Muhammad Talha Kandhlawi (28 May 1941 – 12 August 2019) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Sufi who served as the president of the advisory committee of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed and its secretary. He was the only son of Zakariyya Kandhlawi.[3]
He completed the memorization of the Quran in 1956. He received his primary education from Urdu, Persian to Arabic forth jointly in Hazrat Nizamuddin and Saharanpur.[6][7]
In March 1962 (Shawwal 1381 AH), he was officially admitted to Jamia Mazahir Uloom for the first time, where he studied Sharh Jami, the first two volumes of Al-Hidayah, Mishkat al-Masabih, and other texts for one year. Afterward, he returned to Delhi and completed the remainder of his education there. He graduated in Shaban 1384 AH (December 1964) after completing the year of Hadith (Daura-e-Hadith). During this time, he studied Sahih al-Bukhari with Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi, Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar with Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalwi, and other hadith books of the final year with Izharul Hasan Kandhlawi, Obaidullah Balyawi, and Yaqub Saharanpuri.[8][9]
He pledged allegiance to Abdul Qadir Raipuri on his father's orders. Then, after the death of Raipuri in 1962, he gave himself to the spiritual training of his father, Zakariyya Kandhlawi. In 1393 AH, his father allowed him to pledge allegiance in the presence of Mahmud Hasan Gangohi and Munawwar Hussain Bihari.[10][11]
Personal life
In 1961, Kandhlawi was married to Najma Khatun, daughter of Iftikhar-ul-Hasan Kandhlawi, with whom he had no children and died on 18 June 2018 at Anand Hospital, Meerut.[12][13]
Career
On 10 August 1982, Kandhlawi was elected as a member of the advisory committee (majlis-e-shura) of Mazahir Uloom, Saharanpur.[14][15]
On March 5, 1985, the advisory committee of Mazahir Uloom elected him as the Secretary of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed, from which position he formally resigned on May 12, 1993.[16][15][17]
On June 28, 1999, the Advisory Committee of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed elected him as the patron of the committee, which he patronized until his death.[18]
He played an important role in the movement for the establishment of Islamic schools (kuttāb) to teach the fundamentals of religion to Muslim children from village to village, city to city.[23]
Death
Kandhlawi died on August 12, 2019 (Dhul Hijjah 10, 1440 AH) in Anand Hospital, Meerut.[24][25][26][27] His funeral prayer was offered by Arshad Madani in Saharanpur, where he was buried in his ancestral Haji Shah Cemetery.[28][29]
An inscription on the grave of Muhammad Talha Kandhlawi
^Saharanpuri, Muhammad Shahid (2005). Ulama e Mazahir Uloom aur unki Ilmi wa tasnīfi khidmāt [Islamic scholars of Mazahir Uloom and their academic and literary services] (in Urdu). Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Saharanpur: Maktaba Yādgār-e-Shaykh. p. 379.
^Mubarakpuri, Arif Jameel (2021). Mausoo'a Ulama-u- Deoband [The Encyclopedia of Deobandi Scholars] (in Arabic) (1st ed.). Deoband: Shaikhul Hind Academy. pp. 386–387.
