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Imamuddin Punjabi

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Imāmuddīn Punjabi
Personal
Born
Died1916
Alma materDarul Uloom Deoband
Organization
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.

Biography

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

Imamuddin was born in Batala, a city now in the Indian state of Punjab.[3] He studied ahādith with Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri[4] and graduated in the traditional dars-e-nizami from Darul Uloom Deoband.[5] After completing his studies from the Deoband seminary, he pledged allegiance to Fazle Rahmān Ganj Murādābādi in Sufism.[6]

Imamuddin moved to Maunath Bhanjan in 1298 AH.[7] He established Jamia Miftahul Uloom, a known seminary in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He died in 1916 in Mau in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.[4]

Literary works

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Books include:[8]

  • 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

References

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  1. ^ Adrawi 2016, p. 15.
  2. ^ Adrawi, Asīr (2016). ولی و شیخ: مولانا امام الدین پنجابی [The scholar and Friend of Allāh: Mawlānā Imāmuddīn Punjabi] (in Urdu). Deoria, Uttar Pradesh: Qamr al-Bāri M.Sc. pp. 16–17.
  3. ^ Adrawi 2016, pp. 14–16.
  4. ^ a b Adrawi 2016, pp. 42–43.
  5. ^ Adrawi 2016, pp. 27–28.
  6. ^ Adrawi 2016, p. 22.
  7. ^ Adrawi 2016, p. 33.
  8. ^ Adrawi 2016, p. 68, 71, 76, 79, 82.