Muhammad Junagarhi

Islamic scholar

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Junagarhi
Personal
Born	1891 (1891) Junagadh State
Died	1941(1941-00-00) (aged 50–51) Junagadh
Religion	Islam

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

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

References

^ Iraqi 2007, p. 67.
^ Junagarhi 2006, p. 10.
^ 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.
^ The Pakistan National Bibliography. Government of Pakistan, Directorate of Archives & Libraries, National Bibliographical Unit. 1985. p. 20.
^ ^a ^b Mohammadi 2019, p. 548.
^ ^a ^b Wahajuddin Hashmi (15 April 2021). "مولانا محمد جوناگڑھی :بلند پایہ خطیب، مستند مفسر". Dawat News. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
^ 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.
^ Junagarhi 2006, p. 14.
^ "Books by Muhammad Junagarhi". WorldCat. Retrieved 13 July 2021.

Sources

Iraqi, Abdul Rasheed (2019). 40 Ahl-e Hadith Scholars from the Indian Subcontinent. Independently Published. pp. 156–166. ISBN 9781081008956.
Iraqi, Abdul Rasheed (2004). Tazkara Tu Al Nubala Fi Trajim Al-ulama [تذکرۃ النبلاء فی تراجم العلماء] (in Urdu). Lahore: Maktaba-e-Baitul Hikmat, Lahore. pp. 351–353.
Junagarhi, Muhammad (2006). Saif e Mohammadi [سیف محمدی] (in Urdu). Lahore: Publisher of Qur'an and Hadith, Pakistan. pp. 10–14.
Mohammadi, Mohammad Ameen (2019). Tehreek e Pakistan Me Ulmae Ahle Hadith Ka Kirdar [تحریک پاکستان میں علماء اہل حدیث کا کردار] (in Urdu). Lahore: Dar al-Muslimeen, Urdu Bazar. p. 548.
Iraqi, Abdul Rasheed (2007). Barre-Sagheer-Pak-w-Hind-Me-Ilam-e-Hadith [برصغیر پاک و ہند میں علم حدیث] (in Urdu). Lahore: Mohaddis Ropari Academy, Dalgaran Chowk. pp. 67–68.