Re: Answer to Modernism
Ahmad Raza Khan made the great accusation in his Husam al-Haramayn and followed up in his Tamheed-e-Iman, that the four Illustrious scholars: Maulana Khalil Ahmad al-Sahranpuri, Maulana Rashid Ahmad al-Gangohi, Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi and Maulana Qasim Nanautwi all became unbelievers and apostates from the deen of Islam. He did not stop at that heinous point, but went on to declare quite blatantly that: "ANY PERSON WHO DOUBTS THE KUFR OF THESE PEOPLE WILL THEMSELVES BECOME KAFIRS!" (See the preface to his Tamheed-e-Iman, p. v, by the South African Barelvi who called himself the "Khadim-e-Raza: servant of Rida Khan", Mohammed Bana, dated 19/10/87).
THE ULAMA OF MAKKAH, MADINAH, AL-AZHAR AND SYRIA WHO TESTIFIED IN FAVOR OF THE ULAMA OF DEOBAND AND DISTANCED THEMSELVES FROM AHMAD RIDA KHAN AND HIS ALLEGATIONS, AS LISTED IN: AL-MUHANNAD ALA'L MUFANNAD
The following is a full list of all the Ulama who testified in favour of the Ulama of Deoband in repudiation of Ahmad Rida Khan, his followers and their allegations. The honorific tiles and descriptions given to the Ulama below are based on what has been listed at the beginning of each testificatory letter from Hijaz, al-Azhar and Syria
THE ULAMA OF MAKKAH AL-MUKARRAMA:
1) Muhammad Saeed Ba-baseel al-Shafi'i, Teacher & Imam and Khateeb in Masjid al-Haram.
2) Ahmad Rasheed al-Hanafi. His letter was dated as being written and signed on Friday 17th of Dhil Hajj 1328 AH.
3) Muhibud-Din al-Muhajir al-Makki al-Hanafi - Imam Junayd and Imam Shibli of his time for his extreme piety.
4) Al-Shaykh Muhammad Siddiq al-Afghani al-Makki - who was called the Imam of the Awliya and Arifin.
5) Hadrat Maulana al-Shaykh Muhammad Abid (ibn Husayn) - Mufti of the Maliki's.
6) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Ali ibn Husayn Maliki - Teacher in the Haram Sharif.
THE ULAMA OF MADINAH AL-MUNAWWARA
7) Sayyid Ahmad Barzanji al-Shafi'i - he wrote a lengthy certification which was written on the 2nd day of Rabiul-Awwal in the year 1329 AH. He was also the author of a specific refutation of Rida Khan, as has been mentioned above.
8) Shaykh Rasuhi Umar in the year 1322 AH. He was a teacher in Madrasa al-Shafa
9) Mullah Muhammad Khan in the year 1326 AH. He was a Hanafi scholar from Bukhara originally and he was a teacher in the Masjid al-Nabawi
10) Shaykh Fayd al-Karim Khalil ibn Ibrahim, teacher in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
11)Syed Ahmad al-Jazairi - Shaykh of the Maliki's and a teacher in the Masjid al-Nabawi.
12) Shaykh Umar ibn Hamdan al-Mahrasee - Servant of Knowledge in the Masjid al-Nabawi
13) Shaykh Muhammad Zaki al-Barzanji - Servant of Knowledge in the Masjid al-Nabawi
14) Shaykh Muhammad al-Aziz al-Wazeer al-Tunusi - teacher in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
15) Shaykh Muhammad al-Soosi al-Khiyari - teacher in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
16) Shaykh Ahmad ibn al-Ma'mun al-Balgeesh - in the year 1328 AH
*17) Shaykh Muhammad Tawfiq - teacher in Syria and Khateeb of Jami al-Saruji *
18) Shaykh Musa Kaadim ibn Muhammad - teacher at Bab us-Salam
19) Shaykh Ahmad ibn Muhammad Khayr al-Haaj al-Abbasi - teacher in the Noble Mosque
20) Shaykh ibn Nu'man Muhammad Mansur - dated 1326 AH
21) Shaykh Ma'sum Ahmad Sayyid - Servant of Knowledge in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
22) Shaykh Abdullah al-Qadir ibn Muhammad
23) Shaykh Yasin al-Farra al-Dimashqi - dated 1326 AH
24) Mullah Abdar Rahman - Teacher in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
25) Shaykh Mahmud Abd al-Jawwad - Servant of Knowledge in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
26) Shaykh Ahmad Bisaati - Servant in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
27) Shaykh Muhammad Hasan Sindi - Servant of Knowledge in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
28) Shaykh Ahmad ibn Ahmad Asad - Servant of Knowledge in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
29) Shaykh Abdullah al-Nablusi al-Hanbali - dated 1328 AH - teacher in Haramain Sharifain
30) Shaykh Muhammad ibn Umar al-Fulaani - teacher in the Haram al-Sharif al-Nabawi
31) Shaykh Ahmad ibn Muhammad Khayr al-Shanqiti al-Maliki al-Madani - dated 1328 AH
THE ULAMA OF AL-JAMI AL-AZHAR, CAIRO, EGYPT
32) Hadrat al-Shaykh Saleem al-Bashari - Shaykh al-Ulama in al-Azhar
33) Shaykh Muhammad Ibrahim al-Qayaani
34) Shaykh Sulayman al-Abd
THE ULAMA OF SYRIA
35) Hadrat Maulana al-Sayyid Muhammad Abul Khayr well known as Ibn Abidin ibn al-Allamah Ahmad ibn Abdal Ghani ibn Umar Abidin al-Husayni al-Naqshabandi al-Dimashqi al-Hanafi - who was a direct descendant of the great Hanafi Faqih and Muhaddith known as Ibn Abidin, author of al-Fatawa al-Shaamiyya
36) Mustafa ibn Ahmad al-Shatti al-Hanbali - who was described as the Muhaqqiq (research scholar) of his time.
37) Mahmud Rasheed al-Attar - who was a well known student of the greatest Muhaddith in his age, and he was Shaykh Badrud-Din al-Hasani al-Hanafi (his biography is on the ASFA forum and in The Reliance of the Traveller, x98, edited by Nuh Keller)
38) Hadrat al-Shaykh Muhammad al-Bushi al-Hamawi
39) Hadrat al-Shaykh Muhammad Saeed al-Hamawi
40) Hadrat al-Shaykh Ali ibn Muhammad al-Dalail al-Hamawi
41) Al-Fadil al-Imam al-Rabbani Hadrat al-Shaykh Muhammad Adeeb al-Hauraani
42) Hadrat al-Shaykh Abdal Qadir
43) Hadrat al-Shaykh Muhammad Saeed - dated **
**17th of Rabiul-Awwal 1329 AH
44) Hadrat al-Shaykh Muhammad Saeed Lutfi al-Hanafi
45) Shaykh Faaris ibn Muhammad al-Hamawi
46) Hadrat al-Shaykh Mustafa al-Haddad
ULAMA OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT WHO TESTIFIED TO THE 26 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN AL-MUHANNAD ALA'L MUFANNAD IN ORDER TO DECLARE RIDA KHAN'S CLAIMS TO BE BASELESS
The Ulama of the Indian subcontinent also testified alongside the Ulama from Hijaz, al-Azhar and Shaam that the Deobandi's were pious Sunni Muslims free from the allegations of Kufr thrown at them by Rida Khan and his followers. The list includes the following names:
1) Shaykh al-Hind Maulana Mahmud Hasan
2) Hadrat Maulana Mir Ahmad Hasan
3) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Azizur Rahman, Mufti al-A'zam of Darul Ulum Deoband
4) Hakeem al-Ummah Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi
5) Hadrat Maulana Shah Abdur Rahim Raipuri
6) Hadrat Maulana Hakeem Muhammad Hasan
7) Hadrat Maulana Qudratullah Muradabadi
8) Hadrat Maulana Habibur Rahman
9) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Ahmad al-Qasimi
10) Hadrat Maulana Ghulam Rasul
11) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Sahul
12) Hadrat Maulana Abdus Samad
13) Hadrat Maulana Hakeem Muhammad Ishaq
14) Hadrat Maulana Riyadud-Din
15) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Kifayatullah
16) Hadrat Maulana Diyaul-Haqq
17) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Qasim
18) Hadrat Maulana Ashiq Ilahi Meeruthi
19) Hadrat Maulana Siraj Ahmad
20) Maulana Qari Muhammad Ishaq
21) Maulana Hakeem Muhammad Mustafa Bijnawari
22) Hadrat Maulana Hakeem Muhammad Mas'ud Ahmad Gangohi
23) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Yahya Sahranpuri
24) Hadrat Maulana Kifayatullah Sahranpuri
CERTIFICATION OF LATER ULAMA
1) Hadrat Maulana Qari Muhammad Tayyib - one time Rector of Darul Ulum Deoband
2)Hadrat Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi (teacher of Shaykh Abdal Fattah Abu Ghuddah)
3) Hadrat Maulana Zafar Ahmad Uthmani (also a teacher of Shaykh Abdal Fattah Abu Ghuddah)
4) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Yusuf al-Banuri (another teacher of Shaykh Abdal Fattah)
5) Hadrat Maulana Khayr Muhammad Jalandhari
6) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Jamil Ahmad Thanawi
7) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Mahmud of Multan, Pakistan
8) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Abdullah of Multan
9) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Abdus Sattar of Multan
10) Hadrat Maulana Abdal Haqq
11) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Thanawi
12) Hadrat Maulana Abdal Haqq Naafi
13) Hadrat Maulana Abdullah Bahlawi
14) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Anwar of Faysalabad, Pakistan
15) Hadrat Maulana Shamsul Haqq Afghani
16) Hadrat Maulana Sayyid Hamid Siyal
17) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Rasheed Ahmad of Karachi, Pakistan
18) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Muhammad Fareed
19) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Ahmad Saeed
20) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Muhammad Wajeed
21) Hadrat Maulana Ali Muhammad
22) Hadrat Maulana Mufti Abdal Qadir
23) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Sharif Kashmiri
24) Hadrat Maulana Sayyid Sadiq Husayn
25) Hadrat Maulana Abdal Hayy
26) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Abdullah
27) Hadrat Maulana Abdas Sattar Tunusi
28) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Sharif Jalandhari
29) Hadrat Maulana Nazir Ahmad
30) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Idris31) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Ali Jalandhari
32) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Ayyub Banuri
33) Hadrat Maulana Fadl Ghani
34) Hadrat Maulana Fayd Ahmad
35) Hadrat Maulana Muhammad Sarfraz Khan
36) Hadrat Maulana Qadi Abdal Lateef
ULAMA OF MAKKAH AND MADINAH WHO TESTIFIED AND SIGNED AGAINST RAZA KHAN'S: HUSAM AL-HARAMAYN SPECIFICALLY
Maulana Sayyid Husayn Ahmad al-Madani who was a contemporary of Raza Khanand a resident of the Holy City of Madinah al-Munawwara was one of the Deobandi Ulama who was present in the Hijaz when Rida Khan came to have his book Husam al-Haramayn signed by the Ulama of Makkah and Madinah. After the reality of Rida Khan's deceitful tactics were exposed by the Ulama of Deoband in works like al-Muhannad ala'l Mufannad and many other works, the following Ulama of Hijaz signed against Rida Khan's Husam as mentioned in Shaykh al-Madani's biography: Cherag-e-Muhammad (p. 96):
The Ulama of Makkah al-Mukarrama:
1) Shaykh Abdullah Makki al-Shafi'i
2) Shaykh Shu'ayb al-Maliki
3) Shaykh Ahmad al-Makki
4) Shaykh Abdul Jalil Effendi al-Hanafi
5) Shaykh Ahmad Rashid al-Hanafi
6) Shaykh Muhibuddin al-Hanafi
7) Shaykh Muhammad Siddiq Afghani al-Makki
The Ulama of Madinah al-Munawwara
1) Shaykh Yasin Misri al-Shafi'i
2) Shaykh Abdullah al-Nablusi
3) Shaykh Abdul Hakim Bukhari al-Hanafi
4) Shaykh Mullah Shankar Bukhari
5) Shaykh al-Sayyid Muhammad Amin Ridwan Shafi'i
6) Shaykh Effendi Ma'mun al-Bori
7) Shaykh Fatih Tahiri al-Maliki **the Chief Mufti of the Shafi'i's in Madinah al-Munawwara also wrote a book against Ahmad Rida Khan once the reality of his treachery against the Ulama of Deoband, Makkah and Madinah came to light. The full details behind this are mentioned in the book: Cherag-e-Muhammad by Shaykh Zahid al-Husayni. Details are found in an another article. The Mufti in question was Sayyid Ahmad al-Barzanji, who was one of the Ulama who initially signed in favor of Rida Khan's Husam al-Haramayn. Let us repeat the details behind Sayyid Barzanji's book and the Ulama who testified against Rida Khan.**
***Ghayatul Ma'mul fi Ilm Ghayb al-Rasul of Sayyid Barzanji was written in refutation of Ahmad Rida Khan's views on Ilm al-Ghayb (Knowledge of the Unseen) possessed by the Holy Prophet - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Here are some quotes from this book.*
On page 28, Shaykh Barzanji said that Raza Khan was: "One who stuck to his deviant beliefs because of his stubbornness and animosity..."
Also on the same page: "(He) acknowledges himself to be a scholar, whereas the thing he claims for himself (ilm) was never given to him...."
"His ta'weel and tahreef (interpretation and wilful changing of the truth) is an example of extreme treachery and obvious ignorance.."
"He (Rida Khan) is an ignoramus..."
**
*These statements were conferred also by the following Ulama:*
i) Shaykh Abdal Qadir Tawfiq al-Shalabi al-Tarablusi al-Hanafi, who later resided in Madinah al-Munawwara. He added on page 33 that Rida Khan was a "quarrel monger" and his (Rida Khan): "Beliefs are a pile of lies, false allegations and completely against religious teachings..."
ii) Shaykh Fatih al-Tahiri, Muhaddith and Faqih of the Maliki's declared Rida Khan to be: "One who strives to create dissension...." and : "Is one of those people who follow their low bestial desires and whatever Shaytan pours **
**in their heart...."
The following Ulama also conferred and agreed upon the rebuttal of Shaykh Barzanji against Rida Khan:
i) Mufti Tajuddin Ilyas al-Hanafi
ii) Shaykh Muhammad Sa'eed al-Dalail
iii) Sayyid Abbas Ridwan
iv) Shaykh Umar al-Hamdan
v) Shaykh Khalil al-Kharbuti