| Full name | Muhammad Zakarīyyā ibn Muhammad Yahyá ibn Muhammad Ismail al-Kandhlawi |
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| Era | 20th Century |
| Region | Deobandi Scholar |
| School | Deobandi |
| Notable ideas | Basic principles and practices of Islam and global brotherhood |
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Qasim Nanotvi · Rashid Gangohi |
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| Notable Institutions | |
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Darul Uloom Deoband, India |
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| Movements | |
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Tablighi Jamaat |
Muhammad Zakarīyyā ibn Muhammad Yahyá ibn Muhammad Ismail al-Kandhlawi (February 3, 1898 – May 24, 1982) was a prominent Sunni Muslim scholar of the South Asia. He was a nephew of Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi, the reviver of the Tablighi Jamaat.
Zakarīyyā followed the Dar ul-Ulum Deoband school of thought. He is remembered for his contribution to the studies of hadith and as the author of the eighteen-volume Awjāzul Masālik ilá Mu'attā Imām Mālik. He was also the author of Fadha'il-e 'Amal, which is part of a series of books used by the Tablighi Jamaat for Da'wah.. He was also a Chishti Sufi master.
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Muhammad Zakariyya was born in the town of Kandhla in the district of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, India on 11 Ramadan, 1315 AH to a family claiming the lineage of Abu Bakr. Around 1318 AH, he moved to Gangoh, where his father lived.
At the age of seven or eight, Muhammad Zakariyya began his primary education under Dr. Abdur Rahman Muzaffarnagari and his wife, including Qur'anic memorisation and Persian and Urdu.
In Rajab, 1328 AH, Muhammad Zakariyya moved to Saharanpur, where his father had settled. In Saharanpur, he continued to study Arabic, including morphology, grammar, literature, and logic and began the study of fiqh and hadith literature.
After completing his academic studies, on the 1st of Muharram, 1335 AH, Muhammad Zakariyya was appointed as a teacher of the primary level in Mazahir al-Ulum.
In Shawwaal of 1344 AH, Hadhrat accompanied his Shaikh for Hajj. In Medina, he taught Sunan Abu Da'ud at Madrasatul Uloom Shari'ah for a year. While in Madina, he commenced the writing of Awjaz ul Masalik ila Mu'atta Imam Malik. He was twenty-nine at the time.
After spending a year in the Hejaz, Muhammad Zakariyya returned on the 18th of Safar, 1346 AH. He continued to teach until 1388 AH, when he developed cataracts.
Muhammad Zakariyya married twice. He first married the daughter of Shaikh Ra'uf ul Hasan in Kandhla. She bore him eight children: three sons and five daughters. She died on the 5th of Dhu l-Hijja, 1355 AH. He then married his first cousin, the daughter of Muhammad Ilyas, in 1356 AH. She bore him three children: one son and two daughters.
Hadhrat authored works both in Arabic and Urdu. A number of them treat specialized subjects intended for scholars and the rest have been written for the general public. His first written work was a three-volume commentary of Alfiyya Ibn Malik, which he wrote as a student when he was only thirteen. His work, Fadha'il-e-Qur'an has been translated into eleven languages, Fadha'il-e-Ramadan into twelve languages, and Fadha'il-e-Salaah into fifteen languages. He wrote four books on tafsir and tajwid, forty-four books about hadith, six books on fiqh and its related sciences, twenty-four historical and biographical books, four books on aqidah, twelve books on zuhd (abstinence) and riqaq, three books on Arabic grammar and logic, and six books on modern-day groups and movements.