Abul Wafa Sanaullah Amritsari was a British Indian, later Pakistani, Islamic scholar and a leading figure within the Ahl-i Hadith movement who was active in the city of Amritsar, Punjab.
21 Facts About Sanaullah Amritsari
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Sanaullah Amritsari was an alumnus of Mazahir Uloom and the Darul Uloom Deoband.
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Sanaullah Amritsari was a major antagonist of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the early Ahmadiya movement.
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Sanaullah Amritsari served as the general secretary of the All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-i-Hadith from 1906 to 1947 and was the editor of the Ahl-e-Hadees, a weekly magazine.
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Sanaullah Amritsari's ancestors hailed from Doru Shahabad, a town in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Sanaullah Amritsari was born in 1868 in Amritsar, where his father had settled permanently.
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Sanaullah Amritsari received his early education at Madrasa Ta'id al-Islam in Amritsar, and later moved to Wazirabad to study hadith under Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi.
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Sanaullah Amritsari then studied with Syed Nazir Hussain in Delhi.
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Sanaullah Amritsari joined Mazahir Uloom for higher education and thereafter completed his studies at Darul Uloom Deoband, where his teachers included Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.
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Sanaullah Amritsari had joined the Deoband seminary in 1890 to study logic, philosophy and Fiqh.
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Sanaullah Amritsari subsequently attended the lectures of Ahmad Hasan at the Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam, in Kanpur.
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Sanaullah Amritsari then became the director of education at the Madrasa Islamiyyah in Maler Kotla.
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Sanaullah Amritsari subsequently stepped into polemics and began debating the proponents of Arya Samaj and specially Ahmadism.
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Sanaullah Amritsari established Ahl-e-Hadith Press in 1903 and published a weekly journal Ahl-e-Hadith which continued for about 44 years.
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Sanaullah Amritsari was a leading figure of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement and served as the general secretary of All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-Hadith from 1906 to 1947.
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Sanaullah Amritsari co-founded the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and had a rank of major general in Junud-e-Rabbania.
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Sanaullah Amritsari was given the title Sher-e-Punjab for his services to Islam in Punjab.
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Sanaullah Amritsari migrated to Gujranwala, Pakistan after Partition of India in 1947 and died on 15 March 1948 in Sargodha.
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Sanaullah Amritsari wrote pamphlets and books mostly in the refutation of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
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When Rangila Rasul was written on Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sanaullah Amritsari wrote Muqaddas Rasool as a reply to that book.
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Sanaullah Amritsari wrote the book "Haq Prakash" in answer to Dayananda Saraswati's book "Satyarth Prakash".