Al-Kutub al-Sittah

Personal life
In 1397, at the age of twenty-five, he married Anas Khatun, who was a hadith expert in her own right, holding ijazas
from Hafiz al-Iraqi. She gave celebrated public lectures to crowds of ulema, including al-Sakhawi.
Positions
Ibn Hajar went on to be appointed to the position of Egyptian chief-judge (Qadi) several times.
Death
Ibn Hajar died after Isha prayers on February 2, 1449 at the age of seventy-nine. His funeral in Cairo was attended
by an estimated fifty thousand people, including the sultan and the caliph.
Works
Ibn Hajar authored more than fifty works on hadith, hadith terminology, biographical evaluation, history, Quranic
exegesis , poetry and Shafi'i jurisprudence.
• Fath al-Bari – considered the most prominent and reliable commentary on al-Bukhari's Jami` al-Sahih: In 1414
(817 A.H.), Ibn Hajar commenced the enormous task of assembling his commentary on Sahih Bukhari. Ibn Rajab
had begun to write a huge commentary on Sahih Bukhari in the 1390s with the title of Fath al-Bari, thus Ibn Hajar
decided to name his own commentary with the same title, Fath al-Bari, which in time became the most valued
commentary of Sahih Bukhari. When it was finished, in December 1428 (Rajab 842 A.H.), a celebration was held
near Cairo, attended by the ulema, judges, and leading Egyptian personalities. Ibn Hajar read the final pages of his
work, after which poets recited eulogies and gold was distributed. It was, according to historian Ibn Iyaas d. 930
A.H., 'the greatest celebration of the age in Egypt.'
• al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-Sahaba – the most comprehensive dictionary of the Companions.
• al-Durar al-Kamina – a biographical dictionary of leading figures of the eighth century.
• Tahdhib al-Tahdhib – an abbreviation of Tahdhib al-Kamal, the encyclopedia of hadith narrators by Yusuf ibn
Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi
• Taqrib al-Tahdhib – the abridgement of Tahthib al-Tahthib.
• Ta'jil al-Manfa'ah – biographies of the narrators of the Musnads of the four Imams, not found in al-Tahthib.
• Bulugh al-Maram min adillat al-ahkam – on hadith used in Shafi'i fiqh.
•• Nata'ij al-Afkar fi Takhrij Ahadith al-Adhkar
• Lisan al-Mizan – a reworking of Mizan al-'Itidal by al-Dhahabi.
•• Talkhis al-Habir fi Takhrij al-Rafi`i al-Kabir
•• al-Diraya fi Takhrij Ahadith al-Hidaya
•• Taghliq al-Ta`liq `ala Sahih al-Bukhari
•• Risala Tadhkirat al-Athar
• al-Matalib al-`Aliya bi Zawa'id al-Masanid al-Thamaniya
• Nukhbat al-Fikar along with his explanation of it entitled Nuzhah al-Nathr in hadith terminology
• al-Nukat ala Kitab ibn al-Salah – commentary of the Muqaddimah of Ibn al-Salah
• al-Qawl al-Musaddad fi Musnad Ahmad a discussion of hadith of disputed authenticity in the Musnad of Ahmad
•• Silsilat al-Dhahab
•• Ta`rif Ahl al-Taqdis bi Maratib al-Mawsufin bi al-Tadlis

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References
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www.
 
usc.
 
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dept/
 
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Usc.edu. . Retrieved 2010-03-21.
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co.
 
uk/
 
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ahm/
 
bari.
 
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www.
 
central-mosque.
 
com/
 
biographies/
 
asqalani2.
htm)
Kanz al-Ummal
Treasure of the Doers of Good Deeds(Arabic: Kanz al-‘Ummāl fī sunan al-aqwāl wa'l af‘āl is an Islamic hadith
collection, collected by the Islamic Scholar Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi.
Description
Ali al-Muttaqi ‘s major work is Kanz al-‘Ummāl regarding which his teacher Abu al-Hasan al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddiqī says :
“ Al-Suyūṭī has done a great favor upon the entire world by writing al-Jāmi‘ al-Saghīr and ‘Ali al-Muttaqī has done a
great service to al-Suyūṭī by compiling and arranging his work of al-Jāmi‘ al-Saghīr“.
Editions
• First Published by Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif Hyderabad Deccan, edited by the scholars of Jamia Nizamia
.
• Published by Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah, Lebanon, 1998, edited by Mahmud Umar al-Dumyati
.
The author
Al-Muttaqī was born 888 AH, CE 1472 in Burhanpur which is a town situated in modern day Southern Madhya
Pardesh on the banks of the river Tapti, India. ‘Alī al-Muttaqī writes in his autobiography that when he was eight
years old, it occurred to him father to enroll him in the service of Shaykh Bajan. The Shaykh instructed him in samā‘
and Shaykh ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Bajan taught me adhkār [pl. of "dhikr"]. ‘Ali al- Muttaqī soon after earned his living as a
scribe. He travelled to different regions of Hindustan and travelled to Multan to meet Shaykh Ḥisām al-Dīn
al-Muttaqī and stayed under his guardianship, here he was instructed in Taṣawwuf. ‘Alī al-Muttaqī then travelled to
Makkah and stayed in the company of Abu al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, from whom he acquired knowledge of
hadith and Taṣawwuf. ‘Alī al- Muttaqī wrote some of his early works in Makkah. ‘Alī al-Muttaqī also studied with
the famous scholar of hadith Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin Hajar al-Makkī. ‘Alī al-Muttaqī returned twice to
India to Gujarat which was ruled by Maḥmūd Shāh who was an admirer of the Shaykh.

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Works
The eminent Ahl-i Hadith religious scholar Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan of Bhopal says regarding Shaykh ‘Alī
al-Muttaqī: “I have read and studied the works of Shaykh ‘Alī al-Muttaqī, his works are very beneficial and
informative and complete.”
From the works of Shaykh ‘Alī al-Muttaqī:
1. Kanz al-‘Ummāl , this is his most famous work. This work is printed.
2.
2. Talkhīṣ al-Bayān, this book is regarding the Mahdi of the last time.
3. Maṭla‘ al-Ghāyah, it is a summary of Ibn al-Athīr’s "Al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-Aḥādīth". A manuscript of this was
available in the Berlin Library.
4. Ghāyat al-Kamāl fī Bayān Afḍal al-‘Amaml , a copy of it is in the Dār al-‘Ulūm library of Peshawar , a copy also
exists in Institute of Oriental Manuscripts Leningrad.
5. Al-Fuṣūl fī Sharḥ Jami‘ al-Uṣūl, a hand written manuscript by ‘Alī al-Muttaqī is in the collections of Khuda
Bakhsh Oriental Public Library
6. Jawāmi‘ Kalim fī al-Mawāḍi‘ wa'l-Ḥikam, manuscripts of this work is available in many Indian collections also in
Paris, Berlin, and al-Azhar.
7.
7. Al-Aḥādīth al-Mutawattira, a manuscript is available Raza Library Rampur, India.
8.
8. Al-Rutba al-Fākhira, this deals with "taṣawwuf".
9.
9. Tabyīn al-Ṭarīq, also "taṣawwuf".
10. Al-Ḥukm al-‘Irfānīya, also "taṣawwuf".
11. Al-Burhān al-Jalī fī Ma‘rifat al-Walī.
Other books by Shaykh ‘Alī al-Muttaqī are mentioned in the introduction of "Kanz al-‘Ummāl", a rare manuscript of
the Shaykh is available in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland. Shaykh ‘Alī al-Muttaqī died in Makkah
((1567 CE/975 AH). He was buried in the Mu’alla graveyard.
References

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Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi
Ala al-Din Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik Husam al-Din al-Muttaqi al-Hindi (The exalter of faith, Ali son of servant of
AllahThe King, from India) (died 1567 CE/975 AH) was a Sunni Muslim Islamic scholar who is known for writing
Kanz al-Ummal.
[1]
References
[1] http:/
 
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www.
 
al-eman.
 
com/
 
islamlib/
 
viewtoc.
 
asp?BID=137>
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al-islam.
 
org/
 
ghadir/
 
context.
 
asp?context=ghadir&
 
tl=0&
 
view=326
Minhaj us Sawi
Al-Minhaj us-Sawi min-al-Hadith-in-Nabawi is a Hadith compendium compiled by Tahir ul-Qadri. It is compiled
in the pattern and style of Imam Nawawi’s Riyadh al-Salihin ﻦﻴﺤﻟﺎﺼﻟﺍ ﺽﺎﻳﺭ and Khatib Tabrizi’s Mishkat al-Masabih It
is a compendium of Prophetic Hadiths, categorised under a number of headings and compiled with clear relevance to
the lives and situation of Muslims in the modern age. The work is authenticated by a rigorous and detailed process of
Takhreej – referencing each hadith to its sources – from a study of over 300 authentic works of hadith. The writer
has set up 16 chapters of the book including an abridged version of his chains of authorities (Mukhtasar al-Jawahir
al-Bahira fi al-Asanid at-Tahira) and a firm word on the science of hadith and branches of doctrine which is termed
as al-Khutba as-Sadida fi Usul al-Hadith wa Furu al-Aqida.This book contains one thousand pages & eleven hundred
ahadith. This book prepares the ground for correction of religious beliefs, inspires readers to act piously and provides
practical guidance in practical life. English Version of this book has been released in Januara 2012. It is split into 2
volumes: Prophetic Virtues and Miracles and Righteous Character and Social Interactions. .
[1][2][3]
on April 16, 2009 inauguration ceremony of al-Minhaj-us-Sawi was conducted in which Renowned religious
scholar, Allama Dr Muhammad Sarfraz Naeemi was chief guest.
[4]
gathering statements related to subjects such as:
• The supreme status and superiority of the Prophet Muhammad,
•• Etiquette and daily relations,
• The rak`as of Tarawih prayer,
•• The Prophet Muhammad's manner of prayer
As well as these it contains many other extremely significant issues on which a lot of misconceptions and confusion
exists such as:
• Ruling of the khawarij, apostates and those who disparage the Prophet Muhammad
•• Virtue of Knowledge and righteous actions
• Nobility of the Ummah
•• Righteousness, bonds of kin and rights
•• Etiquettes and daily relations
•• Its final chapter throws light on uni-link and bi-link traditions reported by Imam al-Azam Abu Hanifa (ra) and
tri-link traditions reported by Imam Bukhari.

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References
[1] Minhaj-us-Sawi in English (http:/
 
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www.
 
minhajpublications.
 
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?p=632)
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7953/
Ulama-o-Mashaykh-Convention--inaugural-ceremony-of-al-Minhaj-us-Sawi.
 
html)
External links
• Al-Minhaj As-Sawi to Read Online (http:/
 
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www.
 
minhajbooks.
 
com/
 
books/
 
index.
 
php?mod=btext&
 
cid=2&
bid=35&
 
read=img&
 
lang=en)
• Course available on hadith covering a comprehensive study of Al-Minhaj As-Sawi (http:/
 
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www.
 
farghana.
 
org/
 
)
• Other books on Hadith by the same author (http:/
 
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www.
 
minhajbooks.
 
com/
 
books/
 
index.
 
php?mod=btext&
cid=2&
 
lang=en)
• Minhaj-us-Sawi in English (http:/
 
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www.
 
minhajpublications.
 
com/
 
?p=632)

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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
ﯼﺭﺩﺎﻘﻟﺍ ﺮﮨﺎﻃ ﺪﻤﺤﻣ
Full name
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
ﯼﺭﺩﺎﻘﻟﺍ ﺮﮨﺎﻃ ﺪﻤﺤﻣ
Born
February 19, 1951
Region
South Asia
School/tradition Hanafi Qadiriyya Sufi
Main interests
Sufism, Islamic Philosophy, Hadith, Tafsir, Seerah, Tasawwuf, Politics[1]
Notable ideas
Fatwa on Terrorism, Concept of Jihad, interfaith dialogue
Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri (Urdu: 
ﯼﺭﺩﺎﻘﻟﺍ ﺮﮨﺎﻃ ﺪﻤﺤﻣ
) (born February 19, 1951) is a Pakistani Sufi scholar
[2][3][4]
and former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab.
[5] 
Qadri was recently
described by the CNN-IBN as the 'International Peace Ambassador'.
[6] 
Qadri was nominated for the 2012 Nobel
Peace Prize
[7]
Qadri is the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, a broad-based global Sufi organization
[8] 
working in the fields
of welfare, human rights and education. Its objectives are the promotion of a moderate and non-extremist vision of
Islam, the establishment of good relations and understanding between communities and religions,
[9] 
and the
education of youth through "employing the methods of Sufism".
[10] 
He also founded The Minhaj University of
which he is the head of the Board of Governors, as well as an international relief charity, Minhaj Welfare
Foundation.
[11]
Qadri was also the founding chairman of the political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), although he is no longer
involved in politics. Qadri spoke at the World Economic Forum in January 2011.
[12]
Biography
Qadri is the son of Farid-ud-Din Qadri and his ancestors belong to the Punjabi Sial family of Jhang near Sargodha. 
Qadri started his education at the Christian 'Sacred Heart School' in Jhang, where he learnt English and was exposed 
to Christianity at an early age. He learnt under Mawlana Diya' al-Din al-Madani (d. 1981, aged 107) and studied 
Hadith from Muhaddith al-Hijaz al-Sayyid ‘Alawi ibn ‘Abbas al-Maliki al-Makki (d. 1971). Al-Shaykh al-Sayyid 
‘Alawis son, the late muhaddith of al-Hijaz, al-Sayyid Muhammad ibn ‘Alawi al-Maliki al-Makki (d. 2004) who was 
the foremost Sunni authority of the Middle East gave all of his fathers ijazas and isnads to Qadri in written form 
which he had previously received verbally, as well as his own chains.
[13] 
Qadri continued his quest for knowledge 
early in his life, making sama‘
[14] 
of Hadith from the then Muhaddith al-A‘zam of Pakistan, Sardar Ahmad al-Qadri

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(d. 1962).
[15]
Qadri has also learnt from a number of other prominent classical authorities in the Islamic sciences such as the
following scholars:
Abu al-Barakat Ahmad al-Qadri al-Alwari
[16]
Abd al-Rashid al-Ridwi
[17]
Tahir Allauddin al-Qadri al-Gilani
[18]
Ahmad al-Zubaydi
[19]
Abd al-Ma‘bud al-Jilani
[16]
Farid al-Din Qadri
[16]
Ahmad Saeed Kazmi
[15]
Husayn ibn Ahmad ‘Usayran
[20]
Muhammad Fatih al-Kattani
[20]
Burhan Ahmad al-Faruqi
[20]
Habib ‘Umar ibn Hafiz of Hadramawt in Yemen,
receiving Ijazas from Qadri
Qadri studied law at the University of the Punjab, Lahore where he
graduated with an LLB in 1974, gaining a Gold Medal for his
academic performances.
[21] 
Following a period of legal practice as an
advocate, he taught law at the University of the Punjab from 1978 to
1983 and then gained his PhD 
[22] 
in Islamic Law (Punishments in
Islam, their Classification and Philosophy) from the same university in
1986 where his supervisors were Bashir Ahmad Siddiqui (‘Ulum
al-Islamiyya) and Justice Javaid Iqbal.
[23][24] 
He was appointed as a
professor of Law at the University of Punjab, where he taught British,
US and Islamic constitutional law.
[25]
He was appointed as a Jurist Consultant (legal adviser) on Islamic law
for the Supreme Court and the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan and also worked as a specialist adviser on Islamic
curricula for the Federal Ministry of Education (Pakistan). At various times between 1983 and 1987, he received and
declined offers for various high-level posts.
He has delivered more than 6,000 lectures on economy and political studies, religious philosophy, law, Sufism,
medical sciences, material sciences and astronomy. Numerous lectures are available in Urdu, English and Arabic at
Islamic bookshops around the world.
Qadri has himself given ijaza to a number of leading Muslim scholars, making them his students, linking them
through himself back to Muhammad.
[26][27]
Founding of Minhaj-ul-Quran
Qadri founded a Sufism-based organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran International in October 1981 and spent the next
decade expanding it nationally and internationally.
[28] 
In 1987, the headquarters of Minhaj-ul-Quran, based in
Lahore, Pakistan was inaugurated by Sufi saint Tahir Allauddin who is now regarded as the organisation's spiritual
founder.
[29] 
The goal of the organisation is fairly broad, namely to promote religious moderation, effective and
sound education, inter-faith dialogue and harmony, and a moderate interpretation of Islam employing methods of
Sufism.
[30] 
Over the past 30 years, the institute has reportedly expanded to over 90 countries. During the March 2011
session the United Nations Economic and Social Council granted special consultative status to Qadri's organisation
Minhaj-ul-Quran International.
[31]

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Noteworthy Events
In 2006, Qadri was a keynote speaker at the Muslims of Europe Conference in Istanbul, Turkey to discuss identity,
citizenship, and challenges and opportunities for European Muslims.
[32]
On 31 August 2008, Qadri delivered a lecture entitled "Islam on Peace, Integration and Human Rights" hosted by
Farghana Institute Manchester.
[33]
In March 2010 he gained media attention for the launch of his unconditional Fatwa on Terrorism and appeared on
various international media outlets including Sky News, BBC News, ITV, EuroNews, Al-Jazeera, CNN and CNN's
Amanpour, CBC News, Russia Today, Al Arabiya and various other outlets.
[34] 
He appeared on Frost Over The
World and interviewed by David Frost in which Qadri stated that the "purpose of his life is to bring peace and
harmony in the world".
[35] 
Furthermore, the US State Department declared the Fatwa to be a significant publication
which takes back Islam from terrorists.
[36]
Qadri was quoted in the American Foreign Policy magazine stating: "I am trying to bring [the terrorists] back
towards humanism. This is a jihad against brutality, to bring them back towards normality. This is an intellectual
jihad."
[37]
In August 2010 Qadri held the first anti-terrorism camp for Muslim youth at the University of Warwick with the aim
of tackling extremism in the UK.
[38] 
The camp was organised by his organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran UK
[39] 
which has
established 572 schools, a number of colleges and a chartered university.
[40]
Global Peace and Unity
Qadri at the Global Peace and Unity Conference,
23 October 2010
On 24 October 2010, Qadri was invited to deliver a speech entitled
"Jihad: Perception and reality" to a gathering of thousands of British
Muslims at the largest European multicultural gathering, the Global
Peace and Unity event.
[41] 
Qadri stated in his speech: "Let me make it
very clear and sound, let me remove any ambiguity that no leader or a
group has any authority to declare jihad. If any leader or a group does
that, it is terrorism and not jihad." He added: "it is solely the
prerogative of a state authority to declare jihad and only as a matter of
last resort when diplomacy and all other efforts to make peace have
failed."
[42]

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US Institute of Peace
On 10 November 2010, Qadri delivered a lecture on "Islamic Concept of Jihad" at the US Institute of Peace, a
prestigious think-tank.
[43] 
The audience comprised senior scholars, doctors, professors, engineers, policy makers and
opinion leaders etc.
[44]
World Economic Forum
Qadri at the World Economic Forum in Davos in
January 2011
In January 2011, Qadri was invited to speak at the World Economic
Forum in Davos on the topic of "The Reality of Terrorism".
[45]
U.S. Islamic World Forum
In April 2011, Qadri was invited to speak at the U.S. - Islamic World
Forum which was jointly organized by the Brookings Institution, Qatar
Government and the OIC, where he spoke on issues such as integration
and identity, the impact of media and politics, security and
counter-terrorism, the treatment of minorities, and interfaith
relations.
[46][47][48]
Lecture on Terrorism & Integration at the Parliament of New South Wales, Australia
In July 2011, he gave a lecture on the issues of terrorism and integration at the Parliament of New South Wales in
Sydney, Australia where he was invited by the member of the NSW Legislative Council, the Hon. Shaoquett
Moselmane MLC.
[49] 
The audience at the lecture comprised members of the NSW Legislative Council, ministers,
politicians, policy makers, senior scholars and religious leaders, etc.
[50] 
On 19 July 2011 Qadri appeared on NEWS
LINE Australia Network where he discussed terrorism and possible troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
[51] 
On 23
July 2011, Qadri appeared on SBS ONE TV and cautioned Western governments about their "aid and anti-terror
funding"
[52]
Peace for Humanity Conference
Qadri at the Peace for Humanity Conference, 24
September 2011
On 24 September 2011, Minhaj-ul-Quran convened the "Peace for
Humanity Conference" at Wembley Arena in London where
Tahir-ul-Qadri and the assembled speakers issued a declaration of
peace on behalf of religious representatives of several faiths, scholars,
politicians, and 12,000 participants present from various countries.
This conference was endorsed by, or received supportive messages
from, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, Ban Ki-Moon
(Secretary General of the United Nations), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
(Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation), David
Cameron (British Prime Minister), Nick Clegg (British Deputy Prime
Minister), Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury) and
others.
[53][54]

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