Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi (1833–1884) was an Indian Islamic scholar, and one of the earliest teachers of Islamic Madrassa in Deoband, famously called Darul Uloom Deoband in India. He was the first principal of Darul Uloom Deoband.[1]
Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi | |
|---|---|
| 1st Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband | |
| In office 1866–1883 | |
| Preceded by | "office established" |
| Succeeded by | Syed Ahmad Dehlavi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1833 Nanauta, British India |
| Died | 1884 (aged 50–51) Nanauta, British India |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri (nephew) |
| Occupation | Islamic scholar |
| Military service | |
| Years of service | 1857 |
| Battles/wars | Indian War of Independence |
| Personal | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi |
Name and lineage
editHis ism (given name) was Muhammad Yaqub. His nasab (patronymic) meets Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr.[2]
Early life and education
editMuhammad Yaqub was born in 1833,[3] coinciding 13 Safar 1249 AH in British India, in the town of Nanauta, part of the Saharanpur District of the modern province of Uttar Pradesh, India.[4] His father, Mamluk Ali, was one of the senior Muslim scholars of India at the time, and the head of Oriental Studies at Madrassa Gaziuddin Khan. Muhammad Yaqub studied most of the Islamic sciences under his father and Shah Abd al-Ghani Mujaddidi.[4] His other teachers include Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri.[citation needed]
Muhammad Yaqub was trained in tasawwuf under Haji Imdadullah and received khilafah (authorization) from him in the Chishti, Naqshbandi, Qadiri, and Suhrawardi orders.[5]
Career
editIn 1852, Muhammad Yaqub was appointed as a teacher in Government College Ajmer. At the recommendation of the College principal, he was offered the post of Deputy collector, which he rejected. He was transferred to Banaras, and later promoted to the post of Deputy Inspector, Saharanpur.[4]
In 1866, Muhammad Yaqub was appointed as the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband.[4] Concerning his appointment in the Deoband seminary, Muhammad Miyan Deobandi writes that, "Seeing the increase in students day to day, it became a concern to get good teachers and thus Maulana Muhammad Yaqub was called to be the principal who was then teaching either in Ajmer or somewhere else."[6]
Students of Muhammad Yaqub include most of the second-generation Islamic scholars[3] such as Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, Aziz-ur-Rahman Usmani, Sayyid Mumtaz Ali,[7] Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad, Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri and Ashraf Ali Thanwi.[4]
Yaqub authored Sawaneh Umri Hazrat Maulana Qasim Nanutawi, a biography of Qasim Nanautawi[8] which was translated into Arabic by Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri as Al-Imām Muhammad Qasim An-Nanawtawi Kama Ra’aituhu.[9]
Death and legacy
editMuhammad Yaqub Nanautavi died of cholera at age 51 in 1884 and was buried in his hometown, Nanauta.[4]
Family life
editMuhammad Yaqub was maternal uncle of the Hadith scholar Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri.[3]
References
edit- ^ Tayyab, Muhammad (1990). The Role of Shaikh-Ul-Hind Maulana Mahmud-Ul-Hasan in the Indian Freedom Movement (MPhil). Aligarh Muslim University. p. 20.
{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Professor Nur al-Hasan Sherkoti. "Hadhrat Mawlana Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi". In Deobandi, Nawaz (ed.). Sawaneh Ulama-e-Deoband (in Urdu) (January 2000 ed.). Deoband: Nawaz Publications. pp. 90–214.
- ^ a b c Asir Adrawi. Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta (in Urdu) (2 April 2016 ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen. p. 269.
- ^ a b c d e f Rizwi, Syed Mehboob. Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband [History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband]. Vol. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F Quraishi (1981 ed.). Deoband: Darul Uloom Deoband. pp. 126–131.
- ^ Aamir Bashir. Shari'at and Tariqat: A Study of the Deobandi Understanding and Practice of Tasawwuf (PDF). ilmresources.wordpress.com. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi. Ulama-e-Haq Ke Mujahidana Karname. Vol. 1. Deoband: Faisal Publications. p. 51.
- ^ Sarkar, Sumit; Sarkar, Tanika (2008). Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253352699. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- ^ Ahmad, Ishtiaque (2020). Ulama E Deoband Ki Swaneh Umriyon Ka Tanqeedi Tajziya Azadi Se Qabl (PhD thesis) (in Urdu). India: Department of Urdu, Maulana Azad National Urdu University. pp. 98–103. hdl:10603/338413.
- ^ Rahman, Obaidur (2021). مساهمة علماء ديوبند في اللغة العربية وآدابها ١٨٦٧م - ٢٠١٣م [Contribution of Olamae of Deoband to Arabic Language and Literature from 1867 to 2013] (PhD) (in Arabic). India: Department of Arabic, Banaras Hindu University. pp. 191–193. hdl:10603/536377.