Lives of Companions Scholars and Saints in Jumada al Ula

Our Pious Predecessors

Jumādā al-Ūlā is the fifth month of the Islamic year. In the Jumādā al-Ūlā 1438AH to 1446AH editions of Monthly Magazine Faizan-e-Madinah, 121 Companions رَضِیَ اللّٰهُ عَنْهُم, saints, and scholars رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ who passed away in this month were briefly introduced. Read about 11 more below:

The Noble Companions رَضِیَ اللّٰهُ عَنْهُم

Martyrs of the Siege of Makkah: On the first of Dhū al-Hijjah 72AH, Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf laid siege to Makkah against Sayyidunā ꜤAbdullāh b. Zubayr رَضِیَ اللّٰهُ عَنْهُما and his army. The siege lasted for approximately five and a half months. On 17^th Jumādā al-Ūlā 73AH, Sayyidunā ꜤAbdullāh b. Zubayr رَضِیَ اللّٰهُ عَنْهُما was martyred along with 240 loyal companions.[1]

(1) Sayyidunā Abū Kilāb b. Abū ṢaꜤṣaꜤah ꜤAmr b. Zayd al-Māzinī al-Anṣārī رَضِىَ اللّٰهُ عَـنْهُ was born in Madinah in the Banū Māzin clan of the Khazraj tribe. He embraced Islam before the Battle of Uhud and participated in that battle as well as later campaigns. He was martyred in the Battle of Muˈtah (Jumādā al-Ūlā 8AH).[2]

ꜤAbdullāh b. ꜤUmārah b. Quddāḥ states in Nasab al-Anṣār (The Lineage of the Ansar): “Among the children of ꜤAwf were Qays b. Abī ṢaꜤṣaꜤah and his brother Abū Kilāb, who fought in the Battle of Uhud and subsequent battles until both were martyred in the Battle of Mu'tah. Ibn SaꜤd also records the same.”

Islamic Scholars رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ

(2) Imām Isḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Marwazī al-Kawsaj رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was a Hanbali jurist, trustworthy narrator, and a Hadith master. Among his teachers were Hadith scholars such as Sayyidunā Sufyān b. ꜤUyaynah and Sayyidunā WakīꜤ b. Jarrāḥ, and among his students were great personalities like Shaykh Abū ZurꜤah al-Rāzī and Abū Bakr b. Khuzaymah. He was born after 170AH and passed away on 20^th Jumādā al-Ūlā 251AH. He was laid to rest in Nishapur, Iran.[3]

(3) Imām ꜤAllāmah Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Kalbī al-Gharnāṭī al-Mālikī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was born in Granada, Andalusia in 693AH and was martyred on 7^th Jumādā al-Ūlā 741AH in the Battle of Ṭarīf, Andalusia. He spent his life as a jurist, poet, author, historian, and orator, admonishing and exhorting. Among his dozen works, al-Tashīl li-ꜤUlūm al-Tanzīl, al-Anwār al-Sanniyah, and Taṣfiyat al-Qulūb are particularly noteworthy.[4]

(4) Khawājah MuꜤaẓẓam al-Dīn Marolvī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was born in Marolah (present-day Mu'azzamabad), district Bhalwal, Punjab, in 1247AH. He was a Ḥāfiẓ of the noble Quran, a certified Islamic scholar, a disciple and spiritual successor of Khawājah Shams al-ꜤĀrifīn Siyālvī, and the founder of Khānqāh MuꜤaẓẓamiyyah. Thousands entered his spiritual circle. He passed away on 10th Jumādā al-Ūlā 1325AH and is laid to rest in Mu'azzamabad Sharif where many people come to visit him.[5]

(5) Faqīhah Ḥabībah bint Muḥammad b. JaꜤfar al-Kattānī رحمۃ اللہ علیہا was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1303AH and passed away in Jumādā al-Ūlā 1344AH in Damascus, Syria, where she is laid to rest in Jabal Qāsīyūn. She memorized the noble Quran, and was a jurist, a gnostic, and a pious, devout worshipper. She acquired religious knowledge from her father, Imām Muḥammad b. JaꜤfar al-Kattānī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه. She received authorisations (ijāzāt) from her grandfather Shaykh JaꜤfar al-Kattānī, her cousin Shaykh Muḥammad b. ꜤAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī, Ḥabīb Aḥmad b. Ḥasan al-ꜤAṭṭās, and Shaykh Badr al-Dīn Baybānī al-Ḥasanī رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ, among others. She migrated from her homeland to Madinah and later to Damascus.[6]

(6) Mufti Aḥmad Jī Chishtī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was born on 3^rd RabīꜤ al-Awwal 1288AH into a scholarly family and passed away on 8^th Jumādā al-Ūlā 1363AH. He was a distinguished Islamic scholar, a teacher, and an Islamic jurist. He rendered services in teaching and writing legal verdicts for approximately 50 years. He was actively involved in the Tehreek-e-Khatm-e-Nubuwwat (Movement for the Finality of Prophethood) alongside his spiritual guide, Pīr Sayyid Mehr ꜤAlī Shāh.[7]

(7)  The Grand Mufti of Pakistan Mufti Muḥammad Ṣāḥibdād Khān Jamālī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was born in Luni, district Sibi, Balochistan, in 1316AH and passed away on 1^st Jumādā al-Ūlā 1385AH. His resting place is in Sultan Kot, district Shikarpur, Sindh. He was a graduate of Madrasah Hāshimiyyah Qāsimiyyah, Garhi Yasin, adorned with inner and outer beauty, the Chief Justice of the state of Qalat, and the editor of the monthly Al-Humāyūn and Al-Islām publications in Sultan Kot. He was affiliated with the Qādiriyyah spiritual order, a teacher in several seminaries including Jamiah Rāshidiyyah Pīr Jo Goth, the chief of legal verdicts for J.U.P. Karachi, a supporter of the Pakistan Movement and the Movement for the Finality of Prophethood, and author of over 24 books and booklets.[8]

(8) Ustādh al-ꜤUlamā’ wa al-Aṭibbāˈ, ꜤAllāmah Mufti Ḥakīm Muḥammad YaꜤqūb Khān Siālkotī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was born around 1330AH in Sialkot and passed away on 5^th Jumādā al-Ūlā 1418AH. He was laid to rest in Rangpur graveyard, Sialkot. He was a graduate of Dār al-ꜤUlūm Ḥizb al-Aḥnāf Lahore and JāmiꜤat al-Azhar Egypt. He was also a reliable ḥakīm, the city Mufti, a disciple of Amir-e-Millat, and the Imam and orator of Jamia Masjid Chaudharian Rizwiyyah JamāꜤatiyyah, also known as ꜤAllāmah Muḥammad YaꜤqūb Khān wali Main Bazar Rangpur. He also founded Mujahid Pharmacy and Mujahid Laboratories.[9]

The Saints رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ

(9) Sayyidunā Shāh ꜤĀlam Sayyid Muḥammad, known as Shāh Manjhan Bukhārī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was a spiritual guide of the Suhrawardiyyah order, a master of both outward and inward knowledge, and a spiritual successor of his father, Burhān al-Dīn Qutb-e-ꜤĀlam Bukhārī and Shaykh Aḥmad Khatū Maghribī. He passed away on 8^th Jumādā al-Ūlā 880AH. His shrine is in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.[10]

(10) Imām al-ꜤĀshiqīn Shāh Rukn al-dīn ꜤIshq Aẓīmabādī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was born in 1127AH and passed away in 1203AH. His ꜤUrs (anniversary of passing away) is held on 7^th Jumādā al-Ūlā. His resting place in Khanqah Takyah, Muhallah Matin Ghat, Patna, Bihar, is visited by many people. He was a devout worshipper, an ascetic, and a powerful, eloquent poet with an anthology to his name. He was also a master of both ShariꜤah and Ṭarīqah, a shaykh of the Abū al-ꜤAlāˈiyyah Farhādiyyah spiritual order, and author of several books.[11]

(11) Pīr-e-Ṭarīqat Mawlānā Ghulām Nabī Bār Wāle رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was born in Pind Dadan Khan and passed away on 14^th Jumādā al-Ūlā 1373AH. His shrine is in Kotli, Kashmir, next to the shrine of Mawlānā Baqā Muḥammad. He was the spiritual successor of Qibla-e-ꜤĀlam Khawājah Qaḍī Muḥammad Sulṭān ꜤĀlam Chīchwī and a devotee of his spiritual master. He was a personification of the fear of Allah, pious and God-fearing, and the Imam and orator of Jamia Masjid Chak Hakimiyan, Tehsil Phalia, district Mandi Bahauddin.[12]