Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri

Khalil Ahmad Sahranpuri was a Muslim teacher from India. He was a Hanafi, Deobandi, and Sufi teacher. He taught about Islam, hadith, and beliefs of Ahl al-Sunnah. He followed the Ashʿari and Maturidi belief ways.^[1][2] He was also a Sufi teacher of the Chishti way, being a student and a teacher who came to succeed his teacher Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.^[3][4]

His full name was Khalil Ahmad ibn Majid Ali ibn Ahmad Ali ibn Qutb Ali al-Ansari al-Hanafi.^[5]

He was born in the village of Nanoteh, near Saharanpur. He grew up in the town of Ambetha.

He learned from many teachers, including: Muhammad Yaqub Nanotvi, Muhammad Mazhar Nanotvi, Hasan Saharanpuri, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Qayyum Burhanawi, Ahmad Barzanji, Abdul Ghani Mujaddidi, and Imdadullah Muhajir Makki.

Many students learned from him. The closest was Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi. Others include Abdullah Gangohi, Aashiq Ilahi Meerthi, Fakhruddin Ghazi, Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi, Faiz al-Hasan Gangohi, and Muhammad Husayn al-Habashi.

He died on Wednesday, the 16th of Rabiʿ al-Thani, in the year 1346 AH, in Medina. He was buried in Al-Baqi cemetery.^[6]

He wrote many books, including:

• Badhl al-Majhud fi Sharh Abi Dawud
• Al-Muhannad ‘ala al-Mufannad
• Tanshit al-Adhan
• Mitraqat al-Karama
• Hidayat al-Rashid
• Itmam al-Ni‘am

• Abdul Hayy al-Laknawi
• Safi al-Din al-Hindi al-Urmawi

• Siraj al-Din al-Ghaznawi

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2. ↑ كتاب: مباحث في عقائد أهل السنة، المسمى المهند على المفند، تأليف: الشيخ خليل أحمد السهارنفوري، تحقيق: محمد بن آدم الكوثري، دار الفتح، 2004م.
3. ↑ Cite error: The named reference jamiat was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
4. ↑ Özşenel, Mehmet (1988–2016). "SEHÂRENPÛRÎ, Halîl Ahmed". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies.
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