Abdur Rahman Barni

Hazrat Abdur Rahman Barni Wali-e-Kamil Barshiyan-Buzurg
আব্দুর রহমান বর্ণী
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Born	1932 Tikarpara, Lauta, Beanibazar, Sylhet District
Died	November 7, 2005(2005-11-07) (aged 72–73) Ayesha Clinic, Bangladesh
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Education	Bahadurpur Alia Madrasah Beanibazar Senior Madrasah Jhingabari Alia Madrasa Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah
Teachers	Harmuzullah Shayda
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Disciple of	Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali

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Hazrat ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Barnī (Bengali: আব্দুর রহমান বর্ণী) was a Bengali Islamic scholar and khalifah of Fultali sahib. He is the founder of Rakhalganj Darul Quran (1957) and a longtime ustadh at the Chandgram Anwarul Uloom.

Early life and education

Abdur Rahman was born in 1932 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Tikarpara in Lauta, Beanibazar, Sylhet District. He was the youngest of the five children of the parhezgar, allah-wala Israb Ali saheb. In 1944, Israb Ali sold his land in Tikarpara and moved with his family to the village of Barni in Barlekha (though they later moved again to Rahmania-Tuka in Barlekha). Abdur Rahman was raised in Barni.

His studies began at home, and he completed his ibtedayi from Bahadurpur Madrasah. After that, he joined the Beanibazar Senior Madrasah where he completed his dakhil certification. He received his alim in 1953 and fazil in 1955 respectively from the renowned Jhingabari Alia Madrasah. He then enrolled at the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah and received his kamil in Hadith studies in 1957. His teacher was Shaykhul Hadith Allamah Hormuz Ullah Shayda.

Spiritual succession

At the age of 21 in 1953, Barni saheb received the ijaazat-e-tareeqat in ilm-e-tasawwuf from his murshid Allamah Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali Saheb Qiblah. Under Fultali's instruction, he did the traditional Chishti chillas. One time in Ghilachhara (Muminchhara) tea garden hill, both of them secluded themselves in chilla. Towards the end, a khadim noticed that Barni saheb became behush and informed Fultali saheb at once. Fultali saheb said that the One made him behush, will grant him hush again. After the end of the chilla, Fultali saheb took of his pagri and put it on Barni and made dua for his maqbuliat.

Career

His career began as an Islamic studies teacher. He founded the Rakhalganj Darul Quran Senior Madrasah in 1957. In 1972, during the Isaal-e-Thawab of Hazrat Yaqub Badarpuri in Alalpur (Kulaura), Raeesul Huffaz Abdul Bari Chandgrami was astounded by Barni saheb's speech and requested someone of his level to join the Chandgram Madrasah. Barni saheb said it will not be possible but Chandgrami Sahib became nachhor-banda and promised to pray for him during tahajjud. With Chandgrami saheb's khaas dua and Fultali saheb's ijaazat, Barni saheb left his position as principal of Rakhalganj Madrasah and became the superintendent of Chandgram Ibtedayi Madrasah. After serving as principal of Chandgram Anwarul Uloom Madrasah, Barni saheb retired.

In 1990, he completed Hajj alongside Allamah Ghulam Husayn Satpuri.

Death and legacy

Abdur Rahman Barni died at 10pm on Tuesday 9 April 2002 after being treated in Ayesha Clinic for twenty days of illness. In his first Isaal-e-Thawaab mahfil, Fultali sahib said Barni Saheb was the maqbul banda of Allah and his maqbuliyat is evident from his simple life, not giving anyone koshto, his waz given with shoor.

Chishtī (Niẓāmī-Fakhrī)

1. Prophet Muḥammad
2. ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
3. Abū Saʿīd Al-Ḥasan ibn Yasār al-Baṣrī
4. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid bin Zayd
5. Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Bishr ibn Masʿūd Abū ʿAlī at-Tamīmī al-Yarbūʿī al-Khurāsānī
6. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Adham al-ʿIjlī
7. Khwājah Sadīd ad-Dīn Ḥudhayfah al-Marʿashī
8. Abū Hubayrah Amīn ad-Dīn al-Baṣrī
9. Khwājah Karīm ad-Dīn Munʿim Mumshād ʿUlū ad-Dīnawarī
10. Abū Isḥāq ash-Shamī al-Chishtī (Chishtī)
11. Abū Aḥmad Abdāl al-Chishtī
12. Abū Muḥammad al-Chishtī
13. Khwājah Nāṣir ad-Dīn Abū Yūsuf ibn Abū Naṣr Samʿān ibn Abū Jaʿfar Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdullāh ʿAlī Akbar ibn Ḥasan Aṣghar ibn ʿAlī an-Naqī ibn Muḥammad at-Taqī ibn ʿAlī ar-Riḍā ibn Mūsā al-Kāẓim ibn Jaʿfar aṣ-Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad al-Bāqir ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbdi Manāf ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghālib ibn Fihr ibn Mālik ibn Naḍr ibn Kinānah ibn Khuzaymah ibn Mudrikah ibn Ilyās ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār ibn Maʿadd ibn ʿAdnān al-Chishtī
14. Quṭb ad-Dīn Mawdūd ibn Abū Yūsuf al-Chishtī
15. Nūr ad-Dīn Quṭb al-Aqṭāb Khwājah-e-Khwājagān Sarkār Ḥājī Sharīf az-Zandanī
16. Abū an-Nūr Khwājah ʿUthmān al-Hārūnī
17. Muʿīn ad-Dīn Ḥasan ibn Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan ibn Najm ad-Dīn Ṭāhir al-Chishtī
18. Quṭb ad-Dīn Bakhtiyār ibn Kamāl ad-Dīn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusām ad-Dīn ibn Rashīd ad-Dīn ibn Raḍī ad-Dīn ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī ar-Riḍā ibn Mūsā al-Kāẓim ibn Jaʿfar aṣ-Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad al-Bāqir ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbdi Manāf ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghālib ibn Fihr ibn Mālik ibn Naḍr ibn Kinānah ibn Khuzaymah ibn Mudrikah ibn Ilyās ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār ibn Maʿadd ibn ʿAdnān al-Ḥusaynī al-Khākī
19. Bābā Farīd ad-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-e-Shakar ibn Jamāl ad-Dīn Sulaymān al-Multānī
20. Khwājah Niẓām ad-Dīn Muḥammad Awliyā' ibn Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badāyūnī ibn Sayyid ʿAlī al-Bukhārī al-Ḥusaynī (Niẓāmī)
21. Naṣīr ad-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥasanī al-Awadhī Chirāgh ad-Dihlawī
22. ʿAllāmah Kamāl ad-Dīn al-Awadhī al-Jishtī
23. Khwājah Sirāj ad-Dīn al-Gujarātī
24. Khwājah ʿIlm ad-Dīn al-Gujarātī
25. Khwājah Maḥmūd Rajan al-Gujarātī
26. Khwājah Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Gujarātī
27. Khwājah Ḥasan Muḥammad an-Nūrī al-Gujarātī
28. Khwājah Shams ad-Dīn Muḥammad al-Gujarātī
29. Quṭb al-Madīnah Khwājah Muḥyī ad-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Madanī
30. Khwājah Shāh Kalīmullāh ibn Nūrullāh ibn Aḥmad aṣ-Ṣiddīqī al-Jahānābādī
31. Quṭb ad-Deccan Khwājah Sayyid Shāh Niẓām ad-Dīn al-Kakūrī al-Aurangābādī
32. Mawlānā Sayyid Fakhr ad-Dīn ibn Niẓām ad-Dīn al-Aurangābādī ad-Dihlawī (Fakhrī)
33. Ghulām Sayyid Quṭb ad-Dīn ibn Fakhr ad-Dīn ad-Dihlawī
34. Sayyid Naṣīr ad-Dīn Kālē-Miyān ibn Ghulām Quṭb ad-Dīn ad-Dihlawī
35. Jamāl Shāh ibn Sayyid Quṭb Shāh ar-Rāmpūrī al-Muṣṭafābādī
36. Mushtāq Shāh ibn Jamāl Shāh ar-Rāmpūrī al-Muṣṭafābādī
37. Ghulām Muḥyī ad-Dīn ar-Rāmpūrī
38. Ṣāḥib Qiblah ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Muftī ʿAbd al-Majīd Chowdhury ibn Hiran ibn Dānish ibn Ṣādiq ibn Ilāhī-Bakhsh ibn Shāh Muḥammad Aʿlā-Bakhsh al-Jalālpūrī al-Fūltalī
39. al-Walī al-Kāmil Barshiyān-Buzurg Hazrat ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Israb ʿAlī at-Tikarpārī al-Barnī

See also

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• Abdur Rahman Hanafi, Pir Saheb Sonakanda Darbar Sharif, Muradnagar, Comilla

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