Husamul Haramain (''Ḥusām al-Haramayn'') or Husam al Harmain (The Sword of the Two Holy Mosques) 1906, is a treatise written by Ahmad Raza Khan (1856- 1921) which declared the founders of the

Deobandi Deobandi is a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam, adhering to the Hanafi school of law, formed in the late 19th century around the Darul Uloom Madrassa in Deoband, India, from which the name derives, by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, R ...

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and Ahmadiyya movements as heretics.https://hudson.org/content/researchattachments/attachment/1283/kahn_vol12.pdf The treatise is published in Arabic, Urdu, English,

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and in Hindi language and its pledge is mandatory in Al Jamiatul Ashrafia.

History

In 1905, Khan performed pilgrimage to holy sites in the Hejaz. During this period, he prepared a draft document entitled "Al Motamad Al Mustanad" (The Reliable Proofs) in which he argued against opinions of founders of

and Ahmadiyya movement for presentation to his contemporaries in Mecca and Medina. Khan collected scholarly opinions of thirty-three fellow scholars' verdicts. All of them concurred with his assertion that the founders of

, Ahmadiyya and

movements were apostate and blasphemers. They also exhorted the government of British India to execute the founders of those movements for heresy.Gregory C. Doxlowski
Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870-1920
The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Oct–Dec, 1999Husamul Haramain, Imam Ahmed Raza Khan, published by Raza Academy, 2005,P 32-50 The fatwa deals separately regarding each of the following:

Deobandi

The major Deobandi scholars

Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (1832 – 15 April 1880) () was an Indian Sunni Hanafi Maturidi Islamic Scholar, theologian and a Sufi who was one of the main founders of the Deobandi Movement, starting from the Darul Uloom Deoband. Name and ...

, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and

Ashraf Ali Thanwi Ashraf Ali Thanwi (often referred as Hakim al-Ummat and Mujaddid e Millet; 19 September 1863 – 20 July 1943) was a late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Sunni Islam, Sunni scholar, jurist, thinker, Mujaddid, reformist and the revival of classic ...

were stated as infidels allegedly for producing blasphemous texts against Allah, Prophet Muhammad and the

Awliya A wali (''wali'' ar, وَلِيّ, '; plural , '), the Arabic word which has been variously translated "master", "authority", "custodian", "protector", is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate an Islamic saint, otherwise referred to by t ...

. Khalil Ahmed Saharanpuri then compiled a set of questions and answers and took signatures from various scholars at

Darul Uloom Deoband The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary (darul uloom) in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim ...

entitled ''

Al-Muhannad ala al-Mufannad Al-Muhannad 'ala al-Mufannad ( ar, المهند على المفند, lit=The Sword on the Disproved), also known as al-Tasdiqat li-Daf' al-Talbisat ( ar, التصديقات لدفع التلبيسات, lit=Endorsements Repelling Deceits), was s ...

'' and submitted it to scholars of Makkah and Madinah. The book consisted of agreed upon creeds of Deobandi scholars which in turn confirmed the beliefs of Barelvi muslims.

Ahmadiyya

Mirza Ghulam Qadiyani, the founder of Ahmadi movement stated as being outside the fold of Islam due to supposed violation of the belief regarding the finality of Prophethood of Muhammad.

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Husamul Haramain in various languages
{{Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Sunni literature Fatwas Barelvi literature Islamic literature Works of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi 1906 non-fiction books 20th-century Indian books Indian non-fiction books Indian religious texts

History

Deobandi

Ahmadiyya

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