Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri
Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn ʿAlīm ibn Dānish Miyān بن عليم بن دانش ميان | |
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Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Bāyamfūrī البايمفوري | |
Muslim leader | ||
Teacher | Ashraf Ali Thanvi, Shah Yaqub Badarpuri | |
Influenced | ||
Member of the 3rd Ayub Khan | ||
Preceded by | Faizul Hasan | |
Succeeded by | Ajmal Ali Choudhury | |
Constituency | Sylhet-II | |
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Mushāhid Aḥmad Bāyampūrī (
Early life and education
Mohammad Mushahid Ahmad was born on a Friday in
Bayampuri studied the
He began his career as a teacher after completing his studies at the madrasa but returned to education later on in North India. He studied for five years at the Madrasa Aliya of Rampur State and two year at the Alia Madrasa of Meerut. He wrote two books in this period which were published under the name of his teacher. Although he went back to teaching in Bengal after these seven years, Mushahid later enrolled at the Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur in 1936 where he graduated with a degree and got the highest mark in Hadith studies after one and a half years of studying there.[5][6][7]
Career
Bayampuri briefly taught at the Lalarchak Primary School before spending seven years at North India. He gave Hadith studies classes at the Alia madrasas of Badarpur and Rampur. Prior to his studies at Deoband, he taught at his local Lalarchar Rahmania Madrasa too.[3]
When he returned to Bengal, he was offered a position as Shaykhul Hadith at the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah. He also served in this position at the Gachhbari Jamiul Uloom Kamil Madrasa, and during his term here, this madrasa was nicknamed The Second Darul Uloom Deoband. However, as he did not get on well with the management at Gachhbari, Bayampuri left the madrasa to join the Kanaighat Islamia Madrasa in 1953. He eventually became the principal and Shaykhul Hadith of this madrasa until his death, and renamed it to Darul Uloom Kanaighat. In order to unite the madrasas of eastern Sylhet (Sylhet and Moulvibazar), he established the Azad Dini Arabic Madrasa Education Board in 1953. He served as the board's president for the rest of his life. The board now has authority over 175 madrasas. In Ramadan, he used to give lectures at the Bandarbazar Jame Mosque from tarawih to suhur.[3]
Political career
As a student of
During his term, he felt that the strength of Islamic parties were even close to the strength needed to change the political landscape. As a result, he joined
During his time in parliament, Bayampuri petitioned for the erstwhile
Works
Mushahid Ahmad has written a number of works in Arabic, Urdu and Bengali:
- al-Fatḥ al-Karīm fī Siyāsah an-Nabī al-Amīn (1948, Urdu). (Translated into Bengali by Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali as Islamer Raśṭrīyô O Ôrthônoitik Uttôradhikar)
- al-Furqān bayna al-Ḥaqq wa al-Bāṭil fī ʿIlm at-Taṣawwuf wa al-Iḥsān
- al-Furqān bayna Awliyāʼ ar-Raḥmān wa Awliyāʼ ash-Shayṭān
- Śôtter Alo (2 vols)
- Islame Bhoṭ o Bhoṭer Ôdhikar
- Semā al-Qurʼān
- Iẓhār-e-Ḥaqq
- al-Laṭāʼif ar-Rabbāniyyah fī Sūrah Tafsīr al-Fatiḥah
Personal life
Bayampuri married 10 times,[9] and is the father of 11 children.[10] He completed
Although he was a student of both
Death and legacy
Bayampuri died in his village, on the night of
A bridge on the Surma River in Kanaighat Upazila is named after Bayampuri. He has been praised by numerous scholars and is mentioned in various books. During Bayampuri's return from Assam to Sylhet, Hussain Ahmed Madani mentioned that "an enlightenment is going towards Sylhet". Abdul Karim Shaykh-e-Kouria mentioned that if all of the ilm of the scholars of Sylhet District were put together, they would match only up to the knee of Bayampuri.[12]
His son, Sheikhzada Faruq Ahmad, contested in the
See also
References
- ^ Assembly, Pakistan National (1963). Debates: Official Report. Manager of Publications. p. 1522.
- ^ Harun, Mizan (2018). رجال صنعوا التاريخ وخدموا الإسلام والعلم في بنغلاديش للشاملة [Men Who Shaped History And Served Islamic Science In Bangladesh: A Comprehensive Perspective] (in Arabic). Dhaka: Darul Bayan. pp. 183–190.
- ^ a b c d Faizul Bari, Muhammad. আল্লামা মুশাহিদ (রহ.) জীবন ও কর্ম (in Bengali).
- ^ a b c d e "সিলেট-৫: একাল সেকাল". Sylhet Report (in Bengali). 28 December 2018.
- ^ Mawlana Nur Muhammad Azmi. "2.2 বঙ্গে এলমে হাদীছ" [2.2 Knowledge of Hadith in Bengal]. হাদীছের তত্ত্ব ও ইতিহাস [Information and history of Hadith] (in Bengali). Emdadia Library. p. 30.
মাওলানা মোশাহেদ ছাহেব
- ^ Tarikh al-Hadith Ma`arif
- ^ "শায়খুল হাদিস আল্লামা মুশাহিদ বায়মপুরী(রহঃ)". Kanaighat News (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE 3RD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PAKISTAN FROM 1962-1964" (PDF). na.gov.pk. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ^ Durlavpuri, Khalid Saifullah. যুগের দিশারি আল্লামা মুশাহিদ বায়মপুরী রাহ (in Bengali).
- ^ Rahman, Fazlur. সিলেটের একশত একজন (in Bengali).
- ^ ৬০ সালা দস্তারবন্দী মহাসম্মেলন স্মারক দারুল উলুম কানাইঘাট মাদরাসা (in Bengali), 2014
- ^ Rahman, Muhibur. আল্লামা মুশাহিদ বায়ামপুরীর জীবন ও চিন্তাধারা (in Bengali).