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Abdur Rab Jaunpuri

ʿAbd ar-Rabb Jaunpūrī (Urdu: عبد الرب جونپوری, Bengali: আব্দুর রব জৌনপুরী; 1875 – June 1935) was an Indian Muslim scholar, author and teacher.[1] He was associated with Taiyuni reformist movement, founded by his grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri, and succeeded his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri as the leader of the movement in 1899.[2]

Mawlana
Abdur Rab Jaunpuri
Personal
Born1875 (1875)
Mullatola, Jaunpur, North-Western Provinces
DiedJune 1935(1935-06-00) (aged 59–60)
Mollatala, Jaunpur, United Provinces
ReligionIslam
Parent
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
MovementTaiyuni
OccupationTheologian, author
RelativesKaramat Ali Jaunpuri (grandfather)
Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (uncle)
Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (uncle)
Abdul Batin Jaunpuri (cousin)
Rashid Ahmad Jaunpuri (cousin)
Muslim leader
TeacherHafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri
PredecessorHafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri
Disciples
Influenced by

Early life and education

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Abdul Rab Jaunpuri was born in 1875 to a scholarly Indian Muslim family in Mullatola, Jaunpur, located in the North-Western Provinces of the British Raj. His father, Hafiz Mahmud Jaunpuri, traced his ancestry to the Arab tribe of Quraysh, with Jaunpuri being a 37th-generation direct descendant of Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun caliph. Jaunpuri's grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri was the founder of the Taiyuni reformist movement and propagated Islam in north India and Bengal.[3] His great grandfather, Abu Ibrahim Shaykh Muhammad Imam Bakhsh ibn Shaykh Jarullah was a student of Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi. Many of his family members were also Islamic scholars, for example, his uncles Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri and Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri, and his cousin Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri.[2]

Jaunpuri's father died when he was five years old, so he was brought up and educated by his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri. He memorised the Qur'an in his childhood, and studied the Arabic and Persian languages. He was said to have mastered the knowledge of ma'rifa.[4]

Career

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Jaunpuri worked alongside his uncle in establishing numerous religious institutions in Daulatkhan in the Bengali island of Bhola. He established a langar khana which provided meals to needy people in the area. Jaunpuri toured many different parts of Bengal, giving public lectures, where he gained a large following.[5] Notable locations include Sandwip and Barisal.[6][7] He also wrote books in Urdu such as Nafeul Khalaiq.[8] Many of the next generation of Islamic scholars were his murids such as Muhammad Ishaq and Abul Hasanat Muhammad Abdul Hayy.[9][10]

Death

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Jaunpuri died in June 1935 in his home neighbourhood of Mullatola in Jaunpur, then located under the United Provinces of British India.[11]

Spiritual genealogy

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His spiritual genealogy is as follows:[9]

  1. Prophet Muhammad
  2. Abū Bakr
  3. Salmān al-Fārisī
  4. Al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr
  5. Jaʿfar bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī aṣ-Ṣādiq
  6. Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr al-Bisṭāmī
  7. Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Kharaqānī
  8. Abū ʿAlī Faḍl bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Fārmadī
  9. Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī
  10. ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Ghijdawānī
  11. Khwājah Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Riwgarī
  12. Khwājah Maḥmūd al-Anjīr al-Faghnawī
  13. ʿAzīzān ʿAlī ar-Rāmitānī
  14. Sayyid Shams ad-Dīn Amīr Kulāl
  15. Muḥammad Bābā as-Samāsī
  16. Sayyid Bahā ad-Dīn Naqshband
  17. Sayyid Mīr ʿAlā ad-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
  18. Yaʿqūb Charkhī
  19. Khwājah ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār
  20. Khwājah Muḥammad Zāhid Wakhshī
  21. Khwājah Darwesh Muḥammad
  22. Khwājah Muḥammad Amkingī
  23. Khwājah Raḍī ad-Dīn Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh
  24. Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī
  25. Sayyid Ādam bin Nūrī
  26. Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Akbarābādī
  27. Shāh ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm Dehlawī
  28. Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī
  29. Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dehlawī
  30. Sayyid Aḥmad Shahīd
  31. Karāmat ʿAlī bin Abī Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Imām Bakhsh bin Jār Allāh al-Jaunpūrī
  32. Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī
  33. ʿAbd ar-Rabb bin Maḥmud bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī

References

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  1. ^ Mullah, Muhammad Ghulam Mustafa (1990). হযরত খাজা শরফ উদ্দিন চিশতী (রঃ) এবং মায়ার প্রশাসন ও প্রাসঙ্গিক কিছু কথা (in Bengali). Mubeshah Prakashani. p. 84.
  2. ^ a b Afaz Uddin, Muhammad (2012). "Jaunpuri, Abdur Rab". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  3. ^ Ismail, Muhammad (2010). Hagiology of Sufi Saints and the Spread of Islam in South Asia. Jnanada Prakashan. p. 172. ISBN 9788171393756.
  4. ^ Patwari, Muhammad Solaiman (1961). হজরত মাওলানা হাফেজ এনায়েত উল্যাহ খান (in Bengali). pp. 40–41.
  5. ^ Khan, Abu Yahya Imam. تراجم علماء حدیث ہند (in Urdu).
  6. ^ Taluqdar, Shibbir Ahmed (2020). "14. সন্দ্বীপ টাউনে সভা সমাবেশ". আমার দেখা সন্দ্বীপ (in Bengali). Soja Kotha.
  7. ^ Rahman, K. A. (1980). বরিশাল দর্পন (in Bengali). p. 19.
  8. ^ Mujibur Rahman, Muhammad (1986) [1938]. বাংলা ভাষায় কুরআন চর্চা (in Bengali). Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. p. 448.
  9. ^ a b Ahmed, Momtazuddin (1963). পরিবাগের শাহ ছাহেব রাহেমাহুল্লার জীবনী (in Bengali). p. 10.
  10. ^ Tasnim, Alim, মাওলানা আবুল হাসানাত মােহাম্মদ আবদুল হাই (১৯০১-১৯৮৩) (in Bengali)
  11. ^ Abdullah, Muhammad. মওলানা আবদুল আউওয়াল জৌনপুরী [Molana Abdul Auoal Jaunpuri] (in Bengali). Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. pp. 12–16.
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