Imamuddin Punjabi

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.

Imāmuddīn Punjabi
Personal
Born
Batala
Died1916
Mau, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Alma materDarul Uloom Deoband
Founder ofJamia Miftahul Uloom

Family background

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

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

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
  • 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.

References
  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. pp. 14, 16.
  5. Asir Adrawi. Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta (in Urdu) (2 April 2016 ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen. pp. 42–43.
  6. Adrawi, Asīr. Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi. pp. 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. pp. 68, 71, 76, 79, 82.
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