Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Intro To AlaHadrat 1.0
Intro To AlaHadrat 1.0
Intro To AlaHadrat 1.0
M U F T Ī SALMĀN AL-NŪRĪ
MUFTĪ ‘ASAD AL-QĀDIRĪ
INTRO TO ‘A`LĀ ḤAḌRAT 1.0
Copyright © 2023 TheSunniWay
All rights reserved.
Printing rights granted upon request.
contact@thesunniway.com
ISBN: 978-1-957773-25-4
CONTENTS
00 NOTE
30 OBEDIENCE TO
SHARĪ`AH
01 BIOGRAPHY OF
‘A`LĀ ḤAḌRAT 32 EIDETIC MEMORY
01 HOUSEHOLD
CONDITIONS 35 EXPERTISE IN
MATHEMATICS
03 HIS BIRTH
37 KANZ AL-‘ĪMAN
06 HIS EDUCATION
38 LITERARY WORKS
17 HIS OFFSPRING
42 THE DEMISE
18 THE HONOR OF
BAY`AH 43 THE TIMELINE
23 TEACHING
53 TRANSLITERATION
KEY
28 JOURNEY OF ḤAJJ
AND ZIYĀRAH
-
T
The following is a brief biography of Sayyidunā
‘A`lā Ḥaḍrat, the revivalist of the fourteenth
century, ‘Imām ‘Aḥmad Riḍā’ Khān, Allāh is
pleased with him, penned by the Honorable `Allāmah,
Sayyid Shāh Turāb al-Ḥaq al-Qādirī and translated into
English by this servant. Attached to this biography is a
detailed chronology of key events in the blessed lifetime of
Sayyidunā ‘A`lā Ḥaḍrat by Muftī Sayyid ‘Asad al-Qādirī,
may Allāh elongate his noble shadow.
This comprehensive work was inspired and organized by
Muftī Sayyid ‘Asad al-Qādirī, under the leadership of the
Honorable Muftī Zāhid Ḥussain al-Qādirī, may Allāh
preserve him. I would like to extend my gratitude to them
and everyone who helped complete this project, especially
Muftī Sayyid `Abdul Ṣamad for his support and dedicating
his precious time to proofreading. May Allāh reward them
immensely for their service and keep them protected as they
continue to serve the ‘Ahl al-Sunnah.
HOUSEHOLD CONDITIONS
2
HIS BIRTH
3
ُ ُ َ ََ ْ ُُ َ َ ٰ ُ
ْﻨﻪCِّ ﺑُِﺮْوٍح5ْ?ﻳَْﻤﺎَن َوأﻳّﺪ8ِ7 ا5ُِ4ِﺑ1ْ0 ﻗ.ِ - أوﻟِ&ﻚ ﻛَﺘَﺐ
They are the ones in whose hearts Allāh has engraved faith and has
aided them with a rūḥ from Himself.1
- - '
ا65 ں.=<4 ں دو.34 :,) ا984 20- ا65 ں.34 201 م.,- !"وں & )(*ے
- -
FE)DC ں.=<4 !"وڑوں.J)I !"وں *اH@4 BG4 FE)DC BA@4 ?> ں.=<4 دو
1 Sūrah al-Mujādalah: 22
4
He then describes the virtue and blessings of his forefathers
by saying:
ُ َ َ
ًﺎKJِﺎَن أﺑ ُْﻮﻫَﻤﺎ َﺻﺎFَو
Their father was a righteous man.2
2 Sūrah al-Kahf: 82
3 al-Malfūẓ, Vol. 3
5
HIS EDUCATION
6
Books of Shafi`ī, Mālikī, Jurisprudence of Other
6
and Ḥanbalī Fiqh Schools
17 Falsafah Philosophy
Numeracy until
`Ilm al-Ḥisāb until Jama`, Addition, Subtraction,
20
Tafrīq, Ḍarb, and Taqsīm Multiplication, and
Division
24 Taṣawwuf Sufism
25 Sulūk Spirituality
Biographical Evaluation
27 ‘Asmā’ al-Rijāl
of Narrators
28 Siyar Biographies
29 Tawārīkh Histories
Lexicology and
30 Lughah
Etymology
9
Literature and
31 ‘Adab ma`a Jumlah Funūn
Associated Sciences
32 ‘Arithmāṭīqī Arithmetic
35 Loghārithmāt Logarithms
Chronometry,
36 `Ilm al-Tawqīt Calculation of Timings
and Prayer Schedules
37 Munāẓarah Debate
39 Zījāt Astrometry
10
41 Muthallath al-Musaṭṭaḥ Plane Trigonometry
11
51 ‘Inshā’ al-Nathr al-Fārsī Persian Composition
13
MAWLĀNĀ [SAYYID SULAYMĀN BIHĀRĪ] ADVISED
H I M : “Go to Bareilly and ask ‘A`lā Ḥaḍrat ‘Imām ‘Aḥmad
Riḍā’. If Allāh, the Exalted, wills, he will surely solve it.”
H O W E V E R , T H E V I C E C H A N C E L L O R S A I D : “What can
he solve?” and began preparing to travel to Europe. When
the aforementioned Mawlānā told him to go to Bareilly for a
third time, he exclaimed in an enraged tone, “Mawlānā,
logic should be considered. What kind of a suggestion are
you giving me?”
M A W L Ā N Ā R E S P O N D E D T O T H I S S A Y I N G : “What harm
is there in this after all? Compared to such a long journey,
traveling to Bareilly is nothing. The vehicle goes straight
from Aligarh, and it is a journey of a few hours. At least go
there and see!”
14
Upon this, he had finally understood. Hence, Mawlānā
Sayyid Sulaymān ‘Ashraf Ṣāḥib took him along with himself
to Marehra Sharīf, and from there, [he took] ‘A`lā Ḥaḍrat’s
eminent pīr-zādah,7 Ḥaḍrat Sayyid Mahdī Ḥasan Ṣāḥib, the
spiritual successor, to Bareilly Sharīf and reached ‘A`lā
Ḥaḍrat’s abode. ‘A`lā Ḥaḍrat greeted them and asked him
the reason for coming.
‘ A ` L Ā Ḥ A Ḍ R A T S A I D : “Ask.”
H E [ V I C E C H A N C E L L O R ] I M P U L S I V E L Y S A I D : “I used to
hear how there is such a thing as `Ilm Ladunnī (divinely
inspired knowledge). Today, I have seen it with my own eyes.
I had wished to go to Germany in an effort to solve this
problem, until our professor, Mawlānā Sulaymān ‘Ashraf
17
THE HONOR OF BAY`AH
SHUYŪKH OF
# THE CHAIN
DATE OF DEMISE CITY OF SHRINE
Sayyidunā
Muḥammad al- Rabī` al-‘Awwal 12th,
1 Muṣṭafā 11 AH
Madīnah Munawwarah
18
Sayyidunā Ḥusayn Muḥarram 10th,
3 61 AH
Karbala, Iraq
Sayyidunā
Dhū al-Ḥijjah 7th,
5 Muḥammad al-Bāqir Madīnah Munawwarah
114 AH
Sayyidunā Ma`rūf
Muḥarram 2nd,
9 al-Karkhī 200 AH
Baghdad, Iraq
Sayyidunā Junayd
Rajab 27th,
11 al-Baghdādī Baghdad, Iraq
298 AH
Sayyidunā ‘Abū
Dhū al-Ḥijjah 27th,
12 Bakr al-Shiblī Baghdad, Iraq
334 AH
19
Sayyidunā ‘Abū al-
Sha`bān 3rd,
14 Faraḥ al-Ṭarṭūsī Baghdad, Iraq
447 AH
Sayyidunā ‘Abū
Muḥarram 12th,
16 Sa`īd al-Makhẓūmī Baghdad, Iraq
513 AH
Sayyidunā al-
Rabī` al-‘Ākhir 11th,
17 Ghawth al-A`ẓam Baghdad, Iraq
561 AH
Sayyidunā ‘Abū
Rajab 27th,
19 Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Baghdad, Iraq
632 AH
Sayyidunā ‘Aḥmad
Muḥarram 19th,
24 al-Jīlānī 853 AH
Baghdad, Iraq
20
Sayyidunā Bahā’ al-
Dhū al-Ḥijjah 11th,
25 Dīn 921 AH
Daulatabad, India
Sayyidunā ‘Ibrāhīm
Rabī` al-‘Ākhir 15th,
26 al-‘Īrajī Delhi, India
953 AH
Sayyidunā
Muḥammad Niẓām Dhū al-Qa`dah 9th,
27 al-Dīn Bihkārī 981 AH
Kakori, India
Sayyidunā al-Qāḍī
Rajab 21st,
28 Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Unnao, India
989 AH
Sayyidunā
Sha`bān 6th,
30 Muḥammad 1071 AH
Kalpi, India
Sayyidunā Faḍl
Dhū al-Qa`dah 14th,
32 Allāh Kalpi, India
1111 AH
Sayyidunā Barakah
Muḥarram 10th,
33 Allāh Marehra, India
1142 AH
Sayyidunā ‘Āl-e-
Ramaḍān 16th,
34 Muḥammad Marehra, India
1164 AH
Sayyidunā al-Shāh
Muḥarram 14th,
35 Ḥamzah 1198 AH
Marehra, India
21
Sayyidunā ‘Āl-e-
‘Aḥmad ‘Achay Rabī` al-‘Awwal 17th,
36 Miyāñ 1225 AH
Marehra, India
Sayyidunā al-Shāh
‘Āl-e-Rasūl al- Dhū al-Ḥijjah 18th,
37 ‘Aḥmadī 1296 AH
Marehra, India
Sayyidunā ‘Abū al-
Ḥusayn ‘Aḥmad al- Rajab 11th,
38 Nūrī 1324 AH
Marehra, India
Sayyidunā ‘Aḥmad
Ṣafar 25th,
39 Riḍā’ Khān Bareilly, India
1340 AH
22
TEACHING
23
Therefore, you all have come here out of your own
desire.”
24
Mawlānā Muḥammad Na`īm al-Dīn Dhū al-Ḥijjah 18th, 1367 AH
6 Murād-‘Ābādī October 20th, 1948 AD
25
Mawlānā Sharīf al-Dīn Kowtalwī Rabī` al-‘Ākhir 6th, 1370 AH
17 January 15th, 1951 AD
26
Professor Sayyid Sulaymān ‘Ashraf Bihārī Rabī` al-‘Awwal 5th, 1358 AH
28 April 25th, 1939 AD
27
JOURNEY OF ḤAJJ AND ZIYĀRAH
In 1295 AH, ‘A`lā Ḥaḍrat went for the ḥajj of Allāh’s House,
with his noble father, where he received certification in
Ḥadīth from the senior `ulamā’ of Arabia. One day, he was
praying ṣalāh at the Maqām ‘Ibrāhīm and after the ṣalāh, the
‘imām of the Shāfi`īyah, Ḥaḍrat Ḥusayn ‘ibn Ṣāliḥ Jamal al-
Layl, gripped his hand without any introduction and took
him along to his home, and then held onto his forehead and
said:
ّ
ZYﺒWJ ﻫﺬا ا.- UTSﺟﺪ ﻧﻮر اO7 .Nإ
Indeed, I find the light of Allāh in this forehead!
However, such did not occur on the first night. So, with a
heavy heart, he wrote a poem whose opening couplet is this:
29
OBEDIENCE TO THE SHARĪ`AH
30
Rather, he preceded to every row with his right foot.
To the point that he stepped onto the muṣallā in the
miḥrāb with his right foot first. And it is not even limited
to just this; aside from cleaning the blessed nose and
performing ‘istinjā’, every act of His Eminence used to
commence from the right.
31
EIDETIC MEMORY
Ḥ A Ḍ R A T M U Ḥ A D D I T H S Ū R A T Ī Ṣ Ā Ḥ I B S A I D : “It is in my
library.”
32
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HE [MUḤADDITH SŪRATĪ]
S A I D : “When you are done reading it, then have it sent back
because you have many books with you, but I only have these
few books with me that I use to issue fatwā.”
‘ A ` L Ā Ḥ A Ḍ R A T S A I D : “Okay.”
33
ḤAḌRAT MUḤADDITH ṢĀḤIB SAID TO ‘A`LĀ ḤAḌRAT:
“Did it upset you when I said to send it back once you finish
reading it, and is that why you sent it back?”
Ḥ A Ḍ R A T M U Ḥ A D D I T H S Ū R A T Ī Ṣ Ā Ḥ I B S A I D : “Is it
sufficient to study it just once?”
36
KANZ AL-‘ĪMAN FĪ TARJAMAH AL-QUR’ĀN
38
His third masterpiece is his collection of na`at (prophetic
praise), Ḥadā’iq e Bakhshish, which is incomparable in the field
of poetry.
The reality is that all the sciences that ‘A`lā Ḥaḍrat, ‘Imām
‘Aḥmad Riḍā’, the Baraylawī Muḥaddith, mercy be upon him,
had attained, only a few from them were kasbī (acquired
through self-effort); the majority of the sciences and subjects
were wahbī and `aṭā’ī (divinely gifted and granted).
39
Somewhere on the Qur’ān, elsewhere on the Ḥadīth,
somewhere on the ‘A’immah (leaders) of the religion, and
elsewhere on the noble ‘Awliyā’, they would constantly raise
objections.
40
The point being that on every front line, he himself faced off
against the people and groups of falsehood and corruption;
he alone fought in a multi-opponent combat.
41
THE DEMISE
ْ َ َ َّ َ ُ َ
ﺑِﺂﻧَِﻴٍﺔ ِّﻣْﻦ ِﻓﻀٍﺔ ّوأﻛَﻮاٍب5ِْ4َوﻳ ُﻄﺎف َ]ﻠْﻴ
Servants are circumambulating around them [in paradise]
with silver cups and pitchers.11
َ َّ َّ
َوِإﻧﺎ ِإﻟْﻴِﻪ َراِﺟُﻌْﻮَنUِTِ S ِإﻧﺎ
Verily, to Allāh we belong, and to Him we shall return.
11 Sūrah al-‘Insān: 15
42
The Timeline Of
Faḍīlah Graduation at
the Age of Thirteen Sha`bān, November,
13
Years, Ten Months, 1286 AH 1869 AD
43
The Commencement Sha`bān 14th, 1286 November,
13
of Issuing Fatwā AH 1869 AD
The Commencement
13 of Teaching and 1286 AH 1869 AD
Instruction
Granted Complete
21 Authority to Issue 1293 AH 1876 AD
Fatwā
Sharīfayn
44
Granted ‘Ijāzah in
Ḥadīth by Shaykh
23 1295 AH 1878 AD
‘Aḥmad bin Zayn bin
Daḥlān al-Makkī
Granted ‘Ijāzah in
Ḥadīth by the Muftī of
23 1295 AH 1878 AD
Makkah, Shaykh `Abd
al-Raḥmān al-Sirāj
Granted ‘Ijāzah in
Ḥadīth by the righteous
student of Shaykh
23 1295 AH 1878 AD
`Ābid al-Sindī, Shaykh
Ḥusayn bin Ṣāliḥ Jamal
al-Layl al-Makkī
The Mentioned
Shaykh’s Observation
23 of Divine Light Upon 1295 AH 1878 AD
45
The Fatwā Regarding
the Impermissibility of
26 Marrying the Present- 1298 AH 1881 AD
Movement
Mi`rājīyah
Ceremony (Kanpur)
46
Academic Research
Regarding the
44 Impermissibility of 1316 AH 1898 AD
Women Visiting
Graves
Refutation of Mirzā
45 1317 AH 1899 AD
Ghulām Qādiyānī
wa ‘Ālām al-‘Ashrār
Attendance of the
Seven-Day Protest Rajab, November,
46
Against Nadwah al- 1318 AH 1900 AD
`Ulamā’ in Patna
Coined as “Reviver of
46 the Current Century” 1318 AH 1900 AD
‘Islām Bareilly
Sharīfayn
47
The Joint Query of the
‘Imām of the Ka`bah,
Shaykh `Abd ‘Allāh
Mirdād, and His
Teacher, Shaykh
52 1324 AH 1906 AD
Ḥāmid bin
Muḥammad bin
‘Aḥmad al-Jadāwī and
‘Imām ‘Aḥmad Riḍā’s
Academic Answer
Certificates of ‘Ijāzah
and Khilāfah for the
Scholars of Makkah
52 1324 AH 1906 AD
Mukarramah and
Madīnah
Munawwarah
Arrival in Karachi
(Pakistan) and Meeting
52 1324 AH 1906 AD
with Mawlānā `Abd al-
Karīm Dars Sindhī
Poetry collection,
Ḥadā’iq Bakhshish,
53 1325 AH 1907 AD
Released in Two
Volumes
48
Ḥāfiẓ Kutub al-Ḥaram
al-Sayyid ‘Ismā`īl
Khalīl al-Makkī pays
53 1325 AH 1907 AD
great homage to an
Arabic Fatwā by ‘Imām
‘Aḥmad Riḍā’
Shaykh Hidāyah-Allāh
bin Muḥammad bin
Muḥammad Sa`īd al- Rabī` al-‘Awwal March,
58 14th, 1330 AH 1912 AD
Sindī Muhājir Madanī
Attests to the
Mujaddidīyah
49
Coined the Title of
“Khātam al-Fuqahā’
wa al-Muḥaddithīn”
(The Peak of Fiqh and
58 1330 AH 1912 AD
Ḥadīth Experts) by
Ḥāfiẓ Kutub al-Ḥaram
al-Sayyid ‘Ismā`īl
Khalīl al-Makkī
Academic Response to
Dr. Sir Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn’s Before
59 1913 AD
Published Question on 1331 AH
Geometry
Announces Program
for the Reformation
59 1331 AH 1913 AD
and Revolution of the
Islamic Nation
Academic Answer to
the Query of the Justice
59 of the High Court of 1331 AH 1913 AD
Bahawalpur,
Muḥammad Dīn
Critical Booklet
Authored Against
Those Who Entered
59 1331 AH 1913 AD
into an Agreement with
the British Regarding
the Kanpur Masjid
50
Dr. Sir Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn
(Vice Chancellor of
1332 AH – 1914 AD –
60 Aligarh Muslim 1335 AH 1916 AD
University)’s Arrival in
Pursuit of Knowledge
Denial of Appearing in
the British Court and
62 1334 AH 1916 AD
His Exemption from
Attending
Letter of Ordinance
Addressed to the
62 1334 AH 1916 AD
Islamic Chief Justice of
the Deccan Provinces
Formation of Jamā`at
Approx.
64 Riḍā’-e-Muṣṭafā 1336 AH
1917 AD
Bareilly
Academic Research on
65 the Prohibition of 1337 AH 1918 AD
Albert F. Porta
Academic Research
66 Against the Theories of 1338 AH 1919 AD
51
105 Pieces of Evidence
and Academic
66 1338 AH 1920 AD
Research Refuting the
Earth’s Motion
Eloquent Refutation of
66 1338 AH 1920 AD
Ancient Philosophers
Theory
Exposing the
Movement Boycotting
67 1339 AH 1921 AD
Foreign Aid (Taḥrīk
Tark Mawālāt)
Historical Address
Against the Accusation
67 1339 AH 1921 AD
of Assisting and
Supporting the British
Developed Based on ‘Imām ‘Aḥmad Riḍā’ Kai Māh Aur Sāl by Dr. Mas`ūd ‘Aḥmad (Karachi, Pakistan)
52
TRANSLITERATION KEY
اأء a ط ṭ
ب b ظ ẓ
تة t ع ` | `a | `i | `u
ث th غ gh
ج j ف f
ح ḥ ق q
خ kh ك k
د d ل l
ذ dh م m
ر r ن n
ز z و w
س s ه h
ش sh ي y
ص ṣ إ i
53
54