Abdur Rab Jaunpuri

ʿAbd ar-Rabb Jaunpūrī (, ; 1875 – June 1935) was an Indian Muslim scholar, author and teacher. He was associated with Taiyuni reformist movement, founded by his grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri, and succeeded his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri as the leader of the movement in 1899.

Early life and education

Abdul Rab Jaunpuri was born in 1875 to a scholarly Indian Muslim family in Mullatola, Jaunpur, located in the North-Western Provinces of the British Raj. His father, Hafiz Mahmud Jaunpuri, traced his ancestry to the Arab tribe of Quraysh, with Jaunpuri being a 37th-generation direct descendant of Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun caliph. Jaunpuri's grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri was the founder of the Taiyuni reformist movement and propagated Islam in north India and Bengal. His great grandfather, Abu Ibrahim Shaykh Muhammad Imam Bakhsh ibn Shaykh Jarullah was a student of Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi. Many of his family members were also Islamic scholars, for example, his uncles Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri and Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri, and his cousin Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri.

Jaunpuri's father died when he was five years old, so he was brought up and educated by his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri. He memorised the Qur'an in his childhood, and studied the Arabic and Persian languages. He was said to have mastered the knowledge of ma'rifa.

Career

Jaunpuri worked alongside his uncle in establishing numerous religious institutions in Daulatkhan in the Bengali island of Bhola. He established a langar khana which provided meals to needy people in the area. Jaunpuri toured many different parts of Bengal, giving public lectures, where he gained a large following. Notable locations include Sandwip and Barisal. He also wrote books in Urdu such as ''Nafeul Khalaiq''. Many of the next generation of Islamic scholars were his ''murids'' such as Muhammad Ishaq and Abul Hasanat Muhammad Abdul Hayy.

Death

Jaunpuri died in June 1935 in his home neighbourhood of Mullatola in Jaunpur, then located under the United Provinces of British India.

Spiritual genealogy

His spiritual genealogy is as follows:
# Prophet Muhammad
# Abū Bakr
# Salmān al-Fārisī
# Al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr
# Jaʿfar bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī aṣ-Ṣādiq
# Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr al-Bisṭāmī
# Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Kharaqānī
# Abū ʿAlī Faḍl bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Fārmadī
# Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī
# ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Ghijdawānī
# Khwājah Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Riwgarī
# Khwājah Maḥmūd al-Anjīr al-Faghnawī
# ʿAzīzān ʿAlī ar-Rāmitānī
# Sayyid Shams ad-Dīn Amīr Kulāl
# Muḥammad Bābā as-Samāsī
# Sayyid Bahā ad-Dīn Naqshband
# Sayyid Mīr ʿAlā ad-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
# Yaʿqūb Charkhī
# Khwājah ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār
# Khwājah Muḥammad Zāhid Wakhshī
# Khwājah Darwesh Muḥammad
# Khwājah Muḥammad Amkingī
# Khwājah Raḍī ad-Dīn Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh
# Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī
# Sayyid Ādam bin Nūrī
# Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Akbarābādī
# Shāh ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm Dehlawī
# Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī
# Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dehlawī
# Sayyid Aḥmad Shahīd
# Karāmat ʿAlī bin Abī Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Imām Bakhsh bin Jār Allāh al-Jaunpūrī
# Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī
# ʿAbd ar-Rabb bin Maḥmud bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī

References

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Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
1875 births
1935 deaths
Indian revolutionaries
19th-century Indian Muslims
19th-century Indian educators
19th-century Muslim theologians
20th-century Indian Muslims
20th-century Indian educators
20th-century Muslim theologians
People from Jaunpur district
Hanafis