Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri

Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri (died 1948) was an Indian Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the fifth Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband.

Mawlāna, Mufti Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri
5th Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband
In office 1355 AH – 1357 AH
Preceded by	Muhammad Shafi Usmani
Succeeded by	Kifayatullah Gangohi
Personal details
Died	1948 (23 Rajab 1367 AH)
Resting place	Pureni, Bhagalpur
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Deoband
Personal
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni Hanafi
Movement	Deobandi
Notable work(s)	Fatāwa Suhūliya

Name and lineage

His ism (given name) was Muhammad Sahool. His nasab (patronymic) is: Muhammad Sahool ibn Afzal Hussain ibn Amīr Hasan ibn Razī al-Din ibn Shah Kamāl ibn Muzammil ibn Afqahuddīn ibn Abd al-Salām ibn Faizullāh ibn Usmān ibn Muhammad Raj'i ibn Najībuddīn ibn Ziāuddīn ibn Ahmd Ikrām ibn Muhammad ibn Tayyib ibn Tāhir ibn Masood ibn Abu Saīd Abān ibn Uthman.[1]

Biography

Bhagalpuri hailed from Puraini, Bhagalpur.[2] He acquired his primary education at home and then studied with Ashraf Alam. He moved to Madrasa Jām'i al-Ulūm Kanpur where he studied with Ashraf Ali Thanwi and Muhammad Ishāq Burdwāni.[3] He then studied with Muhammad Farooq Chiryakoti at Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam.[3]

Bhagalpuri went to Hyderabad where he studied logic, philosophy, astronomy, literature and fiqh with Lutfullah Aligarhi and Abd al-Wahhāb Bihāri. From Hyderabad, he moved to Delhi and attended lectures of Nazīr Hussain, and then joined Darul Uloom Deoband where he studied ahadith with Mahmud Hasan Deobandi and graduated from there.[3][4]

Bhagalpuri was appointed as a teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband after his graduation. He taught at the seminary for some seven or eight years.[4] He then served Madrasa Azizia, Aliah University and Madrasa-e-Alia, Sylhet, Assam as a senior professor of hadith and Head Teacher.[3] In 1920, he was appointed as a principal at Madrasa Alia Shamsul Huda in Patna.[4]

Succeeding Muhammad Shafi Usmani, Bhagalpuri served as the fifth Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband from 1355 AH to 1357 AH and issued 15,185 fatawa during his tenure.[3] He died in 1948 (27 Rajab 1367 AH) and was buried in Pureni.[3]

Literary works

Dār al-Suhūl, North Nazimabad has published his Mahmūd al-Fatāwa, better known as Fatāwa Suhūliya. The old copy of fatawa was given to Muhibbullah, a teacher of Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia by Bhagalpuri's grandson Muhammad Saadullah Usmani. Muhibullah worked on this, and got the fatawa composed and published.[5]

Bibliography

• Rizwi, Syed Mehboob. "Maulana Mufti Muhammad Sahool". Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband [History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband]. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F Quraishi (1981 ed.). Deoband: Darul Uloom Deoband. pp. 190–191.

References

1. Rafīq Ahmad Balākoti (July–August 2016). "Hadhrat Mufti Muhammad Sahool Usmani - A Biographical Sketch". Darul Uloom (in Urdu). Darul Uloom Deoband. 100 (7–8). Retrieved 7 September 2020.
2. Rizwi, Syed Mehboob. Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband [History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband]. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F Quraishi (1980 ed.). p. 190.
3. Rizwi, Syed Mehboob. Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband [History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband]. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F Quraishi (1980 ed.). p. 191.
4. Asir Adrawi. Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta (in Urdu) (2nd, April 2016 ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen. p. 115.
5. Editorial (March 2017). "A Review of Mahmūd al-Fatāwa". Bayyināt (in Urdu). Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia: 59. Retrieved 7 September 2020.