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{{Short description|Indian Muslim scholar and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific_prefix = [[Mawlana]]
|name = Syed Ahmad Hashmi
|image = Syed Ahmad Hashmi.jpg
| office1 = [[Rajya Sabha|MP, Rajya Sabha]] for [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]]
| constituency =
| term_start1= 3 April 1974
| term_end1 = 2 April 1980
| term_start2 = 5 July 1980
|term_end2 = 4 July 1986
|office3 = 7th General Secretary of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]]
|term_start5 = 11 August 1973
|term_end5 = 28 January 1980
|predecessor5 = [[Asad Madni]]
|successor5 = [[Asrarul Haq Qasmi]]
|module = {{Infobox religious biography|embed = yes|religion=Islam
|birth_date = {{birth date|1932|1|17|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Darbhanga]], [[British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2001|11|4|1932|1|17}}
|death_place = [[Delhi]], India
|nationality = Indian
|denomination = [[Sunni Islam]]
|jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
|alma_mater = {{bulleted list|[[Madrasa 'Aliya]]|[[Darul Uloom Deoband]]}}
}}}}

'''Syed Ahmad Hashmi''' (17 January 1932 - 4 November 2001) was an Indian Muslim scholar and politician who served as the seventh general secretary of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] and the chairman of [[Passenger Amenities Committee]]. He was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]], upper house of the [[Parliament of India]] representing [[Uttar Pradesh]] for two terms.

==Biography==
Syed Ahmad Hashmi was born on 17 January 1932 in [[Darbhanga]] at the house of his maternal grandfather.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=583}}<ref name="millat">{{cite news |author1=Muhammad Arif Umari |title=مولانا سید احمد ہاشمی: ناظم عمومی جمعیۃ علماء ہند |trans-title=Mawlāna Syed Ahmad Hashmi: The general secretary of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind|url=https://urdu.millattimes.com/archives/20388 |access-date=12 July 2021 |work=Millat Times |date=2 November 2017 |language=ur}}</ref> He was brought up by his brother Syed Muhammad Hashmi, who enrolled him at the Madrasa Dīniya in [[Ghazipur]], where he received his primary education, where he received his primary education from 1940 to 1948. He received his higher education at the [[Madrasa 'Aliya]] in [[Kolkata]] between 1948 and 1954, and graduated from the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] in 1955.<ref name="millat"/>{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=584}} He studied ''[[Sahih Bukhari]]'' and ''[[Jami' al-Tirmidhi]]'' with [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]].{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=569}}

Hashmi stayed at Kolkata between 1957 and 1974, and taught there in the [[madrasa]] of Anjuman Nidā-e-Islām, and served as the general secretary of the [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]]'s West Bengal unit.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=584}} He started two weeklies, ''Armaghān'' and ''Kundan'' there, and the [[Government of West Bengal]] filed a lawsuit against the weekly ''Armaghan'' and it was stopped.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=584}}<ref name="milli"/> He was a member of [[Rajya Sabha]], the upper house of the Indian parliament, from 1974 to 1980 and 1980 to 1986.<ref name="rajya">{{cite web |title=RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1952 - 2003 |url=https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/h.pdf |website=Rajya Sabha (Indian parliament) website|publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] |accessdate=12 July 2021}}</ref> He was appointed the chairman of the [[Delhi Waqf Board]] in 1977 and served as the general secretary of the [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] from 1973 to 1980.<ref name="millat"/> The JUH also made him the manager of its weekly ''Al-Jamiat''. He was a founder member of the [[All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat]] and served it under the capacity of a vice-president. He was a member of the [[All India Muslim Personal Law Board]] and Babri Masjid Action Committee.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=584}} He was a member and then the chairman of the [[Passenger Amenities Committee]].<ref name="milli">{{cite news |author1=Masoom Muradabadi |title=Maulana Sayyid Ahmad Hashmi |url=https://www.milligazette.com/Archives/15012002/1501200207.htm |access-date=12 July 2021 |work=Milli Gazette}}</ref> Later in his life, he dissociated from the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, and formed Milli Jamiat Ulama, existence of which remained limited to the paper only.<ref name="millat"/>

Hashmi died on 4 November 2001 in Delhi.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=563}} His funeral prayer was led by Abdul Ghafar, the then senior hadith professor of Madrasa Alia, Fatehpuri.{{Sfn|Amini|2017|p=585}}

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
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* {{cite book |last1=Amini |first1=Noor Alam Khalil|author-link=Noor Alam Khalil Amini |title=Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah |publisher=Idara Ilm-o-Adab |location=Deoband |pages=563–585 |edition=5 |date=February 2017 |language=Urdu |chapter=Mawlānā Syed Aḥmad Hashmi Ghāzipūrī}}
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==External links==
* [https://rsdebate.nic.in/browse?type=author&value=SYED+AHMAD+HASHMI Syed Ahmad Hashmi's debates at the Rajya Sabha]

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[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:2001 deaths]]
[[Category:Aliah University alumni]]
[[Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]
[[Category:People from Ghazipur]]
[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian politicians]]
[[Category:Deobandis]]

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