Ahmadullah
Shaykh Ahmadullah | |
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শায়খ আহমদুল্লাহ | |
| Other names | আহমদুল্লাহ |
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| Born | 15 December 1981 |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Athari |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith studies, education |
| Notable work(s) | As-Sunnah Foundation |
| Alma mater | Jamia Islamia Daratana Darul Uloom Khulna (Ifta) Darul Uloom Hathazari (Dawra-e-Hadith) Faizul Uloom Hatiya |
| Teachers | Muhammad Nuruddin Saiful Islam Sandwipi Mufti Shahidullah |
| Other names | আহমদুল্লাহ |
| Occupation | Faqih, academic |
| Senior posting | |
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| Website | ahmadullah |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Aḥmadullāh أحمد الله |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn Muḥammad Dilāwar Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān Aḥmad بن محمد دلاور حسين بن سلطان أحمد |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Bashikfūrī البشكفوري an-Nawākhālawī النواخالوي |
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Shaykh Aḥmadullāh ibn Dilāwar Ḥusayn ibn Sulṭān Aḥmad al-Bashikfūrī (Arabic: شيخ أحمد الله بن دلاور حسين بن سلطان أحمد البشكفوري, Bengali: শায়খ আহমদুল্লাহ বশিকপুরী; born 15 December 1981) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, author, presenter and lecturer. He is the founder of As-Sunnah Foundation charity organisation. His books have been distributed over 300,000 times. Aḥmadullāh is currently the khatib of Bhumipallī Jāmeʿ Masjid in Narāyanganj and chairman of Madrasatus Sunnah.
Early life and family[edit]
Aḥmadullāh was born as Aḥmad Ḥusayn on 15 December 1981, to a Bengālī Muslim family in the village of Bashikpur in Lakshmīpur, Noākhālī District, Banglādesh. Bashikpūr is known as ʿUlamā-e-Kerāmer Gāon and is home to many Deoband graduates, most notably Khalīfah-e-Thānvī Mawlānā ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Janābwālā Sahib. Aḥmadullāh was the second child of the four sons and two daughters of businessman Muḥammad Dilāwar Ḥusayn. His father was one of the sevens sons of Mawlānā Sulṭān Aḥmad Bashikpūrī, who was a graduate of Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband.
Shaykh Aḥmadullāh married at the age of 23, and has one daughter and three sons (all of whom are huffaz-e-quran).
Education[edit]
Aḥmadullāh studied at Bashikpūr Primary School up until class three. His father then took him to the Dānāpūr Madrasah, a qawmī institution in Harinarāyanpūr, Maijdee, which was founded by the owner of Dārā Miyān Hotel. He studied the first three jamāʿāt of Nūrānī in Dānāpūr Madrasah. Shaykh Ahmadullah then studied at the Urdūkhānā of Chandraganj Boāliā Madrasah for one year. After that, he joined the Faiz al-ʿUlūm Madrasah in Hātiyā Island and directly studied Mīzān and Naḥw Mīr under Muftī Ṣaiful Islām Sandwīpī. The Muftī changed his named from Aḥmad Ḥusayn to Aḥmadullāh. They managed to survive during the cyclone in 1988 which devastated Hātiyā. He stayed for a month at a madrasa in Fenī.
Aḥmadullāh then enrolled at the most prestigious qawmī institution, al-Jāmiʿah al-Ahliyyah Dār al-ʿUlūm Muʿīn al-Islām Hāthazārī. His neighbour in Hāthazārī was Muftī Shāhidullāh, and so Shaykh Aḥmadullāh had the honour of serving the Muftī as a personal khādim. Aḥmadullāh studied Nafḥah al-ʿArab and Al-Hidāyah under him. Aḥmadullāh completed examinations of Wifāq al-Madāris al-ʿArabiyyah Banglādesh from al-Jāmiʿah al-Islāmiyyah Darātānā Madrasah in Jessore. He got the tenth place in his Sharḥ-e-Wiqāyah/Thanawiyyah (HSC), third place in his Fazīlat/Mishkāt, and second place in the Dawrah-e-Ḥadīth (2001) examinations. His roommate in Hāthazārī was Zakariyyā ʿAbdullāh (teacher at Markaz ad-Daʿwah al-Islāmiyyah), who was one jamāʿah ahead of him and a classmate of Anas al-Madanī (son of al-Amīr ash-Shaykh al-Ḥadīth Shāh Aḥmad Shafīʿ). After graduating from Hāthazārī in 2001, Shaykh Aḥmadullāh completed his iftā from al-Jāmiʿah al-Islāmiyyah al-ʿArabiyyah Dār al-ʿUlūm Khulnā.
Career[edit]
After completing his education in 2003, Mawlānā Muḥammad Salmān employed Shaykh Aḥmadullāh as a teacher at his Dār ar-Rashad Madrasah for elders in Mīrpūr, Dhākā. From his first meeting, Shaykh Aḥmadullāh was appointed as Nāzim-e-Dār-ul-Iqāmah (Hostel Superintendent). He taught there until 2009, although between that time he spent one year teaching Ḥadīth at the Arzābād Madrasah alongside Rezāul Karīm Islāmābādī. From 2004 to 2009, he was also the imām and khaṭīb of Bayt al-Falāḥ Jāmeʿ Masjid.
In 2009, he was invited to the Middle East due to his proficiency in the ʿArabic language. He served as a dāʿī (preacher) and translator at the West Dammām Islāmic Daʿwah Centre in Saʿudī ʿArabia for ten years, returning in 2018. He was a TV presenter in Peace TV Bangla. He has also participated in international programmes in Japan, India and the United ʿArab Emirātes.
During the Coronavirus pandemic and now, his As-Sunnah Foundation has been widely discussed and praised for its timely initiatives. His writings are often published in the leading media of Banglādesh. It was inspired by As-Sunnah Trust which was founded by late Dr. Khandakār Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh Jahāngīr. Also wrote hundreds of articles on various subjects. Many of his writings have also been published in Arabic.
Authorship[edit]
- Rasūlullāh (Sallallāhu ʿAlayhi Wa Sallam)-er Shakāl Shandhār Duʿā O Zikr
- Pānch Waqt Farz Salāt Parabartī Duʿā O Zikr
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