Syed Kalbe Hussain Naqvi (मौलाना सैय्यद कल्बे हुसैन नक़वी) (مولانا سيد كلب حسين نقوى), also known as ''"Kabban"'', was a

Twelver Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

Shia muslim Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...

cleric, scholar, preacher and a

mujtahid ''Ijtihad'' ( ; ar, اجتهاد ', ; lit. physical or mental ''effort'') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a l ...

from

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and divisio ...

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He was a prominent cleric, and was chief of the

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the ...

scholars of the

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during his time.

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He came from a family of scholars, known as ''"Khandan-e-Ijtehad"'' (

Ijtihadi family The Ijtihadi family (or ''Khandān-e-Ijtihād'') is sub-branch of the '' Naqvis of Darul Ijtihad Jais and Nasirabad''. The family uses last name "Naqvi" to denote that they are descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through the lineage of th ...

), originally form Nasirabad-

Jais Jais, also spelled Jayas, is a city with a municipal board in Amethi district (formerly in Raebareli district) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Geography Jais is located at . It has an average elevation of 101 metres (331 feet ...

Raibareli Raebareli is a city in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Raebareli district and a part of Lucknow Division. The city is situated on the banks of the Sai river, southeast of Lucknow. It possesses many arc ...

, of whose Syed Dildar Ali Nasirabadi also known as ''

Ghufran Ma'ab Sayyid Dildar 'Ali, also known as Ghufran-Ma'ab Naseerabadi, (1753 – 10 January 1820) was a Shia scholar of India, from the village of Nasirabad, Raibareli in Uttar Pradesh, India. His best-known work is "Imad-ul-Islâm", in Arabic, a refutatio ...

'' was a patriarch. Syed

Hasan Naqvi Hasan Naqvi (حسن نقوى) was a Shia cleric from Lucknow, India who preached Twelver Shi'a Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad". He was born in India in 1935. His father was Maulana Syed Muhammad Naqvi, ...

''Aqa Hasan'' was Kalbe Hussain's father. Hussain's sons include Syed

Kalbe Abid Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi (مولانا سيد كلب عابد نقوى) was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Shia Islam. His father was Syed Kalbe Hussain and grandfather was Syed Aqa Hasan. He was an elder brother of ''Dr. Kalbe Sadi ...

and Syed

Kalbe Sadiq Sadiq (22 June 1939 - 24 November 2020) was an Indian Islamic scholar. He was born in 1939 in Lucknow and died on 24 November 2020 after a prolonged terminal sickness. He was posthumously bestowed with the accredited national award of Padma ...

. His son Kalbe Sadiq is known for his efforts to spread modern education among Muslims. His grandson, Syed

Kalbe Jawad Kalbe Jawad is a Shia Muslim cleric from Lucknow, India. Family background He comes from a family of scholars known as ''"Khandan-e-Ijtehad"'', and traces his lineage from Dildar Ali Naseerabadi (also known as Ghufran Ma'ab), their ancestors ca ...

(son of Syed Kalbe Abid) is a cleric and a Friday prayer leader of the Asifi Masjid in

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* Duniya Ka Sarveshesth Hasti * Gharze Shahadat

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