Syed Ahmad Hashmi (17 January 1932 - 4 November 2001) was an Indian Muslim scholar and politician who served as the seventh general secretary of

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind or Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind () is one of the leading organizations of Islamic scholars belonging to the Deobandi school of thought in India. It was founded in November 1919 by a group of Muslim scholars including Abdul Bari Fi ...

and the chairman of Passenger Amenities Committee. He was a member of the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

, upper house of the

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representing

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for two terms.

Biography

Syed Ahmad Hashmi was born on 17 January 1932 in

Darbhanga Darbhanga is the fifth-largest city and municipal corporation in the Indian state of Bihar situated centrally in Mithila region. Darbhanga is the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. It was the seat of the erstw ...

at the house of his maternal grandfather. He was brought up by his brother Syed Muhammad Hashmi, who enrolled him at the Madrasa Dīniya in Ghazipur, where he received his primary education, where he received his primary education from 1940 to 1948. He received his higher education at the Madrasa 'Aliya in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

between 1948 and 1954, and graduated from the

Darul Uloom Deoband The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary (darul uloom) in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim ...

in 1955. He studied ''

Sahih Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...

'' and ''

Jami' al-Tirmidhi Jami at-Tirmidhi ( ar, جامع الترمذي), also known as Sunan at-Tirmidhi, is one of " the six books" (''Kutub al-Sittah'' - the six major hadith collections). It was collected by Al-Tirmidhi. He began compiling it after the year 250 A.H. ...

'' with Hussain Ahmad Madani. Hashmi stayed at Kolkata between 1957 and 1974, and taught there in the

madrasa Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary instruction or higher learning. The word is variously transliterated '' ...

of Anjuman Nidā-e-Islām, and served as the general secretary of the

's West Bengal unit. He started two weeklies, ''Armaghān'' and ''Kundan'' there, and the

Government of West Bengal The Government of West Bengal also known as the West Bengal Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of West Bengal , created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority. The ...

filed a lawsuit against the weekly ''Armaghan'' and it was stopped. He was a member of

, the upper house of the Indian parliament, from 1974 to 1980 and 1980 to 1986. He was appointed the chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board in 1977 and served as the general secretary of the

from 1973 to 1980. The JUH also made him the manager of its weekly ''Al-Jamiat''. He was a founder member of the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and served it under the capacity of a vice-president. He was a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and Babri Masjid Action Committee. He was a member and then the chairman of the Passenger Amenities Committee. Later in his life, he dissociated from the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, and formed Milli Jamiat Ulama, existence of which remained limited to the paper only. Hashmi died on 4 November 2001 in Delhi. His funeral prayer was led by Abdul Ghafar, the then senior hadith professor of Madrasa Alia, Fatehpuri.

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Syed Ahmad Hashmi's debates at the Rajya Sabha
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