Obaidullah Sindhi

His birth name was Buta Singh Uppal; he was born on 10 March 1872 in a Khatri Uppal Sikh family at Sialkot, and his father died four months before his birth ¹. The Arabic article agrees on 10 March 1872 and pairs the year with 1289 AH, and records his conversion to Islam at the age of fifteen ². The Urdu article's own birth section pairs 12 Muharram 1289 with the same day, 10 March 1872, although its lead gives 22 March 1872 — the museum's data record marks the day debated and follows the agreement of the English, Arabic and structured sources ³.

After his conversion he migrated to Sindh and then studied at Darul Uloom Deoband; the Arabic article summarises his learning: he received knowledge at the hands of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and Mahmud Hasan Deobandi ². In Delhi he taught at a school and became a lifetime member of Jamia Millia Islamia on a meagre salary ¹. When the Silk Letter movement was launched, he joined it, and in 1915 he left for Kabul, where on 1 December 1915 he became home minister of the Provisional Government of India ¹. He spent about seven years in Afghanistan ¹, then went to Russia, studying socialism for seven months, and carried the movement's network abroad ².

In Istanbul between 1923 and 1925 he drafted the 'Charter of the Independence of India', and from about 1927 to 1941 he lived in the Hijaz, studying the works of Shah Waliullah ¹. He opposed the scheme to partition India, arguing that Muslims and non-Muslims formed one nation ¹. He returned to India and was presented at a grand ceremony at Delhi's Jamia mosque ¹.

The texts attest his Deoband affiliation directly: the English article places him among the leaders of the Deoband School ¹, and the Arabic article calls him one of the leaders of the Deobandi school ². The legal school is named only in structured fields — the English article's infobox gives denomination Sunni, jurisprudence Hanafi and creed Maturidi ¹, and the Arabic article's infobox gives his madhhab as Hanafi ² — while the Urdu article names no school in text and carries only the Maturidi and Deobandi templates and categories ³, and Wikidata gives Islam only ⁴. Two edition infoboxes are one infobox family under the lane's rule, so the museum's data record sets out the whole configuration in its note and leaves his school unrecorded pending a ruling or a text attestation, one attestation short.

He died on 21 August 1944 at Deen Pur near Khanpur, Rahim Yar Khan district — the Urdu infobox pairs 2 Ramadan 1363 with 22 August, which is why the record marks the day debated ¹³. In 1990 Pakistan's 'Pioneers of Freedom' stamp series honoured him among those who spread the mission of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi ¹, and his autobiography, the Zaati Diary, is preserved ¹.

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