| Mahammad Talha Kandhlawi | |
| Birth Date: | 28 May 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi, British India |
| Birth Name: | Muhammad Talha |
| Death Place: | Anand Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Resting Place: | Haji Shah Cemetery, Saharanpur |
| Religion: | Islam |
| Office2: | Secretary of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed |
| Term Start2: | 5 March 1985 |
| Term End2: | 30 July 1996 |
| Successor2: | Muhammad Shahid Saharanpuri |
| Office1: | Patron of the Advisory Committee of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed |
| Term Start1: | 28 June 1999 |
| Term End1: | 12 August 2019 |
| Father: | Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi |
| Disciple Of: | Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi |
| Disciples: | Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri, Abdul Haq Azmi, Salman Mazahiri, Ahmed Laat, Burhanuddin Sambhali, Abdul Aleem Farooqui, Taqiuddin Nadvi, Abdullah Maroofi, Salman Mansoorpuri |
| Denomination: | Sunni |
Muhammad Talha Kandhlawi (28 May 1941 – 12 August 2019) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Sufi who served as the president of the advisory committee of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed and its secretary. He was the only son of Muhammad Zakaryyia Kandhlawi.[1]
Muhammad Talha Kandhlawi was born on May 28, 1941 in Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi. He was the only son of Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi. His maternal father was Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi.[2] [3]
He completed the memorization of the Quran in 1956. He received his primary education from Urdu, Persian to Arabic forth jointly in Hazrat Nizamuddin and Saharanpur.
In March 1962 (Shawwal 1381 AH), he was officially admitted to Jamia Mazahir Uloom for the first time, where he studied Sharh Jami, the first two volumes of Al-Hidayah, Mishkat al-Masabih, and other texts for one year. Afterward, he returned to Delhi and completed the remainder of his education there. He graduated in Shaban 1384 AH (December 1964) after completing the year of Hadith (Daura-e-Hadith). During this time, he studied Sahih al-Bukhari with Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi, Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar with Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalwi, and other hadith books of the final year with Izharul Hasan Kandhlawi, Obaidullah Balyawi, and Yaqub Saharanpuri.
He pledged allegiance to Abdul Qadir Raipuri on his father's orders. Then, after the death of Raipuri in 1962, he gave himself to the spiritual training of his father, Zakariyya Kandhlawi. In 1393 AH, his father allowed him to pledge allegiance in the presence of Mahmud Hasan Gangohi and Munawwar Hussain Bihari.
In 1961, Kandhlawi was married to Najma Khatun, daughter of Iftikhar-ul-Hasan Kandhlawi, with whom he had no children and died on 18 June 2018 at Anand Hospital, Meerut.
On 10 August 1982, Kandhlawi was elected as a member of the advisory committee (majlis-e-shura) of Mazahir Uloom, Saharanpur.
On March 5, 1985, the advisory committee of Mazahir Uloom elected him as the Secretary of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed, from which position he formally resigned on May 12, 1993.[4]
On June 28, 1999, the Advisory Committee of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed elected him as the patron of the committee, which he patronized until his death.
From 2007 till his death in 2019, he was also a member of the Advisory Committee of Darul Uloom Deoband.[5] [6]
He played an important role in the movement for the establishment of Islamic schools (kuttāb) to teach the fundamentals of religion to Muslim children from village to village, city to city.
Kandhlawi died on August 12, 2019 (Dhul Hijjah 10, 1440 AH) in Anand Hospital, Meerut.[7] [8] [9] [10] His funeral prayer was offered by Arshad Madani in Saharanpur, where he was buried in his ancestral Haji Shah Cemetery.[11]