Muhammad Zakariya al-Kandahlawi
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| Muhammad Zakarīyyā ibn Muhammad Yahyá ibn Muhammad Ismail al-Kandhlawi | |
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| Full name | Muhammad Zakarīyyā ibn Muhammad Yahyá ibn Muhammad Ismail al-Kandhlawi |
| Born | February 3, 1898 |
| Died | May 24, 1982 |
| Era | 20th Century |
| Region | Muslim Scholar |
| School | Sunni Islam |
| Notable ideas | Basic principles and practices of Islam and global brotherhood |
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Muhammad Zakarīyyā ibn Muhammad Yahyá ibn Muhammad Ismail al-Kandhlawi (February 3 1898 – May 24 1982) was a prominent Sunni Muslim scholar of the Indian subcontinent. He was a nephew of Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi, the founder of the Tablighi Jamaat.
Muhammad followed the Deobandi school of Hanafi thought. He is remembered for his contribution to hadith studies. He is also well known as the author of the eighteen-volume Awjāzul Masālik ilá Mu'attā Imām Mālik and Fadha'il-e 'Amal (a series of books used by the Tablighi Jamaat for Da'wah).
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[edit] Early years
Muhammad Zakariyya was born in the town of Kandhla in the district of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, India on 11 Ramadan, 1315 AH (1898 AC) to a family claiming the lineage of Abu Bakr. Around 1318 AH, he moved to Gangoh, where his father lived.
[edit] Education
At the age of seven or eight, Muhammad Zakariyya began his primary education under Dr. Abdur Rahman Muzaffarnagari and his wife, including Qur'anic memorisation and Persian and Urdu. In Rajab, 1328 AH, he moved to Saharanpur where his father had settled. In Saharanpur, he continued to study Arabic, including morphology, grammar, literature, and logic and began the study of fiqh and hadith literature.
[edit] Teaching career
After completing his academic studies, on the 1st of Muharram, 1335 AH, Muhammad Zakariyya was appointed as a primary level teacher in Mazahir al-Ulum. In Shawwaal of 1344 AH, Hadhrat accompanied his Shaikh for Hajj. In Madina, he taught Sunan Abu Da'ud at Madrasatul Uloom Shari'ah for a year. While in Madina, he commenced the writing of Awjaz ul Masalik ila Mu'atta Imam Malik. He was twenty-nine at the time.
After spending a year in the Hejaz, Muhammad Zakariyya returned on the 18th of Safar, 1346 AH. He continued to teach until 1388 AH, when he developed cataracts.
[edit] Household
Muhammad Zakariyya married twice. He first married the daughter of Shaikh Ra'uf ul Hasan in Kandhla. She bore him eight children: three sons and five daughters. Unfortunately, she died on the 5th of Dhu l-Hijja, 1355 AH. He then married his first cousin, the daughter of Muhammad Ilyas, in 1356 AH. She bore him three children: one son and two daughters.
[edit] Written works
Hadhrat authored works both in Arabic and Urdu. A number of them treat specialized subjects intended for scholars and the rest have been written for the general public. His first written work was a three-volume commentary of Alfiyya Ibn Malik, which he wrote as a student when he was only thirteen. His work, Fadha'il-e-Qur'an has been translated into eleven languages, Fadha'il-e-Ramadan into twelve languages, and Fadha'il-e-Salaah into fifteen languages. He wrote four books on tafsir and tajwid, forty-four books about hadith, six books on fiqh and its related sciences, twenty-four historical and biographical books, four books on aqidah, twelve books on zuhd (abstinence) and riqaq, three books on Arabic grammar and logic, and six books on modern-day groups and movements..A collection of his books on Fadha'il is " Fadha'il-e-Aemaal " which is most popular book written by him. Specially this is the book for which he is well known amount the Tablighee people ( preachers ) in India and Paksitan.
[edit] Facts
In Dhu'l-Qada,1334 ah,when shayk zakariya was at the age of 19 his dear father died. At the Age of three he found difficulties in walking properly. he studied sunan-al-tirmidhi and sahih al bukhri with his father.
[edit] External links
- http://www.inter-islam.org
- http://whitethreadpress.com/authors/shaykh_zakariyya.htm A Biography of the Shaikh
