Shah Muhammad Ishaq Dehlawi (4 November 1783 – 20 July 1846), was an Indian Muslim scholar with his major focus on
hadith studies
Hadith studies ( ar, علم الحديث ''ʻilm al-ḥadīth'' "science of hadith", also science of hadith, or science of hadith criticism or hadith criticism)
consists of several religious scholarly disciplines used by Muslim scholars in th ...
.
Biography
Ishaq was born on 14 November 1782 in
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders ...
. He studied hadith from his grandfather
Shah Abdul Aziz
Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlavi (11 October 1746 – 5 June 1824; ) was Muhaddith (scholar of Hadith) and Mujadid Sufi and reformer from India. He was of the Naqshbandi Sufi order which emerged from a tradition of violent backlash against the ...
. He taught at the
Madrasah Rahimiyya. He died on 20 July 1846 in
Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow ...
and was buried in
Jannat al-Mu'alla next to
Khadija bint Khuwaylid
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid ( ar, خَدِيجَة بِنْت خُوَيْلِد, Khadīja bint Khuwaylid, 555 – November 619 CE) was the first wife and is considered to be the first follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Khadija was the da ...
.
His students include
Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri.
References
Bibliography
* Barkātī, Maḥmūd Aḥmad. 1992. Ḥayāt-i Shāh Muḥammad Isḥāq Muḥaddis̲ Dihlavī. Dihlī: Shāh Abūlk̲h̲air Akāḍmī.
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1783 births
1846 deaths
Indian Muslims
Indian Islamic religious leaders
People from Delhi
Burials at Jannat al-Mu'alla