Abdur Rab Jaunpuri Explained

Honorific Prefix:Mawlana
Abdur Rab Jaunpuri
Birth Place:Mullatola, Jaunpur, North-Western Provinces
Death Place:Mollatala, Jaunpur, United Provinces
Occupation:Theologian, author
Relatives:Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (grandfather)
Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (uncle)
Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (uncle)
Abdul Batin Jaunpuri (cousin)
Rashid Ahmad Jaunpuri (cousin)
Influences:Karamat Ali Jaunpuri
Religion:Islam
Denomination:Sunni
Jurisprudence:Hanafi
Movement:Taiyuni
Disciples:Muhammad Ishaq
Teacher:Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri
Predecessor:Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri

ʿAbd ar-Rabb Jaunpūrī (Urdu: {{Nastaliq|عبد الرب جونپوری, Bengali: আব্দুর রব জৌনপুরী; 1875 – June 1935) was an Indian Muslim scholar, author and teacher.[1] He was associated with Taiyuni reformist movement, founded by his grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri, and succeeded his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri as the leader of the movement in 1899.[2]

Early life and education

Abdul Rab Jaunpuri was born in 1875 to a scholarly Indian Muslim family in Mullatola, Jaunpur, located in the North-Western Provinces of the British Raj. His father, Hafiz Mahmud Jaunpuri, traced his ancestry to the Arab tribe of Quraysh, with Jaunpuri being a 37th-generation direct descendant of Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun caliph. Jaunpuri's grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri was the founder of the Taiyuni reformist movement and propagated Islam in north India and Bengal.[3] His great grandfather, Abu Ibrahim Shaykh Muhammad Imam Bakhsh ibn Shaykh Jarullah was a student of Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi. Many of his family members were also Islamic scholars, for example, his uncles Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri and Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri, and his cousin Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri.[2]

Jaunpuri's father died when he was five years old, so he was brought up and educated by his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri. He memorised the Qur'an in his childhood, and studied the Arabic and Persian languages. He was said to have mastered the knowledge of ma'rifa.[4]

Career

Jaunpuri worked alongside his uncle in establishing numerous religious institutions in Daulatkhan in the Bengali island of Bhola. He established a langar khana which provided meals to needy people in the area. Jaunpuri toured many different parts of Bengal, giving public lectures, where he gained a large following.[5] Notable locations include Sandwip and Barisal.[6] [7] He also wrote books in Urdu such as Nafeul Khalaiq.[8] Many of the next generation of Islamic scholars were his murids such as Muhammad Ishaq and Abul Hasanat Muhammad Abdul Hayy.[9]

Death

Jaunpuri died in June 1935 in his home neighbourhood of Mullatola in Jaunpur, then located under the United Provinces of British India.[10]

Spiritual genealogy

His spiritual genealogy is as follows:[9]

  1. Prophet Muhammad
  2. Abū Bakr
  3. Salmān al-Fārisī
    1. Al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr Jaʿfar bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī aṣ-Ṣādiq
  4. Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr al-Bisṭāmī
  5. Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Kharaqānī
  6. Abū ʿAlī Faḍl bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Fārmadī
  7. Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī
  8. ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Ghijdawānī
  9. Khwājah Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Riwgarī
  10. Khwājah Maḥmūd al-Anjīr al-Faghnawī
  11. ʿAzīzān ʿAlī ar-Rāmitānī
  12. Sayyid Shams ad-Dīn Amīr Kulāl
  13. Muḥammad Bābā as-Samāsī
  14. Sayyid Bahā ad-Dīn Naqshband
  15. Sayyid Mīr ʿAlā ad-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
  16. Yaʿqūb Charkhī
  17. Khwājah ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār
  18. Khwājah Muḥammad Zāhid Wakhshī
  19. Khwājah Darwesh Muḥammad
  20. Khwājah Muḥammad Amkingī
  21. Khwājah Raḍī ad-Dīn Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh
  22. Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī
  23. Sayyid Ādam bin Nūrī
  24. Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Akbarābādī
  25. Shāh ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm Dehlawī
  26. Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī
  27. Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dehlawī
  28. Sayyid Aḥmad Shahīd
  29. Karāmat ʿAlī bin Abī Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Imām Bakhsh bin Jār Allāh al-Jaunpūrī
  30. Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī
  31. ʿAbd ar-Rabb bin Maḥmud bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī

Notes and References

  1. Book: bn. 84. হযরত খাজা শরফ উদ্দিন চিশতী (রঃ) এবং মায়ার প্রশাসন ও প্রাসঙ্গিক কিছু কথা. 1990. Mubeshah Prakashani. Mullah, Muhammad Ghulam Mustafa.
  2. Jaunpuri, Abdur Rab. Afaz Uddin, Muhammad.
  3. Book: Hagiology of Sufi Saints and the Spread of Islam in South Asia. 2010. Ismail, Muhammad. 172. Jnanada Prakashan. 9788171393756.
  4. Book: bn. 40–41. হজরত মাওলানা হাফেজ এনায়েত উল্যাহ খান. 1961. Patwari, Muhammad Solaiman.
  5. Book: . ur. Khan, Abu Yahya Imam.
  6. Book: আমার দেখা সন্দ্বীপ. bn. 14. সন্দ্বীপ টাউনে সভা সমাবেশ. Taluqdar, Shibbir Ahmed. 2020. Soja Kotha.
  7. Book: বরিশাল দর্পন. 19. bn. Rahman, K. A.. 1980.
  8. Book: bn. বাংলা ভাষায় কুরআন চর্চা. 448. 1986. Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. Mujibur Rahman, Muhammad. 1938.
  9. Book: পরিবাগের শাহ ছাহেব রাহেমাহুল্লার জীবনী. bn. Ahmed, Momtazuddin. 10. 1963.
  10. Book: মওলানা আবদুল আউওয়াল জৌনপুরী. bn. Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. Abdullah, Muhammad. 12–16. Molana Abdul Auoal Jaunpuri.