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|honorific_prefix = Mawlānā<br />
|title = {{small|Sahbān al-Hind}}<br />
|name = Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi<br />
|image = <br />
|caption = <br />
|office1 = 1st General Secretary of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]]<br />
|term_start1 = 1920<br />
|term_end1 = 13 July 1940<br />
|predecessor1 = "office established"<br />
|successor1 = [[Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad]]<br />
|office2 = 5th President of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]]<br />
|term_start2 = 1957<br />
|term_end2 = 4 December 1959<br />
|predecessor2 = [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]]<br />
|successor2 = [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]]<br />
|office3 = 3rd Rector of [[Madrasa Aminia]]<br />
|term_start3 = 1953<br />
|term_end3 = September 1955<br />
|predecessor3 = [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]]<br />
|successor3 = [[Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi]]<br />
|module = {{Infobox religious biography|embed = yes|religion=[[Islam]]<br />
|birth_date = {{birth year|1888}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Daryaganj]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1959|12|04|1888}}<br />
|death_place = [[Delhi]], India<br />
|denomination = [[Sunni]]<br />
|jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]<br />
|movement = [[Deobandi]]<br />
|alma_mater = [[Madrasa Aminia]]<br />
| notable_works = ''Fear of Hell'', ''Key to the Garden of Bliss''<br />
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'''Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi''' (also known as '''Sahbān al-Hind'''; 1888 – 4 December 1959) was an Indian Muslim scholar and [[Indian freedom struggle|freedom struggle activist]] who served as the first general secretary and the fifth president of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]]. He also served as the third rector of [[Madrasa Aminia]] and authored books such as ''Fear of Hell'' and ''Key to the Garden of Bliss''.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi in 1888 in [[Daryaganj]], Delhi.<ref name="early life">{{Citation|author1=Salman Mansoorpuri |title=Tehreek Azadi-e-Hind Mai Muslim Ulama aur Awaam ka Kirdar |page=193}}</ref> He received his primary education from Abdul Majeed Mustafabadi and Muhammad Yasin Sikandarabadi, and memorized the [[Quran]] at Madrasa Hussainia in [[Delhi]].<ref name="early life"/> He entered [[Madrasa Aminia]] in 1328 [[Hijri year|AH]] and graduated in 1336 AH.<ref name="asir1">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=Asir Adrawi|page=20}}</ref> His teachers included [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]].<ref name="early life"/><br />
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Saeed participated in the [[Indian freedom struggle]] and was imprisoned eight times.<ref name="asir2"/> He was arrested in 1921 and jailed in the [[Central Jail Mianwali]] for one year.<ref name="work"/> He was arrested for the last time in 1942 and imprisoned in the jails of [[Delhi]], [[Lahore]], [[Ferozpur]] and [[Multan]].<ref name="work"/> He was among the founders of the [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] (JUH) and was appointed the interim secretary in the meeting of inception in November 1919.<ref name="wasif">{{cite book |last1=Wasif Dehlavi |first1=Hafizur Rahman |author1-link=Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi |title=Jamī'at-i Ulamā par ek tārīk̲h̲ī tabṣirah |page=74|language=ur|oclc=16907808}}</ref> <br />
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Saeed was appointed the first general secretary of the JUH in November 1920, a position he served for twenty years.<ref name="early life"/><ref name="wasif"/> He served as the vice-president of the JUH for seventeen years from 1940 to 1957.<ref name="work">{{Citation|author1=Salman Mansoorpuri |title=Tehreek Azadi-e-Hind Mai Muslim Ulama aur Awaam ka Kirdar |page=194}}</ref> He taught at the Madrasa Aminia and was appointed its rector in 1953 following the death of Kifayatullah Dehlawi.<ref name="early life"/><ref>{{cite book |author1=Muḥammad Qāsim Dehlavi |title=Mawlānā Ḥafīẓurraḥmān Wāsif Dehlavī |page= 24 |date=2011 |publisher=[[Urdu Academy, New Delhi|Urdu Academy]] |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-7121-176-0}}</ref> He served as the president of the JUH for two years from 1957 until his death on 4 December 1959 in Delhi.<ref name="asir2">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=Asir Adrawi|page=21}}</ref><ref name="work"/><br />
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Saeed was seen as an influential speaker.<ref name="asir2"/> He was known as Sahbān al-Hind.<ref name="asir1"/><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
In September 2019, JUH organized a two-days seminar on the life and works of Saeed. It was attended by scholars and poets including [[Akhtarul Wasey]], [[Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi|Gulzar Dehlvi]] and [[Usman Mansoorpuri]].<ref name="siasat">{{cite news |title=جمعیۃ علماء ہند کے زیر اہتمام مولانا عبدالباری فرنگی محلی اور مولانا احمد سعید دہلوی پر دوروزہ سیمینار |trans-title=Two days seminar on Abdul Bari Farangi Mahali and Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi|url=https://urdu.siasat.com/news/%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%DB%8C%DB%83-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1-%DB%81%D9%86%D8%AF-%DA%A9%DB%92-%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%A7%DB%81%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D8%A8-1082368/ |access-date=11 July 2021 |work=The Daily Siasat |date=23 September 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Saeed wrote ''Kashf-ur-Rahman'', an [[exegesis]] of the [[Quran]], in [[Urdu]], in two volumes.<ref name="asir2"/> His other works include:<ref>{{cite web |title=Books by Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50040195/ |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref><br />
* ''Dozakh ka khatka'' (''Fear of Hell'')<br />
* ''Jannat ki Kunji'' (''Key to the Garden of Bliss'')<br />
* ''Jannat ki Zamānat''<br />
* ''Khuda ki baatein''<br />
* ''Rasūlullāh ke tīn sau mo'jizāt'' (''Three Hundred Miracles of [[Muhammad]]'')<br />
* ''Shaukat Āra Begum''<br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Deobandis]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book |author1=Salman Mansoorpuri |title=Tehreek Azadi-e-Hind Mai Muslim Ulama aur Awaam ka Kirdar |date=2014 |publisher=Deeni Kitab Ghar |location=Deoband |pages=194–195 |language=ur}}<br />
* {{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=Asir Adrawi|author-link=Asir Adrawi|pages= 20–21|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Muallifeen |language=ur |edition = 2 |date=April 2016}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Shahjahanpuri |first1=Abu Salman |author1-link=Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri |title=Sahban-ul-Hind Mawlānā Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi: Ek Siyāsi Mutāla |date=2011 |publisher=Farid Book Depot |location=Delhi |language=ur}}<br />
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[[Category:Scholars from Delhi]]<br />
[[Category:Madrasa Aminia alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Founders of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian independence activists]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]<br />
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