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{{short description|Indian-born Saudi Arabian theologian}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| religion = [[Islam]]
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| death_date = {{death date and age |2020|7|30 |1943 |df=yes}}
| influences =
| name = Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi
| native_name = محمد ضياء الرحمان الأعظمي
|other_names = Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAbdillāh Al-A’zami
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Banke Raam
| birth_place = [[Bilariaganj]], [[United Provinces (1937–50)|United Provinces]], [[British India]]<br /><small>(present-day [[Uttar Pradesh]], India)</small>
| birth_date = 1943
| honorific =
| nationality = [[Saudis|Saudi Arabian]]
| alma_mater = {{bulleted list|[[Jamia Darussalam]]|[[Islamic University of Madinah]]|[[Umm al-Qura University]]|[[Al-Azhar University]]}}
| creed =
| occupation = {{hlist|Author|professor|[[Dean (education)|Dean]]|[[Islamic scholar]]}}
| title =
| website =
| death_place = [[Madinah]], Saudi Arabia
| movement = Salafi
}}
'''Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi''' (also written as '''Dhiya-ur-Rahman A'zamī'''; 1943 – 30 July 2020) was an [[Indian Saudis|Indian-born Saudi Arabian]] Islamic scholar who served as the [[Dean (education)|Dean]] of the Department of Hadith at the [[Islamic University of Madinah]]. He is known for his compilation of [[hadith]] titled a''l-Jaami’ ul-kamil fi al-hadith al-sahih al-shamil''.

==Biography==
Ziya-ur-Rahman Azmi was born Banke Laal into a [[Hindu]] Family<ref>{{cite web |title=الأوقاف تنعى الشيخ المحدث محمد ضياء الأعظمي |url=https://alray.ps/ar/post/217056/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D8%B8%D9%85%D9%8A |website=alray.ps |publisher=الراي |access-date=30 December 2021}}</ref> in 1943 in [[Azamgarh]].{{Sfn|Nadwi|2020}}<ref name="express">{{cite news |title=ہندو مذہب چھوڑ کر ممتاز محدث بننے والے عالم دین ضیا الرحمان اعظمی انتقال کرگئے |trans-title=Famous Islamic scholar Zia ur Rahman Azmi who left Hinduism and became exemplary hadith scholar passed away|url=https://www.express.pk/story/2064075/10 |work=[[Express News (TV channel)|Express News]] |date=31 July 2020 |language=ur}}</ref> Aged 15, he embraced [[Islam]] in 1960.<ref name="express"/>{{Sfn|Khokhar|2020}} He received his primary education in a local school and then enrolled at the [[Shibli National College, Azamgarh|Shibli National College]] in Azamgarh.{{Sfn|Bhatti|2012|p=74}} He began studying the traditional [[dars-e-nizami]] at the [[Jamia Darussalam]] in [[Oomerabad]], and received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] and an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in Islamic studies from the [[Islamic University of Madinah]] and the [[Umm al-Qura University]] respectively.{{Sfn|Nadwi|2020}} He wrote his [[Doctorate of Philosophy|doctoral thesis]] at the [[Al-Azhar University]].{{Sfn|Nadwi|2020}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/174057/|title=Journey from Hinduism to Islam to professor of Hadith in Madinah|date=3 March 2017|website=Saudigazette}}</ref>

Azmi was appointed professor at the Islamic University of Madinah and was later awarded Saudi Arabian citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.siasat.com/reverted-indian-origin-scholar-zia-ur-rahman-azmi-passes-away-in-madinah-1934253/|title=Indian-origin scholar Zia ur Rahman Azmi passes away in Madinah|date=31 July 2020|website=Siasat}}</ref> He died on 30 July 2020.{{Sfn|Nadwi|2020}}

==Books==
Azmi authored a''l-Jaami’ ul-kamil fi al-hadith al-sahih al-shamil,'' also known as Jami ul Kamil'', a collection of sound [[hadith]] narrations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Azmi |first1=Zakir |title=Journey from Hinduism to Islam to professor of Hadith in Madinah |url=https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/174057 |access-date=27 December 2021 |work=Saudi Gazette |date=3 March 2017}}</ref>{{Sfn|Tariq|2020}} According to Islamic scholar [[Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti]], "this is such a work that no one has done before."{{Sfn|Bhatti|2012|p=75}}

Azmi collected and compiled all the available traditions from [[Abu Hurairah]] after an Egyptian [[Quranism|hadith rejector]] Muhammad Aburiyah wrote ''Abū Hurayrah wa marwīyatih'' following in the footsteps of [[Goldziher]]. Azmi named the compilation as ''''Abū Hurayrah wa marwīyatih'' and wrote several detailed discourses in it defending the [[hadith]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ghazi |first1=Mahmood Ahmad |author1-link=Mahmood Ahmed Ghazi |title=Muhazrat-e-Hadith |date=March 2010 |publisher=Al-Faisal Nashran |location=Lahore |isbn=969-503-345-8 |page=287}}</ref> He gained access to rare manuscripts of ''Aqḍiyat Rasūl Allāh'', a work by Andalusian Maliki scholar, Muḥammad ibn Faraj Ibn al-Ṭallā, who lived between 404 [[Hijri year|AH]] and 497 AH.{{Sfn|Bhatti|2015|pp=590-591}} Azmi studied these manuscripts and gave the general Islamic academia its access.{{Sfn|Bhatti|2015|pp=590–591}} His other works include:<ref>{{cite web |title=Muḥammad Ḍiyāʼ al-Raḥmān Aʻẓamī |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84009909/ |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |access-date=27 December 2021}}</ref>
* ''Abū Hurayrah fī ḍawʼ marwīyatih: dirāsah muqāranah fī miʼat ḥadīth min marwīyātih''
* ''Dirāsāt fī al-jarḥ wa-al-taʻdīl''
* ''al-Minnah al-kubrá: sharḥ wa-takhrīj al-Sunan al-ṣughrá lil-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī''
* ''Muʻjam muṣṭalaḥāt al-ḥadīth wa-laṭāʼif al-asānīd''
* ''Dirāsāt fī al-Yahūdīyah wa-al-Masīḥīyah wa-adyān al-Hind''
* ''al-Yahūdīyah wa-al-Masīḥīyah''
* ''Fuṣūl fī adyān al-Hind: al-Hindūsīyah wa-al-Būdhīyah wa-al-Jaynīyah wa-al-Sīkhīyah wa-ʻalāqat al-taṣawwuf bi-hā''
* ''Tahiyyat al-Masjid''<ref>{{cite web |last1=البطاوى |first1=رضا |title=نظرات فى كتاب تحية المسجد |url=https://pulpit.alwatanvoice.com/articles/2020/11/26/535372.html |website=alwatanvoice.com |publisher=دنيا الوطن |access-date=30 December 2021}}</ref>

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
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* {{cite book |last1=Bhatti |first1=Muhammad Ishaq |authorlink=Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti|title=Barr-e-Sagheer mai Ahle Hadees ki Awwaliyaat |date=2012 |publisher=Dar Abi al-Tayyib |location=[[Gujranwala]] |pages=74–76 |language=ur |chapter=Dr. Ziaur Rahman Azmi}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bhatti |first1=Muhammad Ishaq |title=Chamnistan-e-Hadees |trans-title= The Garden of Hadith|date=2015 |publisher=Maktaba Quddoosia |location=Lahore |pages=585–594}}
* {{cite news |last1=Nadwi |first1=Razi ul Islam |title=اسلام کا بیٹا : ضیاء الرحمن |trans-title=The Son of Islam: Ziya ur Rahman|url=https://urdu.millattimes.com/archives/59133 |access-date=27 December 2021 |work=Millat Times |date=30 July 2020 |language=ur}}
* {{cite news |last1=Khokhar |first1=Muhammad Sadiq |title=پروفیسر ضیاء الرحمٰن اعظمی کی رحلت |trans-title=The death of Professor Zia ur Rahman Azmi |url=https://jang.com.pk/news/809979 |access-date=27 December 2021 |work=[[Daily Jang]] |date=18 August 2020 |language=ur}}
* {{cite news |last1=Tariq |first1=Lubna |title=اعظم گڑھ کا ہندو کیسے مدینہ یونیورسٹی اور مسجد نبوی کا معلم بن گیا |trans-title=How did a Hindu of Azamgarh became professor of the Medina University and Masjid Nabawi|url=https://www.baseeratonline.com/109641 |access-date=27 December 2021 |work=Baseerat Online |date=30 June 2020 |language=ur}}
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last1=Azmi |first1=Muhammad Khalid |title=گنگا سے زم زم تک کا روحانی و علمی سفر |trans-title= The Spiritual and Academic Journey from the Ganges to the Zamzam|date=September 2020 |publisher=Al-Manar Publishing House |location=New Delhi |language=ur}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Siddiqi |first1=Irfan |authorlink= Irfan Siddiqui|title=بلریاگنج سے جنت البقیع تک |journal=Urdu Digest |date=September 2020 |volume=60 |issue=9 |pages=41–53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlsGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |access-date=27 December 2021 |trans-title=From Bilariaganj to the Jannat al-Baqi' |location=Lahore |language=ur}}

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