Ibrahim Mir Explained

Religion:Islam
Ibrahim Mir
Native Name:ابراہیم میر
Native Name Lang:Urdu
Native Name Lang:Urdu
Birth Date:1874
Birth Place:Sialkot, Punjab Province, British India
Movement:Salafism
Death Place:Sialkot, West Pakistan, Pakistan
Relatives:Sajid Mir
Denomination:Sunni

Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti (ur|{{nq|محمد ابراہیم میر سیالکوٹی; 12 January 1956) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar of the Ahl-i Hadith. He was a muhaddith, khatib, historian, journalist, writer, religious activist and activist of the Pakistan Movement.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

He was also an expert on (Quranic exegesis) and (jurist in jurisprudence) and wrote several books.[9] Mir is considered one of the partisans of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and Sanaullah Amritsari. In 1945, a party called Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam was formed. Shabbir Ahmad Usmani was its president and Mir was its vice president. Its first meeting was held in Calcutta. Usmani could not attend due to illness then the meeting was chaired by Mir.[10] [11] [12]

Mir was also a major antagonist of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the early Ahmadiyya movement and wrote several books rejecting Qadiyanism.[13] [14] Mir was one of the founding members of All-India Muslim League.[15]

Biography

Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti was born in 1874 in a religious family of British India's Sialkot. He studied the Quran at home and passed Matric exams in 1895 from Mission High school Gandam Mandi Sialkot. In 1895, after completing his Matric Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti took admission in Sialkot's Murree College where he was a class fellow of British Indian great Urdu poet Allama Iqbal, the Poet of the East and National Poet of Pakistan.

Mir Sialkoti learnt Hadith from Syed Nazeer Husain Dehlavi. Sialkoti knew Arabic and Persian as well.

Works

Sialkoti has written more than twenty books. Most of them are in Urdu language, some of those are:

Death

Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti died on 12 January 1956 AD, 25 Jumada al-awwal 1375 AH in Sialkot. His Funeral prayers were offered by Abdullah Ropari and he was buried in Sialkot.[16] [17]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Allamah Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti .
  2. Web site: مولانا محمد ابراہیم میر سیالکوٹی رحمہ اللہ اور تحریکِ پاکستان.
  3. Book: 40 Ahl-e Hadith Scholars from the Indian Subcontinent . 2019-07-18 . Independently Published . 978-1-0810-0895-6 . 224–250 . en.
  4. Role of Ahl-i Hadith scholar in Tehreek-e-Pakistan page 379
  5. Book: Rieck, Andreas . The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority . 2016-01-15 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-061320-4 . 56 . en.
  6. Khan . Bashir Ahmad . 2000 . From "Wahabi" to "Ahl-I-Adith": A Historical Analysis . Proceedings of the Indian History Congress . 61 . 747–760 . 2249-1937 . 44148150.
  7. Book: Ẓahīr, Iḥsān Ilāhī . Qadiyaniat: An Analytical Survey . 1984 . Idara Tarjuman al-Sunnah . 307 . en.
  8. Book: Public life in Muslim India, 1850-1947 : a compendium of basic information on political, social, religious, cultural and educational organizations active in pre-partition India . 1992 . Vanguard . Aziz, Khursheed Kamal. . 969-402-119-7 . Lahore . 126 . 29422250.
  9. 40 Ahl-e Hadith Scholars from the Indian Subcontinent, p 224-225
  10. Role of Ahl-i Hadith scholar in Tehreek-e-Pakistan page 387, 394
  11. 40 Ahl-e Hadith Scholars from the Indian Subcontinent, p 229-231
  12. Qafila Hadees, Urdu, page 110-111
  13. Role of Ahl-i Hadith scholar in Tehreek-e-Pakistan page 380
  14. Tahreek Khatam Nabuwat Volume 23 page 541 to 543
  15. Role of Ahl-i Hadith scholar in Tehreek-e-Pakistan page 391
  16. Role of Ahl-i Hadith scholar in Tehreek-e-Pakistan page 395
  17. 40 Ahl-e Hadith Scholars from the Indian Subcontinent, p 235