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{{Infobox office holder<br />
|honorific_prefix = Shamsul Ulama, Mawlana<br />
|name = Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad<br />
|birth_date = 1862<br />
|birth_place = [[Nanauta]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death year and age|1930|1862}} <br />
|death_place = [[Nizamabad Junction railway station|Nizamabad railway station]], [[British India]]<br />
|office1= 8th [[List of Mohtamims of Darul Uloom Deoband|Vice Chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband]]<br />
|predecessor1 = Muhammad Munir Nanautavi<br />
|successor1 = Habib al-Rahman<br />
|termstart1 = 1895<br />
|termend1 = 1930<br />
|office2 = [[Grand Mufti]] of [[Hyderabad State]]<br />
|termstart2 = 1922<br />
|termend2 = 1925<br />
|father = [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi]]<br />
|children = [[Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi]]<br />
|relatives = [[Muhammad Salim Qasmi]] (grandson), [[Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi]] (great grandson). <br />
}}<br />
'''Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad''' (also known as '''Muhammad Ahmad Nanautawi''') (1862-1930) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Muslim scholar, [[List of Vice Chancellors of Darul Uloom Deoband|Vice Chancellor]] of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], and [[Grand Mufti]] of the [[Hyderabad State]] from 1922 to 1925.<br />
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==Name and lineage==<br />
His [[Arabic name#Ism|ism]] ([[given name]]) was Muhammad Ahmad. His ''[[nasab]]'' ([[patronymic]]) is: Muhammad Ahmad ibn [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi|Muhammad Qāsim]] ibn Asad Ali ibn Ghulam Shāh ibn Muhammad Bakhsh ibn Alāuddīn ibn Muhammad Fateh ibn Muhammad Mufti ibn Abd al-Samī ibn Muhammad Hāshim.<ref name="sawaneh">{{cite book |last1=Gīlānī |first1=Manāzir Ahsan |authorlink1=Manazir Ahsan Gilani |title=Sawānih Qāsmi |trans-title=Biography of Qāsim|publisher=Maktaba Darul Uloom Deoband |location=[[Deoband]]|volume=1|language=Urdu |page=113}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Ahmad was born in 1862 in [[Nanauta]] to [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi]]. He attended Madrasa Manba-ul-Ulum in Gulauthi and then [[Madrasa Shahi, Moradabad]]. He later returned to [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] where he studied with [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]]. He studied parts of the ''[[Jami` at-Tirmidhi]]'' with [[Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi]] and specialized in [[hadith]] with [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]].<ref name="gail">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAW8GreFqjkC&q=Hafiz+Muhammad+Ahmad&pg=PA27 |accessdate=5 June 2020|title=The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India|isbn=9780231050722|last1=Minault|first1=Gail|year=1982}}</ref><ref name="history">{{cite book |author1=[[Syed Mehboob Rizwi]] |translator=Prof. Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi |title=History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband (Volume 2) |publisher=Idara-e-Ehtemam, [[Darul Uloom Deoband|Dar al-Ulum Deoband]] |page=37-38, 170-174|edition=1981 |url=https://archive.org/download/2VolumeBookOnTheHistoryOfDarAlUlumDeoband/HistoryOfTheDarulUloomDeoband-VolumeTwo1981.pdf |accessdate=9 May 2020}}</ref> He was a disciple of [[Imdadullah Muhajir Makki]].<ref name="tayyabqasmi">{{cite book |last1=Muhammad Tayyib |first1=Qari |authorlink1=Qari Muhammad Tayyib |editor1-last=Bukhari |editor1-first=Akbar Shah |title=50 Misaali Shaksiyaat |trans-title=50 Exemplar personalities |publisher=Maktaba Faiz-ul-Qur'an |location=[[Deoband]] |page=95 |edition=July 1999 |language=Urdu}}</ref><br />
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At [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], he taught ''[[Mishkat al-Masabih]]'', ''[[Tafsir al-Jalalayn]]'', ''[[Sahih Muslim]]'', ''[[Sunan ibn Majah]]'' for ten years, and served as Vice Chancellor for 35 years.<ref name="tayyab">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YjoMCAAAQBAJ&q=hafiz+muhammad+ahmad+deoband&pg=PT355 |accessdate=9 May 2020|title=Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism|isbn=9781611172317|last1=Ernst|first1=Carl W.|last2=Martin|first2=Richard C.|date=27 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="history"/><br />
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Ahmad was honored with the title of Shamsul Ulama by the [[British Raj|British Government of India]],<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQjrAQAAQBAJ&q=hafiz+muhammad+ahmad+deoband&pg=PT24 | title=Husain Ahmad Madani: The Jihad for Islam and India's Freedom| isbn=9781780742106| last1=Metcalf| first1=Barbara| date=December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Deobandi |first1=Syed Muhammad Miyan |translator=Muhammadullah Qasmi |authorlink1=Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi |title=Silk Letters Movement |publisher=Shaikhul Hind Academy |location=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] |pages=70–71 |url=http://www.darululoom-deoband.com/urdu/books/tmp/1388990860%20Silk%20Letter%20Movement.pdf |accessdate=9 May 2020 |language=English |chapter=Differences between Hadhrat Shaikhul Hind and Mohtamims}}</ref> which he returned in 1920.<ref name="ulama" /> He also served [[Grand Mufti]] of [[Hyderabad State]] from 1922 to 1925.<ref name="asir">{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1=Asir |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Tazkirah Mashahir-e-Hind: Karwan-e-Rafta |publisher=Darul Muallifeen |location=[[Deoband]] |page=17 |edition=1st 1994 |language=Urdu}}</ref><ref name="ulama">{{cite book |author1=[[Muhammad Miyan Deobandi]] |title=Ulama-e-Haq awr Unke Mujahidana Kaarname |volume = 1|location = Deoband |publisher=Faisal International|pages=162–163 |language=Urdu |chapter=Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad}}</ref><br />
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==Students==<br />
Ahmad's students include [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]], [[Shabbir Ahmad Usmani]], [[Ubaidullah Sindhi]], [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]], [[Kifayatullah Dehlawi]], [[Sayyid Asghar Hussain Deobandi]], [[Qari Muhammad Tayyib]], [[Muhammad Shafi Deobandi]], [[Manazir Ahsan Gilani]] and [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]].<ref name="aks">{{cite book |author1=Muhammad Shakaib Qasmi |author2=Muhammad Noushad Qasmi |title=Aks-e-Ahmad (Biography of Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad) |publisher=Hujjatul Islam Academy |location=[[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]] |isbn=9788192944135 |pages=71–95 |edition=May 2014 |language=Urdu}}</ref><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
Ahmad died in 1930 while travelling in a train near [[Nizamabad Junction railway station]] and was buried in a special graveyard Khitta-e-Salihin with the consent of [[Mir Osman Ali Khan]].{{efn|Both [[Asir Adrawi|Adrawi]] and [[Syed Mehboob Rizwi|Rizwi]] have stated his year of death as 1347 AH, but differed in calculating it. However, [[Syed Mehboob Rizwi|Rizwi]] maintains the point that Ahmad was appointed VC of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] in 1895, and he served the post for 35 years. Adding the two, makes the calculation go 1930. [[Barbara Metcalf]] states 1928 as death year.}}<ref name="asir"/><ref name="history"/> Ahmad's son [[Qari Muhammad Tayyib]] was Vice Chancellor of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] for fifty years.<ref name="tayyab" /><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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