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{{Short description|Indian Muslim scholar (1850-1912)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Ahmad Hasan Amrohi
|title = Muhaddith Amrohi
|honorific_prefix = Mawlānā
|office1= 1st Principal of [[Madrasa Shahi]]
|term_start1= 1879
|term_end1= 1885
|predecessor1 = "post established"
|successor1= "unknown"
|office2 = 1st Principal of Jamia Islamia Arabia Amroha
|term_start2 =
|term_end2 =
|predecessor2 = "post established"
|successor2 = Abdur Rahman Siddīqi Sandelwi{{Sfn|Fareedi|2009|p=175}}
|module = {{Infobox religious biography|embed = yes
|religion=Islam
|denomination = [[Sunni]]
|jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
|creed = [[Maturidi]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Saharanpuri|first=Khalil Ahmad|title=Mabahith fi 'Aqa'id Ahl al-Sunna|date=2001|publisher=Dar al-Fath|pages=101}}</ref>
|movement = [[Deobandi]]
|birth_date = {{birth year|1850}}
|birth_place = [[Amroha]], [[Moradabad district|Moradabad]], North-Western Provinces
|death_date = {{date of death and age|1912|3|18|1850|df=y}}
|death_place = Amroha, Moradabad, [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], British India
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
|disciple_of = [[Imdadullah Muhajir Makki]]
}}}}

'''Ahmad Hasan Amrohi''' (1850 – 18 March 1912) also known as '''Muhaddith Amrohi''' within the [[Deobandi movement]];<ref name="asir"/> was an Indian Muslim scholar and [[Indian independence movement|freedom struggle activist]] who served as the first principal of [[Madrasa Shahi]] in [[Moradabad]]. He was an alumnus of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] and among the founding members of [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]]'s Thamratut-Tarbiyat. He was an authorized disciple of [[Imdadullah Muhajir Makki]].

==Biography==
Ahmad Hasan was born in 1850 in [[Amroha]], which at that time was part of the [[Moradabad district]].<ref name="asir">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=[[Asir Adrawi]]|pages=19|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Muallifeen |language=Urdu |date = 2 April 2016}}</ref> He received his primary education from Sayyid Rafat Ali, Karim Bakhsh Bakhshi, Muhammad Hussain Jafri, and studied medicine with Amjad Ali Khan.{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=369–370}} He went to [[Meerut]] for higher education, where he studied with [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi]].{{Sfn|Mansoorpuri|2014|p=156}} Nanautawi taught him all the academic sciences and then sent him to [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], from where he graduated in 1290 [[Hijri year|AH]], alongside [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]] and [[Fakhrul Hasan Gangohi]].<ref name="asir"/>{{Sfn|Mansoorpuri|2014|p=156}} Ahmad was an authorized disciple of [[Imdadullah Muhajir Makki]] in [[Sufism]] and was authorized to transmit [[hadith]] by [[Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri]] and Shah Abdul Ghani.{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=369–370}}

After completing his studies, Hasan became the principal of Madrasa Qasmia, an Islamic school established by his teacher Nanautawi in [[Khurja]].{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=371}}<ref>{{cite news |author1=Imdadul Haq Bakhtiyar |title=سید العلماء قاسم ثانی حضرت مولانا سید احمد حسن محدث امروہی: حیات وخدمات |trans-title= Ahmad Hasan Amrohi: Life and contributions|url=https://www.baseeratonline.com/122482 |access-date=20 July 2021 |work=Baseerat Online |date=16 October 2020 |language=ur}}</ref> He then served in the Islamic institutions in [[Delhi]] and [[Sambhal]] as a principal, the institutions being likely Madrasa Abdur-Rab, Delhi; and Madrasa Jama Masjid, Sambhal.{{Sfn|Mansoorpuri|2014|p=156}}{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=371}} He became the principal of [[Madrasa Shahi]] in [[Moradabad]] upon its inception it 1879 (1296 [[Hijri year|AH]]), a post he served until 1885 ([[Dhu al-Qadah]] 1303 AH).{{Sfn|Mansoorpuri|2014|p=156}} Later, he moved to Amroha, where he re-established an old [[madrasah]] in the Jama Masjid,{{efn|This is now known as Madrasa Islamia Amroha or Jamia Islamia Arabia Amroha, and is among the prominent Islamic institutions in India. It was earlier established by [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi]].{{Sfn|Fareedi|2009|p=33}}}} and occupied himself with the teaching responsibilities, and served as the first rector, principal and senior hadith professor.{{Sfn|Mansoorpuri|2014|p=156}}{{Sfn|Rizwi|1981|p=24}}{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=375}} Few years later, the executive council of Darul Uloom Deoband, called him to teach at the seminary. He taught there for just two months and then moved back to Amroha.{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=379–380}} His students included [[Ismail Sambhali]].{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=385}}

Hasan was a member of the executive council of the Darul Uloom Deoband from 1895 to 1912.{{Sfn|Qāsmi|2020|p=564}} He was a founder members of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi's Thamratut-Tarbiyyat.{{Sfn|Mansoorpuri|2014|p=156}} He debated with [[Arya Samaj]] people and was among the prominent Muslim scholars who debated [[Ahmadis]].{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=388, 395}} On 15 June 1909, he debated with Ahmadis in [[Rampur State|Rampur]] alongside [[Sanaullah Amritsari]], and defeated them.{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=397}} His literary works include ''Ifādāt-e-Aḥmadiyyah'', ''Izālatul Waswās'' and ''Al-Ma'lūmāt al-Ilāhiyyah''.<ref name="asir"/> He was a jurist and his religious edicts are found in the libraries of [[Phalauda]] and [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]].<ref name="asir"/>

Hasan died of [[Plague (disease)|plague]] on 18 March 1912 in Amroha, Moradabad.{{Sfn|Mansoorpuri|2014|p=156-157}} His funeral prayers were led by [[Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad]].{{Sfn|Qasmi|1999|p=62}} [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]], [[Habibur Rahman Usmani]] and [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]] expressed grief over his death.{{Sfn|Fareedi|2000|p=416-422}}
== See also ==
* [[List of Deobandis]]

==Notes==
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==References==
===Citations===
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
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* {{cite book |first1=Naseem Ahmad |last1=Fareedi |editor1-last=Deobandi |editor1-first=Nawaz |editor1-link=Nawaz Deobandi |title=Sawaneh Ulama-e-Deoband |publisher=Nawaz Publications |location=[[Deoband]]|volume = 2 |pages=366–430 |date=January 2000 |language=Urdu |chapter=Hadhrat Mawlānā Sayyid Ahmad Hasan Muhaddith Amrohi}}
* {{cite book |last1=Mansoorpuri |first1=Salman |title=Tehreek Azadi-e-Hind Mai Muslim Ulama aur Awaam ka Kirdar |date=2014 |publisher=Deeni Kitab Ghar |location=Deoband |pages=156–157 |language=ur}}
* {{cite book |last1=Qasmi |first1=Muhammad Tayyib |author-link1=Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi |editor1-last=Bukhari |editor1-first=Akbar Shah |title=50 Misaali Shaksiyaat |trans-title=50 Exemplar personalities |publisher=Maktaba Faiz-ul-Qur'an |location=[[Deoband]] |pages=50–633 |date=July 1999 |language=ur}}
* {{cite book |last1=Rizwi |first1=Syed Mehboob |translator=Murtaz Husain F Quraishi |authorlink1=Syed Mehboob Rizwi |title= History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband |volume = 2 |publisher=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] |location=Deoband |date=1981 |pages=23–26}}
* {{cite book |last1= Qāsmi |first1=Muḥammadullah|title=Darul Uloom Deoband ki Jami' wa Mukhtasar Tārīkh |edition=2|publisher=Shaykhul Hind Academy |location=Deoband |pages=564–565 |date=October 2020 |language=ur}}
* {{cite book |last1=Fareedi |first1=Naseem Ahmad |editor1-last=al-Haqq |editor1-first=Muhib |title=Sayyid al-Ulama | trans-title = The Leader of the Scholars|date=2009 |publisher=Jamia Islamia Arabia |location=Amroha |url=https://archive.org/details/Swaneh-Hayat-Syed-ul-Ulama-Maulana-Syed-Ahmad-Hasan-Amrohi-ra |language=ur}}
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