Habibur Rahman Azami was an Indian Islamic scholar and a researcher of
Hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
. His works include the restoration of ''
Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq
''Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanʿani'' () is an early hadith collection compiled by the Yemeni hadith scholar ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani (744–827). As a collection of the '' musannaf'' genre, it contains over 18,000 traditions arranged in top ...
''.
Early life
A'zami was born in
Maunath Bhanjan ,
[Muhammad Asad, Islamic Culture, vol 69. p 60.] Mau district (
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...
), India. He completed his formal education in
Mau in 1922
Darul Uloom Mau and began teaching.
He is known for his scholarly work on
Hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
and
Fiqh
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.
Services
A'zami's works are divided in three categories comprising Editing of Hadith
manuscript
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s, his own original works, and those related to
Polemic
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. He helped to bring the
Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani back to attention within the Muslim world. His works include:
* Kitab al-Zuhd wa’l-Raqa’iq of ‘
Abd-Allah ibn Mubarak (d.181 A.H.)
* Sunan of
Sa’id ibn Mansur (d. 227 A.H.)
*
Musnad of Imam Humaydi (d. 219 A.H.)
*
Musannaf of ‘
Abd al-Razzaq (d. 211 A.H.)
*
Musannaf of
Ibn Abi Shaybah (d. 235 A.H.)
* al-Matalib al’Aliyah of
Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani (d.752 A.H.)
* Majma ‘Bihar-al-Anwar of Tahir Patni (d. 986 A.H.)
*
al-Targhib wat-Tarhib by Mundhiri (d. 656 A.H.)
* Raka’at al-Tarawih, A’lam Marfu’ah and Shari’ Haqiqi.
* A’yan al-Hujjaj in two volumes, provides crisp and insightful accounts of scholar-pilgrims.
* Dastakar Ahl-i Sharaf (published in 1406 A.H.) deals with the biographies of men of eminence distinction who were weavers by profession.
Legacy
Although various research scholars have made Habib al-Rahman the title of their thesis, one thesis of
M.Phil. standard has been written about him. Masood Ahmad Azmi wrote ‘‘''Hayat abul Ma'asir Allama Habib al-Rahman al-Azmi'' (حیات ابو المآثر علامہ حبیب الرحمن الاعظمی)’’ in two volumes. It has been published by Madrassa Mirqatul Uloom,
Mau. It is over and about 1500 pages and discusses various aspects of the life of Maulana Azmi.
Abdel-Halim Mahmoud gave him the title of "The Greatest Scholar of The Islamic World" ("اکبر علماء العالم الاسلامی").
6-7 July 2019: Institute of Objective Studies' two-day national conference on the life and contributions of Allama Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami in the Speaker Hall, Constitution Club of India, New Delhi.
See also
*
List of Deobandis
References
External links
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Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi: Life and works (Biography)
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Hanafis
Maturidis
Deobandis
Hadith scholars
Muslim scholars of Islamic jurisprudence
Indian Sunni Muslims
People from Mau
1901 births
1992 deaths
People from Azamgarh district
Members of the Majlis-e-Shura of Darul Uloom Deoband