Shortest Chain of Today

By Shaykh Uwais Namazi

Sheikh Ahmad ʿAlī Diwān Lājpūrī (1919-2011)

This obituary was inspired by Dr. Akram Nadwī’s speech at Masjid al-Falah (Leicester) on Saturday 12 March 2011, a day after the Sheikh’s funeral. His Urdu speech can be downloaded from here: bit.ly/k6S1am

 

[I relate to] Shaykh Aḥmed ʿAlī al-Lājpūrī as-Sūrtī –

ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Amrohī –

Faḍl ar-Raḥmān ibn Ahl Allāh aṣ-Ṣiddīqī –

ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Aḥmed ibn ʿAbd ar-Rahīm ad-Dehlavī (a.k.a Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz) –

from his father: Shāh Walī Allāh –

Abū Ṭāhir al-Kurdī –

Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī –

Ṣafī ad-Dīn Aḥmad al-Qushāshī –

Aḥmad ash-Shinnāwī –

Shams ad-Dīn Muḥammad ar-Ramlī –

Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī –

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī –

al-Buhrān Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm at-Tannūkhī –

Abū al- ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥajjār –

Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mubārak az-Zabīdī –

Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿIsā al-Harawī as-Sijzī –

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar ad-Dāwūdī al-Būshanjī –

Aḥmad ibn Ḥamūyah as-Sarakhsī –

Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar al-Firabrī –

Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī –

Ismāʿīl ibn ‘Abī ‘Uways –

Mālik ibn ‘Anas –

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah –

his father: ʿUrwat ibn az-Zubayr –

ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ:

I heard the Prophet, peace and blessing be upon him, say: “Allah will not extract knowledge from His slaves but will expel knowledge by uplifting Scholars [from this world] until there will be none left, in which case people will take the ignorant as their leaders. People will consult these ignorant leaders and they will advise without proper knowledge. They are misguided and misguide others.”