Sanaullah Amritsari
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Abul Wafa Sanaullah Amritsari (12 June 1868 – 15 March 1948) was a British Indian, later Pakistani, Muslim scholar and a leading figure within the Ahl-e-Hadith movement who was active in the city of Amritsar, Punjab. He was an alumnus of Mazahir Uloom and the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a major antagonist of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the early Ahmadiya movement. He served as the general secretary of the All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-i-Hadith from 1906 to 1947 and was the editor of the Ahl-e-Hadees, a weekly magazine.
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Sanaullah Amritsari | |
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| Title | Shaykh al-Islām, Maulana, Sher-e-Punjab[1] |
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| Born | 12 June 1868 |
| Died | 15 March 1948 (aged 79) |
| Region | Amritsar, Punjab, British India |
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| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Ahl-i Hadith |
| Founder of | Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind |
| Creed | Athari |
Biography
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Sanaullah Amritsari's ancestors hailed from Doru Shahabad, a town in Jammu and Kashmir. He was born in 1868 in Amritsar, where his father had settled permanently.[2] He received his early education at Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar,[3] and later moved to Wazirabad to study hadith under Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi.[4] He then studied with Syed Nazir Hussain in Delhi.[5][6] He joined Mazahir Uloom for higher education and thereafter completed his studies at Darul Uloom Deoband, where his teachers included Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.[7][8][5] He had joined the Deoband seminary in 1890 to study logic, philosophy and Fiqh.[8] He subsequently attended the lectures of Aḥmad Ḥasan at the Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam, in Kanpur.[9]
Amritsari started his career with teaching at his alma mater Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar, in 1893, and taught the books of Dars-i Nizami.[9] He then became the director of education at the Madrasa Islamiyyah in Maler Kotla.[9] He subsequently stepped into polemics and began debating the proponents of Arya Samaj and specially Ahmadism.[10] He established Ahl-e-Hadith Press in 1903 and published a weekly journal Ahl-e-Hadith which continued for about 44 years.[8] He was a leading figure of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement and served as the general secretary of All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-Hadith from 1906 to 1947.[3][4] He co-founded the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and had a rank of major general in Junud-e-Rabbania.[8] He was president of Anjuman Ahl-e-Hadith Punjab.[7] He was given the title Sher-e-Punjab for his services to Islam in Punjab.[8]
Amritsari migrated to Gujranwala, Pakistan after Partition of India in 1947 and died on 15 March 1948 in Sargodha.[8]
Literary works
Amritsari wrote pamphlets and books mostly in the refutation of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.[11] Syed Mehboob Rizwi has mentioned Tafsir al-Quran be-Kalam al-Rahman, Tafsir-e-Sanai and Taqabul-e-Salasa as his important works.[8]
When Rangila Rasul was written on Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sanaullah Amritsari wrote Muqaddas Rasool as a reply to that book.[12]
He also wrote the book "Haq Prakash" in answer to Dayananda Saraswati's book "Satyarth Prakash".
Legacy
- Faz̤lurraḥmān bin Muḥammad wrote Hazrat Maulana Sanaullah Amritsari.[13]
- Abdul Majid Sohdri wrote Seerat Sanai.
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