[Yunus]

Assalaam alaykom,

Can somebody give me a list of the revivers of Islam up untill now? Jazaakallahu gairan.

Wassalaam

[faqir]

Here is a list on wikipedia with some obviously controversial choices:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujaddid

[amar_labedi]

faqir, on 08 December 2009 - 02:19 AM, said:

Here is a list on wikipedia with some obviously controversial choices:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujaddid

Asalamalaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu


thanks for sharing....

[Talibah]

Assalamu Alikum,

Mujaddid Ulema by Shaykh Gibril Haddad:


In his short essay entitled Tuhfat al-Mujtahidin bi Asma' al-Mujaddidin ("The Gem of the Striving Scholars: the Names of the Renewers of the Religion") al-Suyût.î listed the Renewers as follows:


1st century: `Umar ibn `Abd al-`Aziz;
2nd century: Al-Shâfi`î;
3rd century: Ibn Surayj and al-Ash`arî;
4th century: Al-Bâqillânî, Sahl al-Su`lûkî, and Abû Hâmid al-Isfarâyînî;
5th century: Al-Ghazzâlî;
6th century: Al-Fakhr al-Râzî and al-Rafi`i;
7th century: Ibn Daqîq al-`Id (625-702);
8th century: Al-Bulqini and al-`Irâqî;
9th century: Al-Suyût.î.

It is possible to continue the list as follows, and Allâh knows best:


10th century: al-Ramlî.
11th century: Shaykh Ah.mad al-Faruqi of Sirhind (d. 1034);
12th century: Al-Qutb `Abd Allâh al-Haddad of Hadramawt, Yemen;
13th century: Shaykh Khalid al-Baghdâdî and his student Shaykh Muh.hammad Amin `Abidîn (Ibn `Abidîn), both of Damascus;
14th century: Shaykh Badr al-Dîn al-H.asani of Damascus and Shaykh Muh.ammad Zahid al-Kawthari of Turkey.

Al-`Az.îm Abâdî in `Awn al-Ma`bûd (4:182) followed up al-Suyût.î list with the following differences:


1st century: Ibn Shihâb al-Zuhrî, al-Qâsim ibn Muh.ammad, Sâlim ibn `Abd Allâh, al-H.asan al-Bas.rî, Muh.ammad ibn Sîrîn, and Muh.ammad al-Bâqir;
2nd century: Yah.yâ ibn Ma`în;
3rd century: Al-Nasâ'î;
4th century: Al-H.âkim, `Abd al-Ghanî al-Maqdisî;
11th century: Ibrâhîm ibn H.asan al-Kurdî al-Kawrânî al-Madanî;
12th century: S.âlih. ibn Muh.ammad ibn Nûh. al-Fulânî al-Madanî, al-Sayyid Murtad.â al-Zabîdî;
13th century: Sayyid Nadhîr Husayn, al-Qâd.î H.usayn ibn Muh.ammad al-Ans.ârî al-Khazrajî al-Sa`dî al-Yamânî, Nawâb S.iddîq H.asan Khân Bhûpâlî al-Qinnawjî.

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GF Haddad

[absalih]

Huseyn Hilmi Isik.Rah. wrote

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Religion reformers can be classified in three groups:

The first group is that of the profound Ahl as-Sunnat scholars. They have corrected heresies, wrong deeds and superstitions that have been introduced among Muslims by ignorant people and by the enemies of Islam. They have revealed the true knowledge transmitted by the Ahl as-Sunnat mujtahids as they had heard it from as-Sahabat al-kiram. They did not say anything from themselves. They are called "mujaddidin" (renewers).
The Prophet ('alaihi 's-salam) praised them and foretold that they would come and render service to Islam: "After me, a scholar will appear every hundred years. He will strengthen my religion." Mujaddidin were praised in this hadith: "The scholars of my umma are like the prophets among the Children of Israil." The absolute mujtahids such as al-Imam al-azam (the Greatest Leader) Abu Hanifa, al-Imam ash-Shafi'i and the like, who were madhhab leaders, al-Imam ar-Rabbani Ahmad al-Faruqi as-Sirhindi, the 'ulama' who were attached to the madhhabs in each century and Hadrat al-Mahdi, who will come in the future, are of these mujaddidin. Some hypocrites, who use the religion as a means for political purposes and worldly advantages, have been representing themselves as religious men and murshids. Every one of them has been writing that he himself is the very mujaddid predicted in the hadith. The ignorant believe one of them and call him a mujaddid. Whereas, Rasulullah (sall-Allahu 'alaihi wa salam) explained the characteristics of mujaddidin. He said that they all would be in the path of as-Sahabat al-kiram (radi-Allahu anhum). And those who are in this path are the Ahl as-Sunnat scholars. These mujaddidin, who were predicted in the Hadith, have been the great scholars of the Ahl as-Sunnat, the apples of Muslims' eyes. They did not say anything from their own mind or opinions, nor did they give ayats and hadiths meanings according to their own ideas and understanding. They have tried to spread and emphasize the meanings given by the scholars of tafsir and hadith. .

Religion reformers in the second group believe in and pay respect to the Qur'an and Hadith, but they refuse their meanings and the knowledge given in the books of Islamic scholars. They derive meanings from the Qur'an and Hadith according to their short sight. They differ from the knowledge of the Ahl as-Sunnat scholars on many points. They are called "ahl al-bidat" (heretics).

Our Prophet ('alaihi 's-salam) predicted also that they would appear. The Hadith ash-Sharif says, "My umma will part into seventy three groups. Seventy-two of them will go to Hell, and one will not go to Hell owing to its iman." [This hadith is reported in many valuable books. For example, it is written on the first page of the translation of Al-milal wan-nihal that it exists in the four books of Sunan and that it is explained more detailedly in at-Tirmidhi's book. It is also written in the Sahihain of al-Bukhari and Muslim. Furthermore, it is written on the 609th page of Sharh al-Mawaqif, which is one of the greatest kalam books taught in high grades of madrasas, and in the 67th letter in the second volume of Maktubat by al-Imam ar-Rabbani. The ahl al-bida and disbelievers deny this hadith.]

In the third group of religion reformers are the insidious disbelievers. These enemies of Islam, by disguising themselves as Muslims and uttering gentle words such as, "We renovate the religion, reproduce its main sources and restore it to its former position," try to demolish Islamic faith, to change and defile the true meanings of ayats and hadiths. They strive to demolish Islam form the inside. Because they pretend to be Muslims and say, "We renovate the religion and purify it from superstitions," ignorant people suppose such disbelievers to be real mujaddids. They believe in them. Thus such reformers are very successful. In order to deceive Muslims, they praise a few Ahl as-Sunnat scholars and write that they admire them, yet they dislike most of the teachings written in their books and call them superstitions.

http://www.hizmetboo...slam/ref-42.htm


Hadrat Shah Wali-Allah ad-Dahlawi.RA. wrote about 'Ahl as-Sunnat scholars' :

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"Rasulullah ('alaihi 's-salam) said, 'Great scholars will come in Iran.' Besides great hadith scholars such as al-Bukhari, Muslim, at-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, an-Nasai, Ibn Maja, ad-Darimi, ad-Dara-Qutni, Hakim, al-Baihaki and many others who were educated in Iran, there are the great fiqh scholars such as Abu 't-Tayyib [Qadi Tahir at-Tabari], Shaikh Abu Hamid [al-Isfaraini], Shaikh Abu Ishaq ash-Shirazi, and al-Juwaini ['Abdullah ibn Yusuf and his son], Imam al-Haramain 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abdullah al-Juwaini and Imam Muhammad al-Ghazali and many many others, who were also educated in Iran. Even Imam Abu Hanifa and his disciples in Mawara an-nahr and Khurasan are the scholars of Iran and are the subject of the good news in the Hadith.
A hadith declares, 'There will come a mujaddid in every hundred years.' As he declared, a mujaddid came in each century and strengthened the religion. In the first century of the Hegira, 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-Aziz removed the cruelty of the rulers and established the principles of justice. In the second century, al-Imam ash-Shafi'i explained the knowledge of iman and separated the knowledge of fiqh. In the third century, Abu 'l-Hasan al-Ashari formulated the Ahl-as-Sunnat knowledge and rebutted the people of bidat. In the fourth century, Hakim and al-Baihaki and the like established the fundamentals of the knowledge of the Hadith, and Abu Hamid and the like spread the knowledge of fiqh. In the fifth century, Imam al-Ghazali opened a new way and said fiqh, tasawwuf and kalam were not different from one another. In the sixth century, Imam Fakhr ad-din ar-Razi spread the knowledge of kalam; and Imam an-Nawawi spread the knowledge of fiqh. Thus, a mujaddid, coming in each century up to our time, strengthened the religion. We should not dismiss the matter by just saying that the above hadith and the like are the miracles predicting future happenings. We should also realize the importance and the value of the predicted happenings." [Shah Wali-Allah ad-Dahlawi, Izalat al-Khafa 'an khilafati'l-Khulafa'. v II. p. 377, Karachi, 1372.]

http://www.hizmetboo...slam/ref-44.htm

This post has been edited by absalih: 21 August 2010 - 02:02 AM