Imamuddin Punjabi

From Bharatpedia, an open encyclopedia


Imāmuddīn Punjabi
Personal
Born
Died1916
Alma materDarul Uloom Deoband
Founder ofJamia Miftahul Uloom

Abu al-Fadhl Imāmuddīn Khān Barāwli Chhachhrī[1] (commonly known as Imamuddin Punjabi) (died 1916) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who established the Jamia Miftahul Uloom.

Family background[edit]

Imāmuddīn Punjabi's predecessors hailed from the area of Brawl, Bajaur.[2]They had relocated to Chhachh, and then finally settled in the Kāla Noor area of Batala in Punjab.[3]

Biography[edit]

Imāmuddīn Punjabi was born in Batala, a city now in the Indian state of Punjab.[4] He studied ahādith with Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri[5] and graduated in the traditional dars-e-nizami from Darul Uloom Deoband.[6] After completing his studies from the Deoband seminary, Punjabi pledged allegiance to Fazle Rahmān Ganj Murādābādi in Sufism.[7]

Punjabi moved to Maunath Bhanjan in 1298 AH.[8] He established Jamia Miftahul Uloom, a known seminary in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.[5]

Punjabi died in 1916 in Mau in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.[5]

Literary works[edit]

Books include: [9]

  • al-Balāgh al-Mubīn
  • Tab'yīn al-Kalām fi daf' il-Khisām
  • Masābīh al-Itlā ala al-Tahrīm al-Tawājud wa al-Simā
  • Rabī al-Anwār
  • Eīdayn ki namāz ka waqt

Bibliography[edit]

  • Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi [The scholar and Friend of Allāh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi] (in Urdu). Deoria, Uttar Pradesh: Qamr al-Bāri M.Sc.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

References[edit]

  1. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 15.
  2. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 16.
  3. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 17.
  4. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 14, 16.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Asir Adrawi. Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta (in Urdu) (2 April 2016 ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen. pp. 42–43.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  6. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 27-28.
  7. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 22.
  8. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 33.
  9. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. p. 68, 71, 76, 79, 82.