Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi (مولانا سيد كلب عابد نقوى) was a
mujtahid
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from
Lucknow
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,
India
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who preached
Shia
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Islam
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. His father was
Syed Kalbe Hussain and grandfather was Syed
Hasan Naqvi Aqa Hasan. He was an elder brother of ''
Dr. Kalbe Sadiq'', a
Padma Bhushan
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-awarded scholar. His son, Syed
Kalbe Jawad
Kalbe Jawad is a Shia Islam, Shia Muslim cleric from Lucknow, India.
Family background
He comes from a family of scholars known as ''"Ijtihadi family, Khandan-e-Ijtehad"'', and traces his lineage from Dildar Ali Naseerabadi (also known as Ghu ...
is also a
scholar
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and the chief of the
Shia
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population in
Lucknow
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,
India
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. He died in 1986 after being involved in a car crash while on his way to read a
majlis
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. His
funeral
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prayer was also performed at
Teele Wali Masjid in the Imamat of Former Shahi Imam of Teele Wali Masjid Maulana
Syed Shah Fazlur Rahman Waizi. His final 10 set of Majlises which he read in Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab in 1986 has been entitled "Majlis-e-Azeem".
References
Year of birth missing
1986 deaths
Scholars from Lucknow
Ijtihadi family
Indian Shia clerics
Road incident deaths in India
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