindi (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanafi
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named after the 8th century Kufan scholar, Abu Hanifa, a Tabi‘i of Persian origin whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Imam Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani. It is considered one of the most widely accepted maddhab amongst Sunni Muslim community and is called the ''Madhhab of Jurists'' (maddhab ahl al-ray). The importance of this maddhab lies in the fact that it is not just a collection of rulings or sayings of Imam Abu Hanifa alone, but rather the rulings and sayings of the council of judges he established belong to it. It had a great excellence and advantage over the establishment of Sunni Islamic legal science. No one before Abu Hanifa preceded in such works. He was the first to solve the cases an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Tawwama
Sharaf ad-Dīn Abū Tawʾamah ( ar, شرف ٱلدِّيْن أبُو تَوْأَمَة, bn, আবু তাওয়ামা) was an Islamic scholar, author and muhaddith based in the subcontinent. He played a large role in disseminating Islam in eastern Bengal, establishing one of the country's first madrasas. According to A. F. M. Abdur Rahman, in addition to his proficiency in Persian and Arabic, he became well conversant in the local Old Bengali language of the time. Life Abu Tawwama was born into a Sunni Muslim family from Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan, a city located on the Silk Road famed as a centre of scholarship. His brother was Hafiz Zayn ad-Din who he later migrated with across Greater Khorasan to study Islamic theology and the natural sciences. He is said to have married at the age of 45 and had a daughter in Bukhara who locals refer to as Makhdum-e-Jahan. After completing his education to a good level, he decided to move to Delhi in circa 1260, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Salih Bengali
Shaykh Muhammad Salih Bengali ( bn, মুহম্মদ সালেহ বাঙ্গালী, fa, ) was an 18th-century Islamic scholar and teacher from Bengal. He is mentioned in the works of Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi and Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, where he is described as one of the leading scholars in the fields of Islamic jurisprudence, its principles, ''hikmah'', ''kalam'' and logic. Biography Muhammad Salih originated from Bengal, hence the suffix ''Bengali'' is found attached to his name in historical literary works. He studied the Islamic sciences under Shihab ad-Din, the Qadi of Gopamau, in Hindustan. After that, he joined the halaqa of Mir Zahid Harawi (d. 1689) who was one of the teachers of Shah Abdur Rahim that was serving as a ''Qadi'' at the Mughal imperial court. He benefitted a lot from this teacher. Thereafter, Salih became a teacher of Islamic studies himself. Among his many students was Qutb ad-Din, the son of his former teacher Shihab ad-Din, who also bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khayr Al-Din Al-Ramli
Khayr al-Din ibn Ahmad ibn Nur al-Din Ali ibn Zayn al-Din ibn Abd al-Wahab al-Ayubi al-Farooqui (1585–1671), better known as Khayr al-Din al-Ramli ( ar, خير الدين الرملي), was a 17th-century Islamic jurist, teacher and writer in then Ottoman-ruled Palestine. He is well known for issuing a collection of fatwas that became highly influential in Hanafi (one of four major schools of thought in Sunni Islam) jurisprudence in the 18th and 19th centuries. Early life and Islamic studies Khayr al-Din al-Ramli was born in al-Ramla in Ottoman Palestine. At that time, al-Ramla was a major garrison town (and in the early years of Islamic rule it had been the administrative capital of the Jund Filastin, or military district of Palestine). Al-Ramli receives his name from the town; ''al-Ramli'' translates as "from Ramla." Not much is known about al-Ramli's early life other than he began reading the Qur'an as young child.Fay, p. 13 In 1598-99 CE, al-Ramli traveled to Egypt wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'Abd Al-Haqq Al-Dehlawi
Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi ( fa, شیخ عبدالحق محدث دهلوی) was an Islamic scholar. Biography He was born in 1551 (958 AH) in Delhi, hence the suffix ''Dehlavi'' to his name. In 1587 (996 AH), he made the pilgrimage to Mecca, where he stayed remained for the next three years studying a hadith and Sufism under various scholars. Upon his return to Delhi, he taught for half a century, and authored more than 100 works, including a history of Medina, a biography of Prophet Muhammad, and a work on the lives of saints. Death He died in Delhi, in 1642 (1052 AH). His mausoleum exists at the edge of Hauz-i-Shamsi near Qutub Minar, Mehrauli, Delhi. Works * ''Akhbar al Akhyar'', 16th Century. Urdu Edition 1990. *''Sharh Mishkat Shareef'', known as Ashatul Lam'at * ''Perfection of Faith'' (Translation), Adam Publishers. * '' Madarij-ul-Nabuwwah'' * ''Tārīh-i Haqqī'' (The History by Haqq). General history of South Asia from the time of the Ğūrids to the 42nd year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Sirhindi
Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī (1564-1624) was a South Asian Islamic scholar from Punjab, Hanafi jurist, and member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order. He has been described by some followers as a Mujaddid, meaning a “reviver", for his work in rejuvenating Islam and opposing the newly made religion of Din-i Ilahi and other problematic opinions of Mughal emperor Akbar.Glasse, Cyril, ''The New Encyclopedia of Islam'', Altamira Press, 2001, p.432 While early South Asian scholarship credited him for contributing to conservative trends in Indian Islam, more recent works, notably by ter Haar, Friedman, and Buehler, have pointed to Sirhindi's significant contributions to Sufi epistemology and practices. Most of the Naqshbandī suborders today, such as the Muḥammadī, Haqqānī, Qāsimī, trace their spiritual lineage through Sirhindi as the ''Mujaddidī'' branch. Sirhindi's shrine, known as Rauza Sharif, is located in Sirhind, Punjab, India. Early life and education Ahmad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Al-Qari
Nur ad-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Hirawi al-Qari ( ar, نور الدين أبو الحسن علي بن سلطان محمد الهروي القاري; d. 1605/1606), known as Mulla Ali al-Qari () was an Islamic scholar. He was born in Herat, where he received his basic Islamic education. Thereafter, he travelled to Mecca and studied under the scholar Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Hajar al-Haytami Makki, and al-Qari eventually decided to remain in Mecca where he taught, died and was buried. He is considered in Hanafi circles to be one of the masters of hadith and imams of fiqh, Qur'anic commentary, language, history and tasawwuf. He was a hafiz (memoriser of the Quran) and a famous calligrapher who wrote a Quran by hand every year. Al-Qari wrote several books, including the commentary ''al-Mirqat'' on ''Mishkat al-Masabih'' in several volumes, a two-volume commentary on Qadi Ayyad's '' Ash-Shifa'', a commentary on the '' Shama'il al-Tirmidhi'', and a two-volume commentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usman Bengali
Usman Bengali ( bn, ওসমান বাঙ্গালী, fa, ; d. 1570s) was a 16th-century Islamic scholar of Bengal. He is mostly associated for his great teaching in the town of Sambhal during the Mughal period. His name is mentioned in the works of ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni and Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi, where he is described as one of the most famous of the Hanafi ulama of that period. Biography Usman was born and raised in Bengal. He completed his education relating to Islamic studies and Qur'an, eventually earning the title of '' Mawlana''. He later migrated to Sambhal in Hindustan where he studied under the renowned poet Miyan Hatim Sambhali. Intending to seek further knowledge, he proceeded to Gujarat where he became a student of Wajihuddin Alvi who was the teacher of Yusuf Bengali. According to the ''Asrariyah'' treatise written by Kamal Muhammad Sambhali, Usman then went back to Sambhal where he permanently settled. During his old age, his students would regularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Al-Halabi
Burhān ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (برهان الدين ٳبراهيم بن محمد بن ٳبراهيم الحلبى) was an Islamic jurist (''faqīh'') who was born around 1460 in Aleppo, and who died in 1549 in Istanbul. His reputation as one of the most brilliant legists of his time chiefly rests on his work entitled ''Multaqā al-Abḥur'', which became the standard handbook of the Ḥanafī school of Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire. Life Not many details are known about the life of Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī, with the available contemporary sources offering only an outline of his career. All known facts are presented by Has (1981), virtually all of them found in a single source, the biographical dictionary ''al-Shaqā’iq al-Nu‛māniyya'' compiled by Ṭāshköpri-Zāda (d. 1561). Al-Ḥalabī's ''nisba'' refers to his origin from Aleppo (in Arabic, Ḥalab), then part of the Mamluk Sultanate, where he was born around 1460. He received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Kemal
Şemseddin Ahmed (1469–1534), better known by his pen name Ibn Kemal or Kemalpaşazâde ("son of Kemal Pasha"), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman historian,''Kemalpashazade'', Franz Babinger, ''E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936'', Vol.4, ed. M. Th. Houtsma, (Brill, 1993), 851. Shaykh al-Islām, jurist and poet. He was born into a distinguished military family in Edirne and as a young man he served in the army and later studied at various madrasas and became the Kadı of Edirne in 1515.''History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey'', Stanford J. Shaw, page 145, 1976 He had Iranian peoples, Iranian roots on his mother's side. He became a highly respected scholar and was commissioned by the Ottoman ruler Bayezid II to write an Ottoman history (''Tevārīh-i Āl-i Osmān'', "The Chronicles of the House of Osman"). During the reign of Selim the Resolute, in 1516, he was appointed as military judge of Anatolia and accompanied the Ottoman army to Egypt. During th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badr Al-Din Al-Ayni
Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni ( ar, بدر الدين العيني, Badr al-ʿAynī; born 762 AH/1360 CE, died 855 AH/1453 CE) was a Sunni Islamic scholar of the Hanafi madh'hab and the Shadhili tariqa. ''Al-'Ayni'' is an abbreviation for ''al-'Ayntābi'', referring to his native city. Biography He was born into a scholarly family in 762 AH (1360 CE) in the city of 'Ayntāb (now Gaziantep in modern Turkey). He studied history, '' adab'', and Islamic religious sciences, and was fluent in Turkish. There is some evidence that he also knew at least some Persian. In 788 AH (1386 CE) he travelled to Jerusalem, where he met the Hanafi shaykh al-Sayrāmī, who was the head of the newly established Zāhiriyah '' madrasah'' (school) and '' khānqah'' ( Sufi retreat) in Cairo. Al-Sayrami invited al-'Ayni to accompany him home to Cairo, where he became one of the Sufis of the Zāhiriyah. This was a step upwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nur Qutb Alam
Nūr Quṭb ʿĀlam ( ar, , bn, নূর কুতুব আলম) was a 14th-century Bengali Islamic scholar, author and poet. Based in the erstwhile Bengali capital Hazrat Pandua, he was the son and successor of Alaul Haq, a senior scholar of the Bengal Sultanate. He is noted for his efforts in preserving the Muslim rule of Bengal against Raja Ganesha and pioneering the Dobhashi tradition of Bengali literature. Early life and family Nur Qutb Alam was born in the city of Hazrat Pandua to a Bengali Muslim family descended from Khalid ibn al-Walid, an Arab commander and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who belonged to the Banu Makhzum clan of Quraysh. Alam's cousins, uncles and grandfathers were all employed by the Sultanate of Bengal, with his brother, Azam Khan, serving as the Wazir (Prime Minister). His father, Alaul Haq, was the court scholar of Bengal and entrusted with its treasury during the reign of Sikandar Shah. His grandfather, Shaykh Asʿad Khāl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
