Muḥammad Idrīs ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī ( ur, ; 20 August 189928 July 1974) was a
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 ...
Islamic scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of reli ...
particularly known as a scholar of
hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
and
tafsir
Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...
(exegesis of the Qur'an). He held the post of Shaykh al-Tafsir 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 ...
in
India
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and later migrated to
Pakistan
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where he served as Shaykh al-Hadith wat-Tafsir at
Jamia Ashrafia Lahore. Notable among his written works are ''Ma'ariful Qur'an'', a tafsir of the Qur'an, ''Siratul Mustafa'', a ''
sirah'' (biography) of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
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, and ''at-Ta'liq as-Sabih'', an Arabic ''sharh'' (commentary) on the
hadith collection ''
Mishkat al-Masabih
''Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ'' ( ar, مشكاة المصابيح, lit=The Niche of Lanterns) by Walī ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb at-Tibrīzī (d.1248) is an expanded and revised version of al-Baghawī's '' ...
''. A graduate of both
Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur and
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 ...
, he studied under scholars including
Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri
Abū Ibrāhīm K͟halīl Aḥmad ibn Majīd ‘Alī Anbahṭawī Sahāranpūrī Muhājir Madanī ( ur, ; December 185213 October 1927) was a Deobandi Hanafi Islamic scholar from India who authored ''Badhl al-Majhud'', an 18-volume commentary ...
,
Anwar Shah Kashmiri
Anwar Shah Kashmiri (known with honorifics as ''Sayyid Muḥammad Anwar Shāh ibn Mu‘aẓẓam Shāh al-Kashmīrī''; 16 November 1875 – 28 May 1933) was a Kashmiri Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the first principal of Madrasa Ami ...
, and
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (11 October 188713 December 1949) was an Islamic scholar who supported the Pakistan Movement in the 1940s. He was a religious scholar, writer, orator, politician, and expert in Tafsir and Hadith.
Born in 1887 in Bijnor, Us ...
.
[Sadat, Saleem. In ]
Name and introduction
In the introduction to one of his works, he introduces himself as "
Hafiz Muhammad Idris ibn
Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi, Siddiqi by ''nasab'' (lineage), Hanafi by ''
madhhab
A ( ar, مذهب ', , "way to act". pl. مَذَاهِب , ) is a school of thought within ''fiqh'' (Islamic jurisprudence).
The major Sunni Mathhab are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali.
They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries CE an ...
'' (school of jurisprudence), and Chishti by ''mashrab'' (spiritual disposition, lit. 'spring')."
Elsewhere, in one of his Arabic works, he writes, "as-Siddiqi al-Faruqi by ''nasab'', al-Bawfali by birth and origin, al-Kandahlawi by home, al-Hanafi by ''madhhab'', an-Naqshbandi, al-Mujaddidi."
He was
Siddiqi on his father's side, tracing his ancestry to
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
Abu Bakr Abdallah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (; – 23 August 634) was the senior companion and was, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the first caliph of Islam. He is known with the honorif ...
,
while on his mother's side he was
Farooqi
Farooqui ( ar, الفاروقي); also transliterated as Farooqi, Faruki or Al Farooqui), is a distinct name or surname or last name of Arabic origin.
Notable Farooquis
* Umar, second Caliph of Islam associate of Muhammad
* Hafsa bint Umar, wif ...
, claiming descent from
Umar ibn Khattab
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate ...
.
Thus he referred to himself as both Siddiqi and Faruqi. He adhered to the
Hanafi
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school of ''
fiqh
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The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...
'' (Islamic jurisprudence) and his ''
tariqah
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...
'' (order) in
Sufism
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was the
Chishtiyah Sabiriyah, which incorporates several orders, including the
Naqshbandiyah Mujaddidiyah. He was born in
Bhopal
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and so he was "al-Bawfali" (Urdu: Bhopali). However he is commonly known by the ''
nisbat'' "
Kandhlawi", referring to his home,
Kandhla
Kandhla is a town, near Shamli City and municipal board in Shamli District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Geography
Kandhla is located at . It has an average elevation of 241 meters (790 feet). The Postal Code (Zip Code) is ...
, a north-Indian town known for producing many
Islamic scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of reli ...
s. A descendant of
Mufti
A Mufti (; ar, مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion ('' fatwa'') on a point of Islamic law (''sharia''). The act of issuing fatwas is called ''iftāʾ''. Muftis and their ''fatwas'' played an important rol ...
Ilahi Bakhsh Kandhlawi,
[ his '']nasab
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'' (patronymic) is as follows: Muḥammad Idrīs ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl ibn Muḥammad Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad Abul-Qāsim ibn Ilāhī Bak͟hsh.
Birth and early life
Idris was born on 12 Rabi ath-Thani 1317 AH ( 20 August 1899), the son of Maulana Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi (d. 1942[), in ]Bhopal
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, capital of the princely Bhopal State
Bhopal State (pronounced ) was an Islamic principality founded in the beginning of 18th-century India by the Afghan Mughal noble Dost Muhammad Khan. It was a tributary state during 18th century, a princely salute state with 19-gun salute in a ...
.[
][ Ismail, an Islamic scholar and a disciple of Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki, worked in Bhopal in the State's Forest Department.] When Idris was a few years old, Ismail resigned from his post and began teaching hadith in the Jami Masjid in Kandhla. Idris grew up in a religious household. It was common for even the women in the family to know the Qur'an by heart. As per the family tradition, Idris memorized the Qur'an, completing it with his father at the age of nine in Kandhla.[
]
Education
After Idris completed ''hifz
Hafiz (; ar, حافظ, ḥāfiẓ, pl. ''ḥuffāẓ'' , f. ''ḥāfiẓa'' ), literally meaning "memorizer", depending on the context, is a term used by Muslims for someone who has completely memorized the Quran. Hafiza is the female equiva ...
'' (memorization) of the Qur'an, his father entrusted him to Ashraf Ali Thanawi
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 ...
for religious education at Khanqah
A khanqah ( fa, خانقاه) or khangah ( fa, خانگاه; also transliterated as ''khankah'', ''khaneqa'', ''khanegah'' or ''khaneqah''; also Arabized ''hanegah'', ''hanikah'', ''hanekah'', ''khankan''), also known as a ribat (), is a buildin ...
Imdadiyah Ashrafiyah in Thana Bhawan
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. At the madrasah
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there he completed his primary education in the Dars-i Nizami
Dars-i Nizami is a study curriculum or system used in many Islamic institutions (madrassas) and Dar Ul Ulooms, which originated in the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century and can now also be found in parts of South Africa, Canada, the United S ...
curriculum with Thanawi as well as with Maulana Abdullah Gangohi.[ Then, as Madrasah Ashrafiyah only had arrangements for the primary curriculum, Idris was admitted to Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur for further training in the Islamic sciences.][ Thanawi himself took Idris to ]Saharanpur
Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur district.
Saharanpur city's name was given after the Saint Shah Haroon Chishti.
Saharanpur is declared as on ...
and presented him to Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri
Abū Ibrāhīm K͟halīl Aḥmad ibn Majīd ‘Alī Anbahṭawī Sahāranpūrī Muhājir Madanī ( ur, ; December 185213 October 1927) was a Deobandi Hanafi Islamic scholar from India who authored ''Badhl al-Majhud'', an 18-volume commentary ...
. At Mazahir Uloom his teachers included Maulana Saharanpuri, Maulana Sabit Ali, Maulana Abdul Latif, and Maulana Zafar Ahmad Usmani. After completing ''dawrah'' of hadith he received his ''sanad-i faraghat'' (certificate of completion) at the age of 19.[
Thereafter, Idris completed ''dawrah'' of hadith a second time 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 ...
, with scholars including Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Allamah Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Mufti Azizur Rahman Usmani, Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Nanautawi, Maulana Habibur Rahman Usmani, and Sayyid Asghar Husain Deobandi.[ At Deoband his fellow students included ]Mufti Muhammad Shafi
Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī ( ur, ; ar, محمد شفيع بن محمد ياسين العثماني الديوبندي, ''Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn al-‘Uthmānī ad-Diyūbandī''; ...
and Qari Muhammad Tayyib
Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi (known as Qari Muhammad Tayyib) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar who served as Vice Chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband for more than half a century. He was grandson of Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, the founder of the Darul ...
.
Career
Idris spent the majority of his life in the service of institutions of Islamic learning. His career can be summarized as follows:
* 1921–1922: Madrasah Aminiyah Delhi
* 1922–1929: 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 ...
* 1929–1939: Hyderabad State
* 1939–1949: 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 ...
in the post of Shaykh at-Tafsir
* 1949–1951: Jamiah Abbasiyah Bahawalpur in the post of Shaykh al-Jamiah
* 1951–1974: Jamia Ashrafia
Jamia Ashrafia (جامعہ اشرفیہ, Ashrafia Islamic University), Lahore, Pakistan, is a religious educational institution founded by Mufti Muhammad Hassan in 1947. The university has produced scholars of the Deobandi school and Deoband ...
Lahore in the post of Shaykh al-Hadith wat-Tafsir
Madrasah Aminiyah
Upon completing his education, in 1921[ / 1338 AH][ Maulana Idris was appointed to his first teaching post at Madrasah Aminiyah, ]Delhi
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.[ This was during the time of Mufti Kifayatullah Dihlawi's leadership at the madrasah.][ However, after only one year, Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Nanautawi, ''muhtamim'' (]vice-chancellor
A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.
In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...
) of 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 ...
, and Maulana Habibur Rahman Usmani, ''na'ib muhtamim'', ( pro-vice-chancellor), invited Maulana Idris to teach at the Darul Uloom.[
]
First stint at Darul Uloom Deoband
Idris began teaching at Darul Uloom Deoband in 1922. He was never assigned the elementary books; instead, the books initially assigned to him were ''Hidayah awwalin'' in Hanafi fiqh and ''Maqamat-i Hariri'' in Arabic literature.[ Later Idris was assigned to teach the hadith collection '']Mishkat al-Masabih
''Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ'' ( ar, مشكاة المصابيح, lit=The Niche of Lanterns) by Walī ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb at-Tibrīzī (d.1248) is an expanded and revised version of al-Baghawī's '' ...
''. ''Tafsir al-Jalalayn
''Tafsīr al-Jalālayn'' ( ar, تفسير الجلالين, lit=Tafsir of the two Jalals) is a classical Sunni interpretation (tafsir) of the Qur'an, composed first by Jalal ad-Din al-Maḥalli in 1459 and then completed after his passing by Jala ...
'' was also his responsibility. Idris remained with the Darul Uloom for nine years. During this time he regularly delivered a lecture on the Qur'an after Fajr prayer
The Fajr prayer ( ar, صلاة الفجر ', "dawn prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayer), to be performed anytime starting from the moment of dawn, but not after sunrise. As an Islamic day starts at sunset, the Fajr praye ...
in the madrasah's Naudarah building. Attended by both intermediate and advanced students, in these lessons difficult issues in tafsir, hadith, ilm al-kalam, and fiqh were discussed.[
]
Hyderabad State
In 1929, due to disagreements with the Darul Uloom's leadership, Anwar Shah Kashmiri and Shabbir Ahmad Usmani left the madrasah followed by other teachers and students. Idris left Deoband, taking up a post in Hyderabad State
Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...
, where he remained for approximately nine years.[ There, in addition to teaching, he engaged in the writing and compilation of various works, including ''at-Ta'liq as-sabih'', an Arabic commentary on ''Mishkat al-Masabih'' in several volumes. He had access to the Asafiyah Library, where he made use of books including a rare manuscript of at-Turbashti's ''sharh'' (commentary) of '']Masabih as-Sunnah
''Masabih al-Sunnah'' is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additiona ...
'', said to be the only such manuscript in India at the time. Though much of his time in Hyderabad was spent in research and authorship he did continue to teach; he taught the hadith collection ''Mishkat al-masabih'' in its entirety several times. In Hyderabad State Idris had the opportunity to meet Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (born Marmaduke William Pickthall; 7 April 187519 May 1936) was an English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called '' The Meaning of the Glorious Koran''. His translation of the Qu ...
. The two lived across from each other for some time and would often engage in conversation regarding Islam. Other friends and contacts included Manazir Ahsan Gilani
Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1 October 1892 – 5 June 1956) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar and former Dean of The Faculty of Theology in Osmania University. He wrote ''Tadwin-e-Hadith'', ''Muqaddama Tadwin-e-Fiqh'' and ''Sawanih Qasmi''. Muhammad ...
and Abdul Bari Nadwi, in whose gatherings many learned individuals would congregate. During his stay Idris also met Abul Ala Maududi
Abul A'la al-Maududi ( ur, , translit=Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; – ) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the parti ...
and his brother Abul Khair Maududi, both with whom he remained in contact with until the end of his life.
Second stint at Darul Uloom Deoband
In 1936 and 1937 Idris was twice invited to take up a post at Madrasah Islamiyah Arabiyah in Dabhel
Dabhel is a town in Gujarat state of India. It is famous for its Islamic education, most notably given in Jamia Islamia Talimuddin.
Dabhel lies south of Surat and north of Navsari, to the east is Vesma crossroad on National Highway 8 and to ...
, where Kashmiri and Usmani had shifted, but he refused both offers. However, in 1939 he was invited to take the post of Shaykh at-Tafsir at Darul Uloom Deoband by Usmani, who by then had returned to the Darul Uloom as ''sadr muhtamim'' (chancellor
Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
), and Qari Muhammad Tayyib, who was then ''muhtamim''. Idris accepted, although the salary was less than half of what he was receiving in Hyderabad.
Thus in 1939 Idris returned to Darul Uloom Deoband as Shaykh at-Tafsir and remained there until 1949. In addition to teaching ''Tafsir Ibn Kathir'' and ''Tafsir al-Baydawi'', the main books of the ''dawrah'' tafsir curriculum, he also taught ''Tafsir al-Jalalayn'', '' Sunan Abu Dawud'', and ''Tahawi
Abu Ja'far Ahmad al-Tahawi ( ar, أبو جعفر الطحاوي, translit=Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī) (843 – 5 November 933), or simply aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: ), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Athari theologian. He studi ...
''.[ He also continued to conduct his regular Qur'an lecture.]
Jamiah Abbasiyah Bahawalpur
After the independence
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of Pakistan
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in 1947, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, who had migrated to Pakistan before independence, repeatedly called Idris to come to Pakistan. Idris finally decided to leave India in 1949, due to what he perceived as the worsening of conditions for Islam and Muslims in the country. In May 1949 he resigned from Darul Uloom Deoband and returned home to Kandhla. He received invitations from other institutions in India, which he refused. He was invited to take the post of Shaykh al-Hadith at Darul Uloom Hathazari
Al-Jāmiʿah al-Ahliyyah Dār al-ʿUlūm Muʿīn al-Islām ( ar, الجامعة الأهلية دار العلوم معين الإسلام), popularly known as the Hāṭhazārī Madrasa ( bn, হাটহাজারী মাদ্রাসা) ...
in Chittagong
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, East Pakistan
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(present-day Bangladesh
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). Despite the high salary, he also refused this offer since he wished to migrate to West Pakistan
West Pakistan ( ur, , translit=Mag̱ẖribī Pākistān, ; bn, পশ্চিম পাকিস্তান, translit=Pôścim Pakistan) was one of the two Provincial exclaves created during the One Unit Scheme in 1955 in Pakistan. It was d ...
.
In October 1949 Idris was invited to Jamia Abbasia in Bahawalpur, West Pakistan. Jamia Abbasia was an old university in the princely Bahawalpur State whose educational and administrative system was in need of reform.[ The State's Ministry of Education had requested Shabbir Ahmad Usmani in the capacity of chancellor (''raʾīs al-jāmiʿah'') and Idris as vice-chancellor (''shaykh al-jāmiʿah'').][ Idris assumed this post on 25 December. Apart from administrative responsibilities he taught '']Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...
'' and ''Tafsir al-Baydawi
''Anwar al-Tanzil wa-Asrar al-Ta'wil'' ( ar, أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل, lit=The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation), better known as ''Tafsir al-Baydawi'' ( ar, تفسير البيضاوي), is o ...
''. Usmani, however, fell ill shortly after arriving in Bahawalpur and died there in December 1949.[
]
Jamiah Ashrafiyah Lahore
In August 1951 Idris resigned from Jamia Abbasia and went to the recently established Jamia Ashrafia
Jamia Ashrafia (جامعہ اشرفیہ, Ashrafia Islamic University), Lahore, Pakistan, is a religious educational institution founded by Mufti Muhammad Hassan in 1947. The university has produced scholars of the Deobandi school and Deoband ...
Lahore at the request of Mufti Mahmud Hasan, the madrasah's founder and ''muhtamim''. At Jamia Ashrafia he served as Shaykh al-Hadith wa-at-Tafsir and taught ''Sahih al-Bukhari'', ''Jami at-Tirmidhi
Jami at-Tirmidhi ( ar, جامع الترمذي), also known as Sunan at-Tirmidhi, is one of "the six books" ('' Kutub al-Sittah'' - the six major hadith collections). It was collected by Al-Tirmidhi. He began compiling it after the year 250 A.H. ...
'', and ''Tafsir al-Baydawi''. He remained with the Jamia until the end of his life. He died in Lahore on the morning of 7 Rajab 1394[ / 28 July 1974, and is buried there.]
Publication
* Al-Taa’liq Al-Sabeeh On Mishkatil Masabeeh
Legacy
Thesis
*
Journal
*
*
Bibliography
*
Journal
Zar Gul
*
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Idris Kandhlawi, Muhammad
1899 births
1974 deaths
People from Bhopal
People from Lahore
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Muhajir people
Deobandis
Mazahir Uloom alumni
Darul Uloom Deoband alumni
Academic staff of Darul Uloom Deoband
Academic staff of Jamia Ashrafia