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Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Junagarhi
Personal
Born1891 (1891)
Died1941(1941-00-00) (aged 50–51)
ReligionIslam

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Junagarhi (also known as Muhammad Junagarhi; 1890-1941) was a British Indian Islamic scholar, muhaddith, author and translator, who co-founded the All-India Ahl-i Hadith Conference, and served as the president of All-India Ahl-i Hadith Conference. He translated Ibn Qayyim's I'laam ul Muwaqqi'een 'an Rabb il 'Aalameen and Ibn Kathir's exegesis of the Quran into Urdu language. [1]

Biography

Muhammad Junagarhi was born in 1890 in the state of Junagadh to Ibrahim and belonged to Memon ethnic group. [2] He was thus known as Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Junagarhi. [3] [4] He completed his early education from the town and later moved to Delhi for higher education. [5] In Delhi, he studied at the Madrasa Aminia. [6] He discontinued his studies at the Aminia and went to Madrasa Darul Kitaba wa- al-Sunnah of Abdul Wahhab Multani, from where he graduated. [6]

Junagarhi co-founded the All-India Ahl-i Hadith Conference and served as the president of the All-India Ahl-i Hadith Conference. [7] He died in 1941 at the age of 51. [8] He was known with the title of Khateeb e Hind. [a] [5]

Literary works

Junagarhi translated Tafseer ibn Katheer and Ibn Qayyim's I'laam ul Muwaqqi'een 'an Rabb il 'Aalameen into Urdu language. His other works include: [9]

  • Saif-i Muḥammadī
  • Shamʻ-i Muḥammadī
  • Tafseer Ahsanul-Bayan, a translation of the Quran with commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf.

Notes

  1. ^ Khateeb e Hind is a title given to Islamic scholar for their scholarship. Many scholars may be known by Khateeb e Hind.

References

  1. ^ Iraqi 2007, p. 67.
  2. ^ Junagarhi 2006, p. 10.
  3. ^ Khan, Mofakhkhar Hussain (2001). The Holy Qur'ãn in South Asia: A Bio-bibliographic Study of Translations of the Holy Qurʼãn in 23 South Asian Languages. Bibi Akhtar Prakãs̆ani. p. 520.
  4. ^ The Pakistan National Bibliography. Government of Pakistan, Directorate of Archives & Libraries, National Bibliographical Unit. 1985. p. 20.
  5. ^ a b Mohammadi 2019, p. 548.
  6. ^ a b Wahajuddin Hashmi (15 April 2021). "مولانا محمد جوناگڑھی :بلند پایہ خطیب، مستند مفسر". Dawat News. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  7. ^ Syed, Jawad (2016). Faith-based violence and Deobandi militancy in Pakistan. Edwina Pio, Tahir Kamran, Abbas Zaidi (1 ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 323. ISBN  978-1-349-94966-3. OCLC  962831215.
  8. ^ Junagarhi 2006, p. 14.
  9. ^ "Books by Muhammad Junagarhi". WorldCat. Retrieved 13 July 2021.

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