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Jamiat Ahle Hadith (JA) (Assembly of followers of the Sayings of the prophet) is a religio-political party in Pakistan promoting the Ahle Hadees religious movement. It is part of the Islamic fundamentalist Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, that won at the last legislative elections, 20 October 2002 with 11.3 percent of the popular vote. Of the 272 seats in the legislature, the party has 53 elected members serving. It follows the salafis. The party is currently led by Professor Sajid Mir.[1]
In Pakistan, the movement formed a political party, Jamiat Ahle Hadith, which unlike similar Islamic groups opposed government involvement in affairs of sharia law.[2] Their leader, Ehsan Elahi Zaheer, was assassinated in 1987.
Some of the organizations of the Ahl-e-Hadith are the All India Ahl-e-Hadith Conference, founded sometime on or before 1916, of which smaller organizations in India are members. One member is the Anjuman-i-Hadith formed by students of Maulana Sayyid Miyan Nadhir Husain and divided into Bengali and Assam wings. Another organization, the Nikhil Banga O Assam Jami'at-e-Hadith was formed at Calcutta in 1946 under the leadership of Maulana Abdullahil Kafi (1900–1960). After the 1947 separation of India and Pakistan, the Pakistani Ahle-Hadith center was based in and around Karachi. The next year the Pakistan Markazi Jami'at-e-Hadith was founded at Lahore. The Nikhil Banga O Assam Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadith, Pabna was given a new name – the 'Purba Pakistan Jami'at-e-Ahl-e-Hadith' in 1953. Lately, the name of the organisation was again changed to Bangladesh Jami'at-e-Ahl-e-Hadith. In India after 1947, the headquarters of the organisation was shifted from Calcutta to Patna and later (1956) to Dhaka. A Anjuman-e-Ahl-e-Hadith was formed in West Bengal in 1951.[3]
The number of Ahle Hadith madrassa in Pakistan has grown from 134 in 1988 to 310 in 2000. The group has 17 organisations active in Pakistan, "looking after their own seminaries," three of them involved in jihad.
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