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|name = Abdul Khaliq Sambhali<br />
|honorific_prefix = Mawlānā<br />
|office1= Vice-Rector of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] <br />
|term_start1= 2008<br />
|term_end1= 30 July 2021<br />
|predecessor1 = <br />
|successor1= <br />
|module = {{Infobox religious biography|embed = yes|religion=Islam<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1950|1|4|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Sambhal]], [[Dominion of India|India]]<br />
|death_date = {{date of death and age|2021|7|30|1950|1|4|df=y}}<br />
|death_place = [[Muzaffarnagar]], India<br />
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]<br />
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'''Abdul Khaliq Sambhali''' (4 January 1950 – 30 July 2021) was an Indian Muslim scholar and litterateur who served as the vice-[[Rector (academia)|rector]] of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. He was an alumnus of the Deoband seminary and had studied with scholars including [[Mahmud Hasan Gangohi]], [[Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi]] and [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]]. He translated [[Abdul Majeed al-Zindani]]'s ''Al-Tawḥīd'' into [[Urdu]] and gave religious discourses criticizing the [[Maududi]]sm.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Abdul Khaliq Sambhali was born on 4 January 1950 in [[Sambhal]].<ref name="baseerat">{{cite news |title=دارالعلوم دیوبند کے نائب مہتمم مولانا عبدالخالق سنبھلی کا انتقال |trans-title= The vice-rector of Darul Uloom Deoband, Mawlānā Abdul Khaliq Sambhali passes away |url=https://www.baseeratonline.com/152272 |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=Baseerat Online |date=30 July 2021}}</ref> He was schooled at the Madrasa Khair al-Madaris and Madrasa Shamsul Uloom in Sambhal. He memorized the [[Quran]] under the tutelage of Hafiz Farīduddīn.<ref name="millat">{{cite news |title=دارالعلوم دیوبند کے استاذ حدیث مولانا عبدالخالق سنبھلی کا طویل علالت کے بعد انتقال، علمی حلقہ سوگوار |trans-title=Mawlānā Abdul Khaliq Sambhali passes away|url=https://urdu.millattimes.com/archives/72967 |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=Millat Times |date=30 July 2021 |language=ur}}</ref> He went to [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] in 1968,<ref name="baseerat"/> and graduated in the [[Dars-e-Nizami]] course in 1972. He specialized in Arabic literature in 1973.{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2020|p=689}} His teachers included [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]], [[Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi]] and [[Mahmud Hasan Gangohi]].<ref name="millat"/><br />
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Sambhali began teaching the [[Islamic sciences]] at Madrasa Khadim al-Islam in [[Hapur]] in 1973, and then taught at the Madrasa Jami' al-Huda in [[Moradabad]] during 1979.{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2020|p=689}} He was appointed a teacher at the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1982.<ref name="baseerat"/> In 2008, he was appointed the vice-rector of the seminary.{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2020|p=689}} He was a litterateur of [[Arabic]] and [[Urdu]], and taught books of [[hadith]] such as the ''[[Sunan ibn Majah]]'' at the Deoband seminary.<ref name="khabr"/><ref name="Qindeel">{{cite news |last1=Talha |first1=Muhammad Abu |title=خدا یاد آئے جنھیں دیکھ کر: حضرت استاد محترم مولانا عبد الخالق سنبھلی |url=https://qindeelonline.com/khuda-yad-aaye-jinhen-dekh-kar/ |work=Qindeel Online |date=31 July 2021}}</ref> He also gave discourses on the Poems of [[Al-Mutanabbi]], the ''Dīwan-e-Mutanabbi'', which was considered famous in the seminary.<ref name="Qindeel"/> His students included [[Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi]].<ref name="chenab"/> <br />
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In an interview that Sambhali gave to the [[Deccan Herald]] in May 2009, he was reported saying that, "We are not against education of girls, but we are against co-education." He was asked about the [[Taliban]] closing the schools of girls.<ref>{{cite interview |title=Muslim politicians have lost bond with the community |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/2400/muslim-politicians-have-lost-bond.html |access-date=1 August 2021 |work=Deccan Herald |date=14 May 2009}}</ref> In 2017, he said about the Indian government's [[Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019|ban on Triple Talaq]] that, "no one had a right to change the commandments of [[Shariah]]."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Swati |title=We stand by Muslim Personal Law Board on ‘triple talaq’: Darul Uloom Deoband |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/india/stand-muslim-personal-law-board-triple-talaq-darul-uloom-deoband-1502457057.html |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=The Statesman |date=22 August 2017}}</ref> He translated [[Abdul Majeed al-Zindani]]'s book ''Al-Tawḥīd'' ({{trans|''Monotheism''}}) into [[Urdu]].{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2020|p=689}} His discourses on the criticism of [[Maududi]]sm have been published from the Deoband seminary in several volumes.{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2020|p=689}}<br />
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Sambhali died on 30 July 2021 in [[Muzaffarnagar]].<ref name="chenab">{{cite news |title=Darul Uloom Deoband's vice-rector passes away |url=https://thechenabtimes.com/2021/07/30/darul-uloom-deobands-vice-rector-passes-away/ |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=The Chenab Times |date=30 July 2021}}</ref> He was buried in the [[Qasmi cemetery]] in Deoband.<ref name="khabr">{{cite news |title=دارالعلوم دیوبند کے نائب مہتمم مولانا عبدالخالق سنبھلی کا انتقال |trans-title=The vice-rector of Deoband seminary, Maulana Abdul Khaliq Sambhali passes away|url=https://www.roznamakhabrein.com/maulana-abdul-khaliq-sanbhali-deputy-superintendent-of-darul-uloom-deoband-passed-away/ |access-date=31 July 2021 |work=Roznama Khabrein |date=30 July 2021 |language=ur}}</ref> [[Abul Qasim Nomani]], [[Arshad Madani]], [[Mahmood Madani]] and [[Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi]] expressed grief over his death.<ref name="jagran">{{cite news |last1=Bhatt |first1=Prem Dutt |title=दारुल उलूम के नायब मोहतमिम मौलाना अब्दुल खालिक संभली का निधन, लंबे समय से थे बीमार |trans-title=Vice-rector of Darul Uloom Deoband, Mawlānā Abdul Khāliq Sambhali passes away|url=https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/meerut-city-darul-ulooms-naib-mohtamim-maulana-abdul-khaliq-sambhali-passed-away-was-ill-for-a-long-time-21880040.html |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=Jagran |date=30 July 2021 |language=hi}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite book |last1=Qāsmi |first1=Muḥammadullah|title=Darul Uloom Deoband ki Jami' wa Mukhtasar Tārīkh|url=https://archive.org/details/14112019/DARUL_ULOOM_DEOBAND_KI_JAME_O_MUKHTASAR_TAREEKH/mode/1up |publisher=Shaykhul Hind Academy |location=Deoband |date=October 2020 |language=ur}}<br />
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