Ahl-e-Hadith

Ahl-i-Hadith or Ahl-e-Hadith (Urdu: اہلِ حدیث, "people of hadith"), also rendered Ahl al-Hadith (transl. 'People of the Tradition'), is a comparatively small but vigorous Salafi Islamic reform movement that developed in the Indian subcontinent. It presents itself as continuing the tradition of the prophetic and early caliphal period and professes the same outlook as the early Ahl al-Hadith school. Its modern roots are associated with the 18th-century tradition of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, the Wahhabi movement, and the 19th-century Indian Tarīqah-i Mūhammadiyyāh, while its development and subsequent prominence were particularly associated with the teachings of Sayyid Ahmad Shahid, Syed Nazeer Husain, and Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan. Sources variously place its emergence as a distinct modern movement around 1864, in the early 1870s, or toward the end of the 19th century.