Honourable Companions عـليهم الرضوان

Our Pious Predecessors

Mawlana Abu Majid Muammad Shahid Attari Madani

Jumādā al-Ākhirah is the sixth month of the Islamic calendar. From amongst the Companions رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُم, saints, and scholars that passed away in this month, 99 have been mentioned briefly in the Jumādā al-Ākhirah editions of Monthly Magazine Faizan-e-Madīnah from 1438 AH - 1443 AH.

A further 12 are mentioned in this edition.

Honourable Companions عَـلَيْهِمُ الرِّضْوَانْ

1. Hind b. Abī Hālah Nabbāsh b. Zurārah al-Usaydī al-Tamīmī رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ was the son of Lady Khadījah al-Kubrā رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ عَنْهَا from her first husband and grew up under the care of the final Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. He was extremely eloquent in speech and would describe the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم in a beautiful manner. He also holds the honour of narrating many hadith and was martyred in the Battle of al-Jamal in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 36 AH.[1]

2. Abū Sufyān b. uwayib al-Qarashī al-Āmirī رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُما accepted Islam on the day Makkah was conquered, as did his father uwayib رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ. The latter was from the elderly amongst the Companions عَـلَيْهِمُ الرِّضْوَانْ. Abū Sufyān b. uwayib himself was martyred in the Battle of al-Jamal in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 36 AH.[2]

Righteous saints رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَیْہِمْ

3. Alī b. Abd al-Malik al-Zabīdī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was a famous saint of Yemen, known for his miracles, knowledge, and spiritual gnosis. The shaykh was the founder of the Ribā Afla spiritual lodge. Born in Ramaān 585 AH, he passed away on the 21st of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 699 AH. His resting place, located in the Bāb al-Sihām graveyard of Zabīd, Yemen, is known to be an area in which prayers to Allah are accepted.[3]

4. Abd al-Quddūs al-Gangohī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was born in 861 AH in Kordoli (Faizabad district, UP), India. He passed away on the 24th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 944 AH, in Gangoh (Anbalah district, East Punjab). His resting place is visited in huge numbers. He was granted ilm ladunnī and was a Sufi poet. He also penned Anwār al-Uyūn and Laāʾif Quddūsī.[4]

5. akīm Shāh Muammad Ismāīl Muhimmī al-Qādirī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was born in 1200 AH, in Kahnaur (East Punjab, India). He took part in the war of independence in 1857 CE and was martyred on the 27th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 1274 AH. He was a scholar, spiritual guide, proficient herbalist and Islamic poet. He was also an author, with Riyā al-Adwiyah and Bayā āil al-Safar being his memorable works.[5]

6. Abd al-Razzāq al-Khāliqī al-Naqshbandī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was born in 1308 AH in Kalanaur’s Rohtak district (East Punjab, India). He passed away on the 4th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1403 AH. His resting place is in Dipalpur’s Okara Province near the side of Pakpatan Road. He was a steadfast and accomplished spiritual guide of the Naqshbandiyyah Khāliqiyyah spiritual chain, and the founder of both the Razzāqiyyah spiritual centre and Dār al-Shafqat (orphanage).[6]

Islamic scholars السَّلَام رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ

7. First, we discuss Ibn Fahd Abū al-Fal Jārullāh Muammad b. Abd al-Azīz al-Hāshimī al-Makkī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه. He was an expert scholar, erudite historian, skilled teacher, hadith master of his age, and author of many works. He was born on the 20th of Rajab 891 AH in Makkah and passed away on the 15th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 954 AH.[7]

8. Shaykh al-Islam, Muammad b. Sālim al-ablāwī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was born in the Manūfiyyah province of Egypt in approximately 866 AH. He passed away on the 10th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 966 AH. He was an epitome of humility, full of saintly characteristics, profuse in his acts of worship, and possessed beautiful character. His life was spent in studying and teaching, with people from all spectrums of life coming to him for guidance. Bidāyat al-Qārī fī Khatm al-Bukhārī was authored by him.[8]

9. Shaykh al-Islam, Shihāb al-Dīn Amad b. amzah al-Ramlī al-Shāfiī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, was born in Egypt’s Manūfiyyah province. He passed away in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 957 AH in Cairo and was laid to rest in Jāmi al-Maydān, outside Bāb al-Qanarah. He was a practising scholar, staunch Sufi, Shāfiī jurist, the main hadith scholar of his age and prolific author. His famous compendium of fatwas is known as Fatāwā al-Ramlī.[9]

10. Abū al-Azāˈim Sulān b. Amad b. Salāmah al-Mazzāī al-Mirī al-Azharī al-Shāfiī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was born in 985 AH in Egypt and passed away there on the 17th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1075 AH. He was laid to rest in the Mujāwirīn graveyard of Cairo. He was a leading scholar, an ocean of knowledge, teacher of jurists and Quranic reciters alike, the hadith expert of his time, and profoundly pious. He was a graduate and teacher of Al-Azhar University and the author of many books.[10]

11. Mawlānā Abū al-Maānī Ghulām Rabbānī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه was born in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the 12th of Dhū al-ijjah 1334 AH. His family were prominent for their academia and knowledge. He passed away there on the 4th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1398 AH. Studying with Shaykh Ḥāmid Razā Khān and Muftī Amjad ʿAlī Aʿẓamī rendered him a high-class scholar. He graduated from Dār al-Ulūm Manar al-Islām in Bareilly. He was a reflection of the pious predecessors and an epitome of abstinence and humility. He also taught extensively. His poetic anthology has also been published. His brother is Shaykh al-Qur'ān, Abd al-Ghafūr al-Hazārwī.[11]

12. The lion of the Ahl al-Sunnah, Ināyatullāh al-Qādirī al-Riawī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه, was born in Hardo Baryār (Sheikhupura) on the 17th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1338 AH. He passed away on the 17th of Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1401 AH. His resting place is near Markazī Riawī Jāmi Masjid and Jāmiah Naqshbandiyyah Riawiyyah, Sangla Hill. Having graduated from Dār al-Ulūm Manar al-Islām, Bareilly, he was a scholar, debater, orator, and teacher. He was a spiritual follower of ujjat al-Islam, Shaykh āmid Riā Khān, and both student and spiritual successor of Mawlānā Sardār Amad al-Qādirī. He left behind works such as Tafrī al-Khāir and Tanwīr al-Kalām.[12]



[1] Al-Aṣābah, vol. 6, p. 436

[2] Ibid, vol. 7, p. 154

[3] Al-Ṣūfiyyat wa al-Fuqahāˈ fī al-Yaman, p. 27; Jāmiʿ Karamāt Awliyāˈ, vol. 2, p. 389; Tawarikh Āīnah Taawwuf, p. 85

[4] Encyclopedia Awliyāˈ Kirām, vol. 3, pp. 76-79

[5] Tazkirah Ṣūfiyā-i-Mewāt, pp. 500-510

[6] Encyclopedia Awliyāˈ Kirām, vol. 2, pp. 608-615

[7] Shadharāt al-Dhahab, vol. 8, p. 355; Fahras al-Fahāras, vol. 1, p. 296; Al-Aʿlām li al-Ziriklī, vol. 6, p. 209

[8] Imtāʿ al-Fualāˈ bi tarājim al-Qurraˈ, vol. 2, pp. 282-284; Kawākib al-Sāˈirah, vol. 2, p. 32; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, vol. 8, p. 410

[9] Al-Aʿlām li al-Ziriklī, vol. 1, p. 120; Kawākib al-Sāˈirah, vol. 2, p. 120

[10] Imtāʿ al-Fualāˈ bi tarājim al-Qurraˈ, vol. 2, pp. 135-139; Khulāat al-Athar fī Aʿyān al-Qarn al-adī al-ʿAshar, vol. 2, p. 210

[11] Faizān-i-Shaykh al-Quran, pp. 94-117; Hayāt-e-Muhaddith-e-Āzam, p. 359; Tārīkhī Munāzarē, pp. 10-14

[12] Hayat-e-Muhadith-e-Azam, p. 359


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