‘Ala al-Din ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd-al-Malik Husam al-Din al-Muttaqi al-Hindi (1472 - 1567 CE/888 - 975 AH) was a

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who is known for writing

Kanz al-Ummal Kanz al-Ummal Fee Sunan al-Aqwal wa al-Af'al ( ar-at, كنز العمال في سنن الأقوال والأفعال, '), known in English as Treasures of the Doers of Good Deeds, is a Sunni hadith collection, collected by the Islamic scholar ...

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Biography

Al-Muttaqī was born in 1472 CE (888 AH) in

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on the banks of the

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. ‘Alī al-Muttaqī writes in his autobiography that when he was eight years old, it occurred to his father to enroll him in the service of Shaykh Bajan. The Shaykh instructed him in '' samā‘'' and Shaykh ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Bajan taught me ''adhkār'' l._of_"dhikr".html" ;"title="dhikr.html" ;"title="l. of "dhikr">l. of "dhikr"">dhikr.html" ;"title="l. of "dhikr">l. of "dhikr" ‘Ali al-Muttaqī soon after earned his living as a scribe. He travelled to different regions of Hindustan and travelled to Multan to meet Ḥisām al-Dīn al-Muttaqī and stayed under his guardianship, where he was instructed in Taṣawwuf (Sufism). ‘Alī al-Muttaqī then travelled to Mecca and stayed in the company of Abu al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, from whom he acquired knowledge of hadith and Taṣawwuf. Ali Muttaqi was the follower of Sheikh Muse, he read his books in Hartmut, Yemen.‘Alī al-Muttaqī wrote some of his early works in Mecca. ‘Alī al-Muttaqī also studied with the hadith scholar Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin Hajar al-Makkī. ‘Alī al-Muttaqī returned twice to India to

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, which was ruled by Maḥmūd Shāh, who was an admirer of the Shaykh.

Works

Regarding ‘Alī al-Muttaqī, the Ahl-i Hadith scholar

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says: "I have read and studied the works of Shaykh ‘Alī al-Muttaqī, his works are very beneficial and informative and complete." ‘Alī al-Muttaqī's works include: # '' Kanz al-‘Ummāl'', this is his most famous work. This work is printed. # ''Talkhīṣ al-Bayān'', this book is regarding the Mahdi of the last time. # ''Maṭla‘ al-Ghāyah'', it is a summary of Ibn al-Athīr’s "Al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-Aḥādīth". A manuscript of this was available in the Berlin Library. # ''Ghāyat al-Kamāl fī Bayān Afḍal al-‘Amaml'', a copy of it is in the Dār al-‘Ulūm library of Peshawar , a copy also exists in Institute of Oriental Manuscripts Leningrad. # ''Al-Fuṣūl fī Sharḥ Jami‘ al-Uṣūl'', a hand written manuscript by ‘Alī al-Muttaqī is in the collections of Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library # ''Jawāmi‘ Kalim fī al-Mawāḍi‘ wa'l-Ḥikam'', manuscripts of this work is available in many Indian collections also in Paris, Berlin, and al-Azhar. # ''Al-Aḥādīth al-Mutawattira'', a manuscript is available Raza Library Rampur, India. # ''Al-Rutba al-Fākhira'', this deals with "taṣawwuf". # ''Tabyīn al-Ṭarīq'', also "taṣawwuf". # ''Al-Ḥukm al-‘Irfānīya'', also "taṣawwuf". # ''Al-Burhān al-Jalī fī Ma‘rifat al-Walī''. Other books by ‘Alī al-Muttaqī are mentioned in the introduction of "''Kanz al-‘Ummāl''", a rare manuscript of his is available in the

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Death

‘Alī al-Muttaqī died in Mecca (1567 CE/975 AH), where he was buried at the

Jannat al-Mu'alla Jannat al-Mu'alla ( ar, جَنَّة ٱلْمُعَلَّاة, Jannah al-Muʿallāh, lit=The Most Exalted Paradise), also known as the "Cemetery of Ma'la" ( ar, مَقْبَرَة ٱلْمَعْلَاة, link=no ') and ''Al-Ḥajūn'' ( ar, ٱل ...

cemetery.

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