Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri شاہ عبد القادر رائے پوری (born 1878 / 1295AH) was a spiritual reformer and well known guide of Islam.

Life

His father Hafiz Ahmed was born in Toha Moharram Khan of Photohar of Chakwa District in India. He lived with his aunt in Dhodiyal, Sargoda. She bequeathed him her lands. Her brothers were Mulana Muhammad Ahsan, Mulana Kaleemullah and Mulana Muhammad Yaseen. His father belonged to a religious Muslim RAJPUT family. He became a hafiz of the

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under the supervision of his uncle, Maulana Kaleemullah. He learned

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grammar from Maulana Muhammad Rafiq, who was a student of

Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Hidāyat Aḥmad Ayyūbī Anṣārī Gangohī (182611 August 1905) ( ur, ) was an Indian Deobandi Islamic scholar, a leading figure of the Deobandi jurist and scholar of hadith. His lineage reaches back to Abu Ayyub al-Ans ...

. Thereafter, he left home to pursue Islamic studies. He studied in Saharanpur, Panipat and Delhi. He translated the Quran into Urdu in his later years. In Delhi, he studied the books of Hadith in Madrasa Abdur Rabb under Maulana Abd al-A’li, who was a student of Hujjatul Islam Maulana

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. He learned Persian. He traveled to

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, where he studied

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...

in Madrasa Abdur Rabb from Maulana Abdul Ali as well as

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from

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. he spent 14 years with

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Works

* He was the teacher of

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* He traveled to Bareilly in

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and conducted classes on the Qur'an and hadith. * He taught his disciples the methods of the purification of the soul and Tasawuff. Many Muslim scholars studied under him. He authorized some students to teach and propagate Islam across India.

References

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