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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, U ...

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Movement. He also was a prominent

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The Nation (newspaper), Published 9 December 2014, Retrieved 2 March 2020 He is most famous for having written I'la Al-Sunan, a 20 volume Hadith encyclopedia of Hanafi proofs, written as a refutation by the Hanafi school against the objections raised by the growing

Ahl-i Hadith Ahl-i Hadith or Ahl-e-Hadith ( bn, আহলে হাদীছ, hi, एहले हदीस, ur, اہلِ حدیث, ''people of hadith'') is a Salafi reform movement that emerged in North India in the mid-nineteenth century from the teach ...

movement, as per the request of his uncle

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Birth

Zafar Ahmad Usmani was born on 4 October 1892 in

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) was Zafar Ahmad. His ''

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) is: Zafar Ahmad ibn Lateef Ahmad ibn Nehal Ahmad ibn Karamat Hussain ibn Nabi Bakhsh ibn Hayātullah ibn Ināyatullah ibn Laqā'ullāh ibn Ihsānullāh ibn Nasīrullah ibn Dīwān Lutfullah ibn Owais ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Razzāq ibn Muhammad Hasan ibn Habībullah ibn Usmān ibn Ali ibn Shaykh Muhammad ibn Fazlullāh ibn Abu al-Wafā Usmāni.

Education and career

After the death of his mother when he was 3, he was raised by his grandmother, considered to be a religious woman. He started studying and memorizing the Quran at the age of 5. At age 7, he studied

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under Mawlana Muhammad Yasin. His uncle,

guided him as he studied with more religious scholars. In Pakistan, he became a close associate of Maulana

and an active member of

founded by him. After the death of

in 1949, he and Maulana Ehteshamul Haq Thanvi became key leaders of this party.1969: Fifty Years Ago: Islamic socialism
Dawn (newspaper), Published 9 September 2019, Retrieved 2 March 2020

Works

Usmani's most famous work is ''I’la’ al-Sunan'', which is a Hadith Commentary that connects the opinions of this Hanafi's book with direct evidence from the Hadiths. The reason for this was that the

movement was growing and bringing their objections, and Maulana

asked his nephew to respond. The book was first printed in 1923. It consists of 21 volumes.

Honored by Jinnah

At the

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ceremony in 1947,

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asked the renowned religious scholar

Maulana 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 ...

to hoist the Pakistani flag in

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and he asked Zafar Ahmad Usmani to hoist it in

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. Also, since Zafar Ahmad Usmani was a jurist, he was selected to take oath from the first

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, Abdul Rashid.

References

External links

Zafar Ahmad Usmani books on Islamic Books Library websiteThesis
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zafar Ahmad Usmani 1892 births 1974 deaths Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Pakistan Movement activists Deobandis Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam politicians Usmani family People from Deoband Disciples of Ashraf Ali Thanwi