Syed Ahmad Dehlavi (academic)

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Syed Ahmad Dehlavi
2nd Principal and Sheikh al-Hadith of Darul Uloom Deoband
In office
1884–1890
Preceded byYaqub Nanautawi
Succeeded byMahmud Hasan Deobandi
Personal
Died1894 AD (1311 AH)
Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni Islam
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi
OccupationIslamic scholar, muhaddith

Syed Ahmad Dehlavi (d. 1894) was an Indian Muslim academician and hadith scholar who served as the second principal and Sheikh al-Hadith of Darul Uloom Deoband between 1884 and 1890. He specialised in Islamic astronomy and mathematics. His students included Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri.

Biography[edit]

Syed Ahmed Dehlvi belonged to a Sayyid family in Delhi. His father, Maulvi Imamuddin, privately tutored Mughal princes, and his maternal uncle, Mir Syed Mehboob Ali Jafari, was a student of Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi.[1][2]

Syed pledged allegiance to Qasim Nanawtawi in Sufism. In 1868 AD (1285 AH), he began his career as a teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband and succeeded Yaqub Nanautawi as the seminary's second principal and Sheikh al-Hadith (Senior Professor of Hadith) in 1886 (Rabi' al-Thani 1302 AH). He resigned from the seminary in 1890 AD (1307 AH) and joined Madrasa Jahangiri in Bhopal as a principal and rector at the invitation of Shah Jahan Begum.[3][4][5][6][7]

During his tenure as principal at Darul Uloom Deoband, thirty students completed graduation in Dars-e-Nizami, including Ghulam Rasool Hazarvi and Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri.[8][7] Muhammad Yasin Deobandi and Abdul Hayy Hasani were also among his students in Deoband and Bhopal, respectively.[9][10][11]

He died in Bhopal in 1894 (1311 AH).[1][2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Nadwi 1970, p. 62.
  2. ^ a b ar-Rahman 1976, p. 35.
  3. ^ Nadwi, Abul Hasan Ali Hasani (November 1970). Hayāt-e-Abdul Hai [The life of Abdul Hai] (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Delhi: Nadwatul Musannifeen. pp. 61–62.
  4. ^ Rizwi, Syed Mehboob (1981). History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband. Vol. 2. Translated by Murtaz Hussain F Qureshi. UP, India: Idara-e Ihtemam, Darul Uloom Deoband. pp. 131–132. OCLC 20222197.
  5. ^ Qasmi, Muhammadullah (October 2020). Darul Uloom Deoband Ki Jame O Mukhtasar Tareekh (in Urdu) (2nd ed.). India: Shaikh-Ul-Hind Academy. pp. 505–506, 748. OCLC 1345466013.
  6. ^ ar-Rahman, Fuyūz (1976). "Maulana Sharif Hasan Sahab". Mashāhīr-e-Ulama-e-Deoband (in Urdu). Urdu Bazar, Lahore: Azīzia Book Depot. pp. 34–35.
  7. ^ a b Tayyib, Qari Muhammad (June 1965). Darul Uloom Deoband Ki Sad-Sāla Zindagi [Centenary Life of Darul Uloom Deoband] (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Deoband: VC Office, Darul Uloom. p. 98.
  8. ^ Qasmi, Muhammad Tayyib (2013). Darul Uloom Diary: Disciples of Imām al-Falsafa Maulana Syed Ahmad Dehlavi and Shaikhul Hind Maulana Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (in Urdu). Deoband: Idara Paigham-e-Mahmud. p. 37.
  9. ^ ar-Rahman 1976, p. 24.
  10. ^ Deobandi, Muhammad Shafi (December 2005). Mere Walid-e-Mājid Aur Unke Mujarrab Amaliyyāt (in Urdu). Karachi: Idārat-ul-Ma'ārif. p. 62.
  11. ^ Nadwi 1970, p. 61.
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