Sanaullah Amritsari

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Abul Wafa Sanaullah Amritsari (12 June 1868 – 15 March 1948) was a British Indian, later Pakistani, Muslim scholar and a leading figure within the Ahl-e-Hadith movement who was active in the city of Amritsar, Punjab. He was an alumnus of Mazahir Uloom and the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a major antagonist of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the early Ahmadiya movement. He served as the general secretary of the All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-i-Hadith from 1906 to 1947 and was the editor of the Ahl-e-Hadees, a weekly magazine.

Sanaullah Amritsari's ancestors hailed from Doru Shahabad, a town in Jammu and Kashmir. He was born in 1868 in Amritsar, where his father had settled permanently.^[2] He received his early education at Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar,^[3] and later moved to Wazirabad to study hadith under Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi.^[4] He then studied with Syed Nazir Hussain in Delhi.^[5][6] He joined Mazahir Uloom for higher education and thereafter completed his studies at Darul Uloom Deoband, where his teachers included Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.^[7][8][5] He had joined the Deoband seminary in 1890 to study logic, philosophy and Fiqh.^[8] He subsequently attended the lectures of Aḥmad Ḥasan at the Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam, in Kanpur.^[9]

Amritsari started his career with teaching at his alma mater Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar, in 1893, and taught the books of Dars-i Nizami.^[9] He then became the director of education at the Madrasa Islamiyyah in Maler Kotla.^[9] He subsequently stepped into polemics and began debating the proponents of Arya Samaj and specially Ahmadism.^[10] He established Ahl-e-Hadith Press in 1903 and published a weekly journal Ahl-e-Hadith which continued for about 44 years.^[8] He was a leading figure of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement and served as the general secretary of All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-Hadith from 1906 to 1947.^[3][4] He co-founded the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and had a rank of major general in Junud-e-Rabbania.^[8] He was president of Anjuman Ahl-e-Hadith Punjab.^[7] He was given the title Sher-e-Punjab for his services to Islam in Punjab.^[8]

Amritsari migrated to Gujranwala, Pakistan after Partition of India in 1947 and died on 15 March 1948 in Sargodha.^[8]

Amritsari wrote pamphlets and books mostly in the refutation of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.^[11] Syed Mehboob Rizwi has mentioned Tafsir al-Quran be-Kalam al-Rahman, Tafsir-e-Sanai and Taqabul-e-Salasa as his important works.^[8]

When Rangila Rasul was written on Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sanaullah Amritsari wrote Muqaddas Rasool as a reply to that book.^[12]

He also wrote the book "Haq Prakash" in answer to Dayananda Saraswati's book "Satyarth Prakash".

• Faz̤lurraḥmān bin Muḥammad wrote Hazrat Maulana Sanaullah Amritsari.^[13]
• Abdul Majid Sohdri wrote Seerat Sanai.

• Muhammad Hussain Batalvi
• Muhammad Sulaiman Salman Mansoorpuri
• Abdullah Ropari
• Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti

• Adrawi, Asir (April 2016). Karwān-e-Rafta: Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind [The Caravan of the Past: Discussing Indian scholars] (in Urdu) (2nd ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen.
• Rizwi, Syed Mehboob (1981). "Maulana Sana Allah Amritsari". History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband. Vol. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi. Idara-e-Ehtemam, Dar al-Ulum Deoband. pp. 45–46.
• Tijarwi, Muhammad Mushtaq (2020). Fuzala-e-Deoband ki Qur'ānī Khidmāt. Aligarh: Brown Book Publications. pp. 59–65.
• Ahmad, Abrar (2019). "Tafsīr Thanā'ī by Sanaullah Amritsari". In Ab. Majeed, Nazeer Ahmad (ed.). Quran Interpretation in Urdu: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Viva Books. pp. 89–101.

• Tafsir Sanai By Sanaullah Amritsari Archived 9 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine