Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi was an Indian Islamic scholar, and one of the earliest teachers of Islamic Madrassa in Deoband, famously called Darul Uloom Deoband in India.
13 Facts About Yaqub Nanautawi
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Yaqub Nanautawi was the first principal of Darul Uloom Deoband.
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Yaqub Nanautawi's nasab meets Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr.
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Muhammad Yaqub was born in 1833, coinciding 13 Safar 1249 AH in British India, in the town of Nanauta, part of the Saharanpur District of the modern province of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi studied most of the Islamic sciences under his father and Shah Abd al-Ghani Mujaddidi.
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Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi was trained in tasawwuf under Haji Imdadullah and received khilafah from him in the Chishti, Naqshbandi, Qadiri, and Suhrawardi orders.
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In 1852, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi was appointed as a teacher in Government College Ajmer.
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Yaqub Nanautawi was transferred to Banaras, and later promoted to the post of Deputy Inspector, Saharanpur.
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In 1866, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi was appointed as the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband.
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Students of Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi include most of the second-generation Islamic scholars such as Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, Aziz-ur-Rahman Usmani, Sayyid Mumtaz Ali, Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad, Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri and Ashraf Ali Thanwi.
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Yaqub authored Sawaneh Umri Hazrat Maulana Qasim Nanutawi, a biography of Qasim Nanautawi which was translated into Arabic by Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri as Al-Imam Muhammad Qasim An-Nanawtawi Kama Ra'aituhu.
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Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi Nanautavi died of cholera at age 51 in 1884 and was buried in his hometown, Nanauta.
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Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi was maternal uncle of the Hadith scholar Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri.