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{{short description|Indian Islamic scholar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|name = Imāmuddīn Punjabi
|birth_place = [[Batala]]
|death_date = 1916
|death_place = [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh|Mau]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British India]]
|founder = [[Jamia Miftahul Uloom]]
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
}}
'''Abu al-Fadhl Imāmuddīn Khān Barāwli Chhachhrī'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=15}}</ref> (commonly known as '''Imamuddin Punjabi''') (died 1916) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Sunni Muslim scholar who established the [[Jamia Miftahul Uloom]].

==Family background==
Imāmuddīn Punjabi's predecessors hailed from the area of Brawl, [[Bajaur District|Bajaur]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=16}}</ref>They had relocated to [[Chhachh]], and then finally settled in the Kāla Noor area of [[Batala]] in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=17}}</ref>

==Biography==
Imāmuddīn Punjabi was born in [[Batala]], a city now in the Indian state of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=14, 16}}</ref> He studied [[hadith|ahādith]] with [[Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri]]<ref name="asir">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=[[Asir Adrawi]]|pages=42-43|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Muallifeen |language=Urdu |edition = 2 April 2016}}</ref> and graduated in the traditional [[dars-e-nizami]] from [[Darul Uloom Deoband]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=27-28}}</ref> After completing his studies from the Deoband seminary, Punjabi pledged allegiance to Fazle Rahmān Ganj Murādābādi in [[Sufism]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=22}}</ref>

Punjabi moved to [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh|Maunath Bhanjan]] in 1298 [[Hijri year|AH]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=33}}</ref> He established [[Jamia Miftahul Uloom]], a known seminary in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name="asir"/>

Punjabi died in 1916 in [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh|Mau]] in the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]].<ref name="asir"/>

==Literary works==
Books include: <ref>{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi|page=68, 71, 76, 79, 82}}</ref>
* ''al-Balāgh al-Mubīn''
* ''Tab'yīn al-Kalām fi daf' il-Khisām''
* ''Masābīh al-Itlā ala al-Tahrīm al-Tawājud wa al-Simā''
* ''Rabī al-Anwār''
* ''Eīdayn ki namāz ka waqt''

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1= Asīr |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Wali-o-Shaykh: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi |trans-title=The scholar and Friend of [[Allah|Allāh]]: Mawlāna Imāmuddīn Punjabi |publisher=Qamr al-Bāri M.Sc. |location=[[Deoria, Uttar Pradesh]] |language=Urdu}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslims]]
[[Category:People from Mau]]
[[Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]
[[Category:Deobandis]]

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