Which of the following is known for his piety and memorized the Qur'an by the age of 7: Ahmad Nahavandi or Shah Waliullah Dehlawi?
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Ahmad Nahavandi Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Nahawandi was a Persian astronomer of the 8th and 9th centuries. His name indicates that he was from Nahavand, a city in Iran.
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Shah Waliullah Dehlawi Shah Waliullah was born on 21 February 1703 to Shah Abdur Rahim, during the reign of Emperor Aurengzeb. He was known as Shah walliullah because of his piety. A prominent Sufi and scholar of Delhi. He memorized the Qur'an by the age of seven. Soon thereafter, he mastered Arabic and Persian letters. He was married at fourteen. By sixteen he had completed the standard curriculum of Hanafi law, theology, geometry, arithmetic and logic. He lived during the time when Fatawa-e-Alamgiri was being compiled and he was asked to join the team of scholars that was working on it, however, credible sources reveal that he joined the team but for a very brief period of time and then he dissociated himself from the task. His father, Shah Abdur Rahim was the founder of the Madrasah-i Rahimiyah. Shah Abdur Rahim was on the committee appointed by Aurangzeb for compilation of the code of law, Fatwa-e-Alamgiri. His grandfather, Sheikh Wajihuddin, was an important officer in the army of Shah Jahan.
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Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani was an Afghan Islamic scholar. He was born 17 April 1923 (the twenty-first day of Ramadan of that year) in Herat, Afghanistan to a family of "miagan" (religious scholars descended from a great Islamic saint). The honorific "Faizani", a derivation of an Arabic word which denotes something that overflows with God's light (blessings), was bestowed upon him by the imam of the Kaaba during his Hajj.
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Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi (died 1623-24 or 1626-7) was an Iranian theologian and founder or proponent of the conservative (Akhbari) strand in Twelver Shi'a Islamic belief, that is, those who favor hadith over fatwās.
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Al-Dhahabi Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn `Uthman ibn Qayyim `Abu `Abd Allah Shams ad-Din al-Dhahabi (Arabic: محمد بن احمد بن عثمان بن قيم ، أبو عبد الله شمس الدين الذهبي‎ ‎ ), known as Al-Dhahabi (5 October 1274–3 February 1348), a Shafi'i Muhaddith and historian of Islam.
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Ahmed Ali Lahori Maulana Ahmed Ali Lahori (1887 – 23 February 1962) (Urdu: ‎ ) (Short Name:Ahmed Ali) was a Muslim scholar, Mufassir (Urdu Quran Interpreter) in South Asia. He was one of the great scholars in the history of Deobandi movement. "Maulana Ahmed Ali Lahori was among those true Ulama whose every moment was subservient to the pleasure the Almighty Allah."
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Seyyed Abdollah Behbahani Seyyed Abdollah Behbahani (Persian: سیدعبدالله بهبهانی‎ ‎ , 1840–1910) was a Shi'a theologian and a prominent leader of the constitutional movement. He was born in Najaf and was educated by scholars such as Morteza Ansari.
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Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari Maulana Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari (Arabic: مولانا عبداللہ قریشی) (19 September 1935 – 8 December 2015 Hyderabad) was an Islamic scholar from Hyderabad, India. he served as the khateeb and imam of the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad and the vice chancellor of Jamia Nizamia University.
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Ziauddin Barani Ziauddin Barani (1285–1357) was a Muslim political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate located in present-day North India during Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firuz Shah's reign. He was best known for composing the "Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi", a work on medieval India, which covers the period from the reign of Ghiyas ud din Balban to the first six years of reign of Firuz Shah Tughluq and the "Fatwa-i-Jahandari" which details the caste system among Muslims in the Indian Subcontinent.
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Ahmad al-Wafi Aḥmad al-Wafī (proper name: ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, Arabic: عبد اللّه بن محمد بن إسماعيل‎ ‎ ; born 766-828 CE/149-212 AH in Salamiyah, Syria; Imamate 809-828 CE/193-212 AH) is the eighth Isma'ili Imam. He was the son and successor of the seventh Imam, Muhammad ibn Isma'il. He was called "al-Wafi" "true to his word".
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Muntahi al-Amal Muntahi al-Amal (Persian: منتهی الآمال‎ ‎ ) is a book written by Shaykh Abbas Qumi about the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and his descendants.
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Sunan Gunungjati Sunan Gunungjati (1448 – 19 September 1568) was one of the Wali Songo, or nine saints of Islam revered in Indonesia. He founded the Sultanate of Banten, as well as the Sultanate of Cirebon on the north coast of Java. He was born Syarif Hidayatullah (Arabic: شريف هداية الله‎ ‎ "Sharīf Hidāyah Allāh " in 1448 CE: the child of a dynastic union between Syarif Abdullah Maulana Huda, an Egyptian of Hashemite descent, and Nyai Rara Santang, daughter of the Prabu Siliwangi, King of Sunda ( Pajajaran ). As such, Syarif Hidayatullah could claim descent, on his paternal side, from the Islamic prophet Muhammad, through his daughter, Fatima; and on his mother's side, a Hindu Devaraja of Sunda.
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Khursheed Ahmad Alhaj Khursheed Ahmad or Khurshid Ahmad(Urdu: ‎ ) was a Naat Khawan from Pakistan. He started to recite Naats when he was only a few years old, and by the time of his death he had recited thousands of Naats. He used to proficiently recite Naats not only in Urdu, but also in other languages such as Punjabi, Saraiki, Pashto and Sindhi. The melody of his voice and the unique way of reciting attracted numerous people towards him and soon he had become a famous Naat Khawan.
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Ahmad Shah I Wali Ahmed Shah Al Wali Bahamani ruled the Kingdom of Bidar from 1 October 1422 to 17 April 1436 and was a great patron of arts and culture. He brought artisans from Iran, including the metal-worker Abdulla-bin-Kaiser, who was the master of Bidriware, the inlaying of zinc alloy with silver and gold.
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Shah Ismail Delvi Ismail Delvi (26 April 1779 – 6 May 1831) was an Islamic scholar and a warrior in the jihad proclaimed by Syed Ahmad Barelvi with Pushtun tribes support against the Sikh Empire, which ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent with their base in Punjab in the early half of the 19th century.
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Muhammad Jaunpuri Syed Muhammad Jaunpuri (Urdu: سید محمد جونپورى‎ ) (September 9, 1443 – April 23, 1505 AD), claimed to be Imam Mahdi at Mecca in the Hijri year 901, and is revered as such by Mahdavia. He was born in Jaunpur, traveled throughout India, Arabia and Khorasan, where he died at the town of Farah, Afghanistan at the age of 63.
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Mirza Ahmad Ashtiani Mirza Ahmad Ashtiani was born in Tehran. He was the fourth and youngest son of Mirza Hassan Ashtiani, a prominent jurist under the reign Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. He became a jurist and a Shi'a Imam,
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Ruwaym Abu Muhammad Ruwaym bin Ahmad was an early Muslim jurist, aescetic, saint and reciter of the Qur'an. He was one of the second generation of practitioners of Sufism.
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Syed Jawad Naqvi Syed Jawad Naqvi سید جواد نقوی is an eminent Pakistani Twelver Shia Muslim cleric born in Haripur, Pakistan in 1952. He has three PhD's in Philosophy, Sociology and Fiqh. He has also studied and taught Islam in Iran for more than 30 years. His most prominent teacher was Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli.
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Muhammadi Sharif Muhammadi, also known as Jamia Muhammadi Sharif, is a village of Bhawana Tehsil in Chiniot District of Punjab province of Pakistan. It is named after Mian Muhammadi Juwan( a Sufi and disciple of saints of Multan originally named Mian Imam Deen ), located at 2 km of the left bank of the Chenab River. The village is famous due to its religious background. It's the home of Mualana Muhammad Zakir, a well known saint, and politician. His son Maulana Muhammad Rahmat-ul-Allah Khokhar also a politician, remained MNA. This village has a famous dar-ul-uloom which has produced many religious scholars.
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Masnavi The Masnavi, or Masnavi-i Ma'navi (Persian: مثنوی معنوی‎ ‎ ), also written Mesnevi, Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi also known as Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi poet. It is one of the best known and most influential works of Sufism. The "Masnavi" is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines. It is a spiritual text that teaches Sufis how to reach their goal of being truly in love with God.
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Molavi Ahmad Narouei Molavi Ahmad Narouie (1963 — 18 March 2014; in Persian: مولوی احمد نارویی) was a notable Iranian Sunni theologian, human rights activist, journalist and a vice president of Zahedan seminary.