Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir

Khandaker Abu Nasr Muhammad Abdullah Jahangir (

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Jahangir was born on 5 November 1958 in the village of Dignagar in

Jahangir was married to Fatima, daughter of Pir Abdul Kahhar Siddiqui of Furfura Sharif.^[3] They have one son (Khandaker Usama Jahangir) and three daughters (Zakia Khandaker, Rifat Khandaker and Busaina Khandaker).^[14][15][16]

Education

Jahangir studied at the Bhutiargati Government Primary School in Jhenaidah,

After finishing Kamil at Dhaka Alia Madrasa, he taught Nasna Nurnagar Siddiquia Dakhil Madrasah, Jhenaidah for about two years.[17]^[19]

Jahangir returned from Saudi Arabia in 1998, and became a lecturer at the Islamic University, Bangladesh's Department of Al-Hadith and Islamic Studies. In 2009, he was promoted to the post of Professor for the department. He was also briefly the Shaykh al-Hadith (Professor of Hadith) of Darussalam Madrasa in Dhaka, where he taught Sahih al-Bukhari.^[9] Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria was his junior colleague in Islamic University, Bangladesh and they worked together in the university.

Jahangir served as the Imam of Jhenaidah Jame Mosque and Central Eidgah until his death.^[21] He would regularly participate in public conferences.^[24][25] Jahangir also used to visit remote areas of Bangladesh to preach Islam.^[11][26] Many people and native Islamic scholars have praised him.^[27] In 2007, he was awarded the Best Literary Award by the Quran Education Society after the publication of Iḥyā as-Sunan.^[8][28]

As-Sunnah Trust and Al-Faruq Academy

He established two institutions in the Gobindpur locality of Jhenaidah town. In 20 January 2011, Jahangir founded "As-Sunnah Trust" which is a non-profit charity organisation focusing on social and religious services. The Trust has a school, Madrasah as-Sunnah, which serves 400 students, both boys and girls. The Trust also caters towards elders, and distributes books, healthcare and food to poor people. Other bodies within the Trust include As-Sunnah Publications, As-Sunnah Trust Library, As-Sunnah Trust Mosque (four-storey mosque) and Markaz as-Sunnah Maktab.^[7] The second institution that Jahangir founded was Al-Faruq Academy which provides a two-year advanced hadith studies programme for both Alia and Qaumi students. Other than that, Jahangir also established the Nurani Maktab. Jahangir was also the founder and secretary of Jhenaidah Charity Foundation, and a founding member of the International Islamic Institute.^[29]

Works

Jahangir wrote over 30 books and 50 articles in Bengali, English and Arabic, found in both national and international journals.^[30] A methodological analysis of his jurisprudential literature was conducted at the Asian University of Bangladesh.^[31] His most famous works are Hadīser Name Jaliẏati and Rāhē Belaẏat which are very popular in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.^[32] Among his written works are:^[33]

• English
  • A Woman From Desert (1995)
  • Guidance For Fasting Muslims (1997)
  • A Summary Of Three Fundamentals of Islam. (1997)
• Bengali
  • Iḥyā as-Sunan -- January 2007 (Bengali: এহইয়াউস সুনান)
  • Qur'ān Sunnaher Aloke Poshak -- January 2007 (Bengali: কুরআন-সুন্নাহর আলোকে পোশাক)
  • Khutbah al-Islām, January 2008 -- (Bengali:খুতবাতুল ইসলাম)
  • Islāmer Name Jaṅgibād, January 2009 -- (Bengali:ইসলামের নামে জঙ্গিবাদ)
  • Qurbānī O Zabīḥullāh -- January 2010 (Bengali: কুরবানী ও জবিহুল্লাহ)
  • Rāhē Belaẏat -- January 2013 (Bengali:রাহে বেলায়াত)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-1-5
  • Hadīther Sanad-Bichār Paddhati O Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīther Aloke Ṣalāt al-ʿĪder Atirikta Takbīr -- January 2013 (Bengali: হাদীসের সনদ-বিচার পদ্ধতি ও সহীহ হাদীসের আলোকে সালাতুল ঈদের অতিরিক্ত তাকবীর)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-4-6
  • Pôbitrô Bible: Pôricitô O Pôrjalocôna -- January 2016 (Bengali:পবিত্র বাইবেলঃ পরিচিত ও পর্যালোচনা)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-7-7
  • Hadīther Name Jaliẏati -- January 2017 (Bengali: হাদিসের নামে জালিয়াতি)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-1-5
  • Qur'ān Sunnaher Aloke Islāmī ʿAqīdāh -- January 2017 (Bengali: কুরআন সুন্নাহের আলোকে ইসলামী আকিদা)
    ISBN 978-984-93281-0-0
  • Ṣalāter Maddhe Hāt Bāndhār Bidhān -- January 2017 (Bengali: সালাতের মধ্যে হাত বাধার বিধান)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-6-0
  • Ṣaḥīḥ Masnūn Waẓīfah -- January 2017 (Bengali: সহি মাসনুন অজিফা)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-2-2
  • Furfurar Pīr ʿAllāmah Abū Jaʿfar Ṣiddīqī Rôchitô Al-Mawzuʿāt -- January 2017 (Bengali: ফুরফুরার পীর আল্লামা আবু জাফর সিদ্দিকী আল মাওজুয়াত)
    ISBN 978-984-93281-8-6
  • Jiggasha O Jobab (4 Part) -- January 2018 (Bengali: জিজ্ঞাসা ও জবাব)
    ISBN 978-984-93282-1-6, 978-984-93282-2-3, 978-984-93633-2-3, 978-984-93633-7-8
  • Ṣalāt, Duʿāʾ O Zikir -- January 2018 (Bengali: সালাত, দোয়া ও জিকির)
    ISBN 978-984-93633-1-6
  • Ramadānēr Saogat -- January 2018 (Bengali: রামাদানের সওগাত)
    ISBN 978-984-93633-0-9
  • ʿĪd-e-Mīlād an-Nabī -- January 2018 (Bengali: ঈদে মিলাদুন্নবী)
    ISBN 978-984-93282-9-2
  • Kitāb al-Muqaddas, Injīl Sharīf O ʿĪsāẏī Dharma -- January 2018 (Bengali: কিতাবুল মোকাদ্দস, ইঞ্জিল শরীফ ও ঈসায়ী ধর্ম)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-0-8
  • Roza (Bengali: রোজা)
  • Islāmer Tin Mūlnīti (Bengali: ইসলামের তিন মূলনীতি)
  • Ḥajjer Adhyāttik Shikkhā (Bengali: হজ্জ্বের আধ্যাত্মিক শিক্ষা)
    ISBN 978-984-93282-8-5
  • Rasūlullāh (Sa)-er Poshak o Poshaker Islāmī Bidhanmala 2008 (Bengali: রাসুলুল্লাহ (সা)-এর পোশাক ও পোশাকের ইসলামি বিধানমালা)
    ISBN 984-06--1184-4
  • Munājāt O Namāz (Bengali: মুনাজাত ও নামায)
  • Allāhr Pothe Daʿwat (Bengali: আল্লাহর পথে দাওয়াত)
  • Bangladeshe Ushôr Ba Fôsôler Zakat: Guruttô O Prôyog (Bengali: বাংলাদেশে উশর বা ফসলের যাকাত: গুরুত্ব ও প্রয়োগ)
  • Qur'ān Sunnahr Aloke Jamāʿat O Oikko, 2017 (Bengali: কুরআন সুন্নাহর আলোকে জামায়াত ও ঐক্য)
  • Musalmanī Neṣāb: Arakāne Islām O Waẓīfa-e-Rasūl, 2018 (Bengali: মুসলমানী নেসাব: আরাকানে ইসলাম ও ওযীফায়ে রাসূল (সা.))
    ISBN 978-984-93282-3-0
• Arabic
  • Adab al-Ḥadīth, 2007 (Arabic: أدب الحديث)
  • Buḥūth fī al-ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth, January 2007 (Arabic: بحوث في العلوم الحديث)[37]
• Translatation:
  • ʿAlā Fiqh al-Akbar January 2014 (Bengali: আল ফিকহুল আকবর)
    ISBN 978-984-90053-5-3
  • Fiqh as-Sunan al-Āthār (3 Part) -- January 2019 (Bengali: ফিকহুস সুনান আল আসার)
    ISBN 978-984-93633-3-0, 978-984-93633-5-4, 978-984-93633-6-1
  • Ekjôn Japanī Narīr Drishtite Ḥijāb (Bengali: একজন জাপানি নারীর দৃষ্টিতে হিজাব)
  • Iẓhār al-Ḥaqq (3 part) -- January 2020 (Bengali: ইযহারুল হক)
    ISBN 978-984-93282-4-7, 978-984-93633-9-2

Abdullah Jahangir died in a road accident on the spot on 11 May 2016, on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Magura in the collision of his microbus and covered-van.^{[38][39][40][41]} Many people condoled his death.^[42][43][44]

In 2017, a memoir book was written and dedicated to Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir titled Preronar Batighor (Beacon of Inspiration) edited by Abul Kalam Azad Azhari of the Bangladesh National Mufassir Council.

• Azhari, Abul Kalam Azad, ed. (2017). Preronar Batighor প্রেরণার বাতিঘর স্মারকগ্রন্থ [The Beacon of Inspiration: A Memoir] (in Bengali). Dhaka: Bangladesh National Mufassir Council. p. 90. (Biography of Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir)

See also

• Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria
• Sheikh Ahmadullah

References