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Shah Waliullah Dehlawi

شاه ولي الله الدهلوي

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Shah Waliullah al-Dahlawi, the eighteenth-century hadith scholar and renewer of India, author of Hujjat Allah al-Baligha; he died in 1762 and his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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muhaddith
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The Gunpowder Empires
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South Asia
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1700172517501775180018251850 c.
The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti · Abd Allah al-Sharqawi · Abdul Kader Kane · Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori · Abdulaziz ibn Muhammad Al Saud

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Shah Rafiuddin Dehlawi

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Shah Rafiuddin Dehlawi

Sources

  • Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012)
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Shah Rafiuddin Dehlawi

Shah Rafiuddin Dehlawi (1163/1750 – 1233/1818) was a Delhi hadith scholar and Qur'an commentator, a son of Shah Waliullah al-Dihlawi and younger brother of Shah Abdul Aziz. In 1200 AH he completed the first literal, word-for-word Urdu translation of the Qur'an; his works include the Tafsir Rafi'i, Daf' al-Batil and Asrar al-Mahabba, and in his brother's old age he succeeded to the teaching seat of the Madrasa Rahimia.