Jump to content

Abul Wafa al-Afghani

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maulana
Abul Wafa al-Afghani
Personal life
Born
Mahmud Shah

25 June 1893
Qandahar
Died23 July 1975(1975-07-23) (aged 82)
Hyderabad
Resting placeAnwar-e-Naqshbandi Chaman, Misriganj, in Hyderabad
Alma materMadrasa Nizamia
OccupationIslamic research scholar, Hadith scholar, faqih
Religious life
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
TeachersAnwarullah Farooqui

Abul Wafa Syed Mahmūd Shah al-Qadri al-Hanafi al-Afghani[1] (1893–1975), also known as Abu Wafa Al Afghani, was a Hyderabad-based Afghani Islamic scholar, Hanafi faqih, and researcher.

Early life and education

[edit]

Abul Wafa Al-Afghani was born in Qandahar on 10 Dhu al-Hijjah 1310 AH (25 June 1893 AD). His father, Syed Mubarak Shah Qadri, was an Islamic scholar.[2][3][4]

He came to India from Qandhar for study and studied with scholars in Rampur and Gujarat in his teenage years. He subsequently traveled to Hyderabad, Deccan, in 1330 AH (1912) and enrolled in Madrasa Nizamia, where he graduated. His teachers included Anwarullah Farooqui, the founder of Jamia Nizamiya and Dairat al-Maarif al-Usmania, as well as Sheikh Abdus Samad, Sheikh Abdul Karim, Sheikh Ruknuddin, and Qari Muhammad Ayyub.[2][5]

Career

[edit]

Following graduation, Afghani was appointed as a teacher at Madrasa Nizamia, where he spent several years teaching literary Arabic, jurisprudence, and hadith.[6]

In 1948, under his supervision and with the support of his friends, he established a committee for the revival of Nu'mani sciences, Lajnat-u-Ihya al-Ma'ārif an-Nu'maniyyah, under which he published many valuable books of the Imams of the second and third centuries of Hijri. He volunteered his time, wealth, and knowledge to the extent possible.[6][7][8][9]

Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, who visited him, states that "there was nothing in his house except books, manuscripts, and writings. These books would be spread all around him. Abul Wafa would have only a few morsels at night, and his nights would be spent supplicating Allah."[10]

Books worked on

[edit]

Afghani worked on the following books:[11][12][13][14]

  • At-Tahawi's Mukhtasar in Fiqh (in a volume)[15][16]
  • Research work on the third volume of Al-Bukhari's At-Tārīkh al-Kabīr
  • Al-Khassaf's Kitāb an-Nafaqāt
  • Al-Sarakhsi's Usool al-Sarakhsi[17][18][19]
  • Al-Sarakhsi's Sharh az-Ziyadāt – in 2 volumes
  • Al-Dhahabi's Manaqib-u-Abi Hanifa Wa Sahibaihi Yousuf Wa Muhammad with al‑Kawthari
  • Muhammad al-Shaybani's Kitab al-Hujjah Alā Ahl al-Madīnah (This book was researched by Mahdi Hasan Shahjahanpuri and published in 4 volumes under the supervision of Afghani.[20])
  • Al-Shaybani's Kitāb al-Āthār[21][22]
  • Al-Shaybani's Kitab al-Asl (known as al-Mabsūt)[23][24]
  • Abu Abdullah As-Saimari (d. 1045 AD)'s Akhbār-u-Abi Hanīfa Wa Ashābihi
  • Muhammad bin Yousuf As-Sālihi ash-Shāmi (d. 942 AH)'s Uqūd al-Jumān Fi Manāqib Al-Imam Al-Aẓam Abi Ḥanifah Al-Numan
  • Abu Yusuf's Kitāb al-Āthār[25][18][26]
  • Abu Yusuf's Kitāb ar-Radd 'Alā Siyar al-Awza'i[27][28]
  • Abu Yusuf's Ikhtilāf-u-Abi Hanifah Wa Ibn Abi Layla
  • Muhammad al-Shaybani's Kitāb al-Asl
  • Al-Shaybani's Al Jami' al-Kabīr
  • Al-Shaybani's Sharh Kitāb al-Āthār
  • Al-Sharakhsi's An-Nukat on Al-Shaybani's Ziyādāt az-Ziyadāt[29][30]

Death

[edit]

Afghani died on 13 Rajab 1395 AH (23 July 1975) in Hyderabad and was buried in Anwar-e-Naqshbandi Chaman, Misriganj, in Hyderabad.[4][31]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Abu Ghudda 1982, pp. 123.
  2. ^ a b "أبو الوفاء الأفغاني المتوفى في رجب 1395هـ" [Abul Wafa Al-Afghani, who died in Rajab 1395 AH]. Jam'iyyat al-Ittihād al-Islami (in Arabic). 2013-06-17. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  3. ^ Abu Ghudda, Abd al-Fattah (1982). Al Ulama al-'Uzzāb Alladhīna Aatharu al-'Ilma 'Ala az-Ziwāj [Single scholars who chose knowledge over marriage] (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Aleppo: Maktab al-Matboo'āt al-Islamiyya. p. 123.
  4. ^ a b Nizami, Fasihuddin (2022-02-10). "Allama Abul Wafa Afghani". Siasat Daily - Urdu (in Urdu). Archived from the original on 2024-07-04. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  5. ^ Abu Ghudda 1982, pp. 123–124.
  6. ^ a b Abu Ghudda 1982, p. 124.
  7. ^ Ibn Zughaibah, Izzuddīn (1 September 2018). "مجلس إحياء المعارف النعمانية -حيدر آباد - الهند الانتهاء برحيل المؤسسين" [Majlis Ihya al-Ma'ārif an-Nu'maniyyah - Hyderabad - India Ending with the departure of the founders]. Āfāq at-Thaqāfah Wat Turāth. 26 (103). Dubai: Juma Al Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage: 4–5 – via alsharekh.org.
  8. ^ Banuri, Muhammad Yusuf (2020). Yaad-e-Raftagāñ (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia: Maktaba Bayyināt. p. 162.
  9. ^ al-Haq, Maulana Sami (1988). Fani, Muhammad Ibrahim (ed.). Karwān-e-Aakhirat (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak: Mutamar al-amusannifeen. p. 129.
  10. ^ Abu Ghudda 1982, p. 125.
  11. ^ Hina Azam (26 June 2015). Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure. Cambridge University Press. pp. 260–. ISBN 978-1-107-09424-6.
  12. ^ "Hadhrat Abul Wafa Al Afghani". ziaislamic.com. Archived from the original on 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  13. ^ Ibn Zughaibah 2018, pp. 4–5.
  14. ^ "المطبوعات: (لجنة إحياء المعارف النعمانية)" [Publications: (Committee for the Revival of Nu'mani Knowledge)]. almoqtabas.com. Archived from the original on 4 July 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  15. ^ Sadeghi, Behnam (2010). "The Authenticity of Two 2 nd /8 th Century Ḥanafī Legal Texts: the Kitāb al-āthār and al-Muwaṭṭa' of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī". Islamic Law and Society. 17 (3–4): 317. doi:10.1163/156851910X522212. ISSN 0928-9380. JSTOR 23034916.
  16. ^ Mahmūd, Syed Fayyāz; al-Qayyūm, Abd; Azhar, Zuhoor Ahmad (February 1972). Tārīkh-e-Adabiyyāt-e-Musalmānān-e-Pakistan o Hind (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Lahore: Punjab University Press. p. 413.
  17. ^ Rauf, Imam Feisal Abdul (2015). "Shariah and the Objectives of Islamic Law". Defining Islamic Statehood. pp. 17–35. doi:10.1057/9781137446824_2. ISBN 978-1-137-44681-7.
  18. ^ a b Mahmūd, al-Qayyūm & Azhar 1972, p. 413.
  19. ^ Brown, Jonathan (2007-09-30). The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon. BRILL. p. 407. ISBN 978-90-474-2034-7.
  20. ^ Nadvi, Shah Mueenuddin Ahmad, ed. (November 1965). "Imam Muhammad Ki Kitab al-Hujjah Alā Ahl al-Madīnah: Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri" [Imam Muhammad's Kitab al-Hujjah Alā Ahl al-Madīnah by Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri]. Monthly Ma'ārif (in Urdu). Vol. 96, no. 5. Azamgarh: Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy. pp. 325–342.
  21. ^ Sadeghi 2010, pp. 292, 316, 317.
  22. ^ Sadeghi, Behnam (2013-02-11). The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition. Cambridge University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-139-78925-7.
  23. ^ Yanagihashi 2004, p. 313.
  24. ^ Kayadibi, Saim (2019-08-20). Istihsan: The Doctrine of Juristic Preference in Islamic Law. The Other Press. p. 333. ISBN 978-967-5062-47-6.
  25. ^ Sadeghi 2010, p. 316.
  26. ^ Halevi, Leor (2011-07-05). Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society. Columbia University Press. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-231-51193-3.
  27. ^ Abul-Fadl, Mom; Kassim, Husain; Rashid, Hakim M.; Tayob, AbdulKader al; Siddiqui, Mohammad A. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 5:2. International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). pp. 182–183.
  28. ^ Jalaly, Zahid (1 June 2018). "Analysis of Origin, Development and Nature of Islamic International Law" (PDF). Kardan Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 1 (1): 8–9, 18, 24.
  29. ^ Al-Saud, Torki Fahad A. (2019), Abate, Mark T. (ed.), "Notes on the Methodology of Studying the History of the Dhimmis", Convivencia and Medieval Spain: Essays in Honor of Thomas F. Glick, Mediterranean Perspectives, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 131–143, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96481-2_4, ISBN 978-3-319-96481-2, retrieved 2024-07-05
  30. ^ Yanagihashi, Hiroyuki (2004-01-01). A History of the Early Islamic Law of Property: Reconstructing the Legal Development, 7Th-9Th Centuries. BRILL. p. 313. ISBN 978-90-04-13849-0.
  31. ^ Muniri, Abdul Matin (2024-07-02). "مولانا ابو الوفا افغانی اور آپ کا ادارہ لجنۃ المعارف النعمانیہ" [Maulana Abul Wafa Afghani and his organization Lajnat al-Ma'arif al-Numaniyah]. Deoband Online (in Urdu). Archived from the original on 2024-07-04. Retrieved 2024-07-04.

Bibliography

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abul_Wafa_al-Afghani&oldid=1237239369"