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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.

Biography

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. He received his early education at Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar, and later moved to Wazirabad to study hadith under Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi. He then studied with Syed Nazir Hussain in Delhi. He joined Mazahir Uloom for higher education and thereafter completed his studies at Darul Uloom Deoband, where his teachers included Mahmud Hasan Deobandi. He had joined the Deoband seminary in 1890 to study logic, philosophy and Fiqh. He subsequently attended the lectures of Aḥmad Ḥasan at the Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam, in Kanpur.

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. He then became the director of education at the Madrasa Islamiyyah in Maler Kotla. He subsequently stepped into polemics and began debating the proponents of Arya Samaj and specially Ahmadism. He established Ahl-e-Hadith Press in 1903 and published a weekly journal Ahl-e-Hadith which continued for about 44 years. 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. He co-founded the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and had a rank of major general in Junud-e-Rabbania. He was president of Anjuman Ahl-e-Hadith Punjab. He was given the title Sher-e-Punjab for his services to Islam in Punjab.

Amritsari migrated to Gujranwala, Pakistan after Partition of India in 1947 and died on 15 March 1948 in Sargodha.

Literary works

Amritsari wrote pamphlets and books mostly in the refutation of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Syed Mehboob Rizwi has mentioned Tafsir al-Quran be-Kalam al-Rahman, Tafsir-e-Sanai and Taqabul-e-Salasa as his important works.

When Rangila Rasul was written on Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sanaullah Amritsari wrote Muqaddas Rasool as a reply to that book.

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.
• Abdul Majid Sohdri wrote Seerat Sanai.

See also

• Muhammad Hussain Batalvi
• Muhammad Sulaiman Salman Mansoorpuri
• Abdullah Ropari
• Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti

References

Citations

1. "Biography of Shaykh Al-Islam Thanaullah Amritsari". Umm-ul-Qura Publications. 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020.
2. Ahmad 2019, p. 89.
3. ^ Jaffrelot, Christophe; Louer, Laurence (15 January 2018). Pan-Islamic Connections: Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-091160-7.
4. ^ "Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Hind". Archived from the original on 12 October 2017.
5. ^ Tijarwi 2020, p. 59.
6. Adil Hussain Khan (2015). From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia. Indiana University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0253015297.
7. ^ Deobandi, Syed Muhammad Miyan. "Sanaullah Molvi". Silk Letters Movement (PDF). Translated by Muhammadullah Qasmi. Darul Uloom Deoband: Shaikhul Hind Academy. p. 208. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
8. ^ Rizwi 1981, p. 45-46.
9. ^ Ahmad 2019, p. 90.
10. Ahmad 2019, pp. 90–91.
11. Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi (2007). Challenges to Religions and Islam: A Study of Muslim Movements, Personalities, Issues and Trends. Sarup & Sons. p. 987. ISBN 978-81-7625-732-9.
12. "Muqaddas Rasool SanaUllah Amritsari Urdu Book". dokumen.tips (in Uzbek). Retrieved 23 June 2021.
13. Faz̤lurraḥmān bin Muḥammad. (11 February 1988). Hazrat Maulana Sanaullah Amritsari. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018 – via Hathi Trust.

Bibliography

• Adrawi, Asir (April 2016). Karwān-e-Rafta: Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind [The Caravan of the Past: Discussing Indian scholars] (in Urdu) (2nd ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen.
• Rizwi, Syed Mehboob (1981). "Maulana Sana Allah Amritsari". History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband. Vol. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi. Idara-e-Ehtemam, Dar al-Ulum Deoband. pp. 45–46.
• Tijarwi, Muhammad Mushtaq (2020). Fuzala-e-Deoband ki Qur'ānī Khidmāt. Aligarh: Brown Book Publications. pp. 59–65.
• Ahmad, Abrar (2019). "Tafsīr Thanā'ī by Sanaullah Amritsari". In Ab. Majeed, Nazeer Ahmad (ed.). Quran Interpretation in Urdu: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Viva Books. pp. 89–101.

External links

• Tafsir Sanai By Sanaullah Amritsari Archived 9 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine

• 1868 births
• 1948 deaths
• Pakistani Salafis
• Atharis
• Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
• Quranic exegesis scholars
• Critics of Ahmadiyya
• Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent
• Darul Uloom Deoband alumni
• Students of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
• Founders of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind
• Ahl-i Hadith people
• Mazahir Uloom alumni
• Hinduism and Islam