Sanaullah Amritsari

Islamic scholar

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Sanaullah Amritsari

Title| Shaykh al-Islām, Maulana, Sher-e-Punjab[1]
Personal
Born| 12 June 1868

Amritsar, Punjab Province, British India (Present day- Amritsar, Punjab, India

Died| 15 March 1948(1948-03-15) (aged 79)

Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan

Religion| Islam
Region| Amritsar, Punjab, British India
Denomination| Ahl-i Hadith
Creed| Athari
Alma mater|

* Mazahir Uloom
* Darul Uloom Deoband

Founder of| Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind

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.

## Biography[edit]

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]

## Literary works[edit]

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".

## Legacy[edit]

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

## See also[edit]

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

## References[edit]

### Citations[edit]

1. ^ "Biography of Shaykh Al-Islam Thanaullah Amritsari". Umm-ul-Qura Publications. 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020.
2. ^ Ahmad 2019, p. 89.
3. ^ a b Jaffrelot, Christophe; Louer, Laurence (15 January 2018). Pan-Islamic Connections: Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-091160-7.
4. ^ a b "Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Hind". Archived from the original on 12 October 2017.
5. ^ a b Tijarwi 2020, p. 59.
6. ^ Adil Hussain Khan (2015). From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia. Indiana University Press. p. 31\. ISBN 978-0253015297.
7. ^ a b Deobandi, Syed Muhammad Miyan. "Sanaullah Molvi". Silk Letters Movement (PDF). Translated by Muhammadullah Qasmi. Darul Uloom Deoband: Shaikhul Hind Academy. p. 208. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
8. ^ a b c d e f g Rizwi 1981, p. 45-46.
9. ^ a b c Ahmad 2019, p. 90.
10. ^ Ahmad 2019, pp. 90–91.
11. ^ Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi (2007). Challenges to Religions and Islam: A Study of Muslim Movements, Personalities, Issues and Trends. Sarup & Sons. p. 987\. ISBN 978-81-7625-732-9.
12. ^ "Muqaddas Rasool SanaUllah Amritsari Urdu Book". dokumen.tips (in Uzbek). Retrieved 23 June 2021.
13. ^ Faz̤lurraḥmān bin Muḥammad. (11 February 1988). Hazrat Maulana Sanaullah Amritsari. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018 - via Hathi Trust.

### Bibliography[edit]

* 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.

## External links[edit]

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

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