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A mujaddid (Template:Lang-ar), according to the popular Muslim tradition, refers to a person who appears at the turn of every century of the Islamic calendar to revive Islam, remove from it any extraneous elements and restore it to its pristine purity. A mujaddid might be a caliph, a saint (wali), a prominent teacher, a scholar or some other kind of influential person.

The concept is based on the following Prophetic tradition (hadith): Abu Hurairah narrated that the Islamic prophet Muhammad said;

"Allah shall raise for this Ummah at the head of every century a man who shall renew (or revive) for it its religion."

— Sunan Abu Dawood, Book 37: Kitab al-Malahim , Hâdith Number 4278.

List of potential Mujaddideen

First Century (after the prophetic period) (August 3, 718)

• Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (682–720)

Second Century (August 10, 815)

• Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i (767–820)

Third Century (August 17, 912)

• Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (874) – (936)

Fourth Century (August 24, 1009)

• Hakim al-Nishaburi (933–1012)
• Ibn Hazm (994–1064)

Fifth Century (September 1, 1106)

• Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058–1111)

Sixth Century (September 9, 1203)

• Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149–1210)

Seventh Century (September 5, 1300)

• Muhammad ibn Arabi (1165–1240)

Eighth Century (September 23, 1397)

• Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (1372–1448)

Ninth Century (October 1, 1494)

• Jalaludin Al-Suyuti (1445–1505)

Tenth Century (October 19, 1591)

• Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (1585–1671)

Eleventh Century (October 26, 1688)

• Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624)
• Imam al-Haddad (1634–1720)

Twelfth Century (November 4, 1785)

• Shah Abdul Aziz Delhwi (1745–1823)
• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792)
• Usman Dan Fodio (1754–1817)

Thirteenth Century (November 14, 1882)

• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908) – Note: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the Mujaddid of the 14th century, a claim which is accepted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, but rejected by other Muslim communities, many of whom regard him as an apostate, however accepted as being a legitimate claim in Islam by some orthodox Muslim scholars such as Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah who writes that "in 1882, he claimed to be Islam's 'centennial renewer'...although contentious, was not heretical in itself."
• Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921)
• Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943)

Fourteenth Century (November 21, 1979)

• Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (1914–1999)
• Mohammed al-Ghazali (1917–1996)

References

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Further reading

• Alvi, Sajida S. "The Mujaddid and Tajdīd Traditions in the Indian Subcontinent: An Historical Overview" ("Hindistan’da Mucaddid ve Tacdîd geleneği: Tarihî bir bakış"). Journal of Turkish Studies 18 (1994): 1–15.
• Friedmann, Yohanan. "Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi: An Outline of His Thought and a Study of His Image in the Eyes of Posterity". Oxford India Paperbacks

External links

• Islami Mehfil, Concept Of Revivalist (Mujaddid) In Islam
• Template:Fr Shah Waliyu Llah about the Mujaddids
• Template:Fr Al Hafiz Adh Dhahabi about the Mujaddids

• Mujaddid