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Bengali Islamic expert and Pir from Furfura Sharif

Moḥammad Abū Bakr Ṣiddīque (15 Apr – 17 March ) was a BengaliIslamic scholar and illustriousness inaugural Pir of Furfura Sharif in West Bengal.^[2] He even-handed regarded by his followers, who are scattered across eastern Bharat and Bangladesh,^[3] as a mujaddid (reviver) of Islam in influence region, due to his important contributions in religious propagation close the establishment of mosques don madrasas, publication of newspapers current education development in neglected areas.^[5] He was the founding kingpin of the sociopolitical Anjuman-i-Wazin-i-Bangla organisation,^[6] which advocated for causes specified as the Khilafat Movement station Pakistan Movement.^[7] Siddique died brush , and his shrine denunciation greatly venerated as one take in West Bengal's most prominent Mysticism centres.^[9]

Early life and family

Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique was born impersonation 15 April , to grand Bengali Muslim family in loftiness village of Furfura, located pop into Hooghly district.^[11] His father, Hadji Abdul Muqtadir Siddiqui, was spiffy tidy up mawlana. The family was putative to have been descendants apply Abu Bakr, the first Swayer of Islam and a participator of the Banu Taym dynasty, part of the Arab ethnic group of Quraysh.^[12] Their ancestor, Mansur Baghdadi, left Baghdad in goodness Abbasid Caliphate in AH ( CE) and settled in out village now known as Mollapara in Hooghly district, in picture erstwhile Sultanate of Bengal. Mansur's descendant, Haji Mustafa Madani, spoken for absorbed bay'ah along with Emperor Aurangzeb to Masum Sirhindi, the tertiary son of Ahmad Sirhindi. Divers letters of correspondence between Madani and Sirhindi are preserved drag the Maktubat-e-Masumia in Rauza Sharif, Sirhind, and were published induce Abdul Halim Arambagi in sovereignty biography of Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique. In , Emperor Aurangzeb gifted Madani tax-free land meticulous an estate which included a-okay mosque, and the area was named after him as Madanipur (Midnapore).^[13]

Siddique's father died when grace was nine months old, remarkable so he was raised gross his mother, Mohabbat-un-Nesa Begum.^[13]

Education

His schooldays education started at home acidity After learning basic Islamic bearing, he enrolled in a adjoining primary school and intended simulation begin teaching non-islamic subjects as well as English. One night as uncluttered child, he dreamed that prestige Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was advising him to abandon that teaching. He then left that education and joined Sitapur Madrassah, an ancient educational institution (established in ) near Furfura. Back completing his primary education anent, he took first place imprint the then highest Jamaat-e-Ula slaughter from Mohsinia Madrasa in Hooghly city.^[15]

Then went to Calcutta be elastic and enrolled in Jamaluddin Bringing-up Center in the then Sinduria Patti Masjid (now Kalutla, Kolkata). There, Hafez studied Hadith, Tafsir and Fiqh under Jamaluddin Mungeri. Hafez Jamal Uddin was magnanimity caliph of Syed Ahmad Barelvi.^[18][19] He then studied Hikmah favour philosophy under Nazar Shah Belayati from Firangi Mahal.^[20][15] He stayed at the Nakhoda Mosque from the past studying with Belayati.

After completing queen formal education, he researched diversified aspects of Islam for 18 years.^[23] During this time no problem established his own library, neighbourhood there were many rare books. The library is currently faithful to the Furfura title madrasah he founded.^[25] In he voyage to Mecca and Medina. Alongside his stay in Medina, soil obtained the certificate of 40 Hadith books from the Muhaddith Syed Mohammad Amin Ibn Ahmad.^[26][28]

Contribution to education

He established madrassahs build up mosques.^[7] The Madrassahs he mighty in his village became lone of India's leading educational institutions, and even Haji Shariatullah, grandeur founder of the Faraizi bad mood in East Bengal, came industrial action this village to learn Semitic and Persian.^[3] He was unembellished member of the managing council of Calcutta Alia Madrassah constant worry

Hadith studies

M. Obaidul (–), topmost of Feni Alia Madrassah buy Bangladesh, said about him,

"ইলমে জাহের ব্যতীত আল্লাহ তাকে ইলমে লাদুন্নিও (আল্লাহ প্রদত্ত বিশেষ জ্ঞান) প্রদান করেছিলেন। তিনি ফলে কুরআন, হাদিস ও ফিকহের, ও ইসলামের মারেফতি শিক্ষার গভীরে জ্ঞান অর্জন করেছিলেন। বিশেষ করে তিনি হাদিস শাস্ত্রে অভূতপূর্ব জ্ঞান অর্জন করেছিলেন, যার জ্ঞান সারা উপমহাদেশে ছড়িয়ে পরেছে।

In addition to ilme jahr, Allah also bestowed upon him ilme ladunni (special knowledge open by God). He consequently plagiaristic profound knowledge of the Qur'an, hadith and jurisprudence, and magnanimity teachings of Islam. In quite, he acquired an unprecedented nurse of hadith, the knowledge wages which spread throughout the subcontinent.

—&#;M. Obaidul, From a curriculum vitae of Abu Bakr Siddique^[29]

During tiara lifetime there was no culture of Hadith in Alia Madrassah. He introduced this system, illustriousness practice of this system under way in by teaching hadith cloudless Kolkata Ghaspatti Mosque.^[30] Shamsul Ulema Shah Safiullah was appointed stop this mosque to teach sunna on a salary of 20 rupees.^[31] He himself used next teach hadith in this mosque.^[32]

He acquired special erudition on sunna scriptures, his nephew Abu Jafar Siddique obtained the certificate treat 20 hadith books from him. Maulana Mansoor Hussain, one entity his relatives of Furfura townsperson, received from him the maxim and attestation of the sunnah book Musnad Abu Hanifa. Besides many scholars learned hadith unearth him.

Spiritual experience

Abu Bakr Siddique imbibed two methods of attaining proximity to Allah namely jizba come to rest suluk. Much is said have a view of his spiritual state during top student days at the Hooghly Madrassah, a four-way connection refined his heart most nights. Just as this connection was associated clank the Tariqa, he would by choice chant that Tariqa. Also several times his apada-masat would enter covered by a light enjoin his self-forgetfulness would occur.^[34]

He was a khalifah of Fateh Calif Waisi.^[35]

Influence

At the end of goodness 19th century, when the excess of the Faraizi and Tariqa-e-Muhammadiyah movements subsided, the Muslims were also somewhat weak.^[34] There were many divisions among the Muslims, Abu Bakr was worried like that which the Muslims adopted different religions in different places. He was determined to work for rectitude unity of the Ummah, skull tried to eliminate shirk, Bid'ah, superstition etc. from the deuce Bengals. Among the scholars who helped him in this toil were Shamsul Ulama Ghulam Salmani (–), Allama Lutfur Rahman Burdwani (d. ), Allama Ishaq Burdwani (d. ), Belayat Hussain Birbhumi (), Abdul Wahid Chatgami (d. ), Muhammad Mangalkoti Burdwani (d. ) is notable.^[38][39] Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri and Karamat Ali Jaunpuri also helped in spreading diverse ahadith. Both of them were influential writers.^[42]

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