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{{Short description|Indian Islamic scholar (1817–1899)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2021}}
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{{Infobox religious biography
| honorific_prefix = [[A'la Hazrat]]
| name = Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
| image =
| birth_date = 1814
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1899|1817}}
| birth_place = [[Nanauta]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[Company rule in India|British India]]
| death_place = [[Mecca]], [[Hejaz Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| religion = [[Islam]]
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
| creed = [[Maturidi]]
| Sufi_order = [[Chishti]]
| module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes
| serviceyears = 1857
| battles = [[Indian War of Independence]]
*{{small|[[Battle of Shamli]]}} }}
}}

'''Imdadullah Muhajir Makki''' (1817 – 1899)<ref name="Kugle2007">{{cite book |last1=Kugle |first1=Scott Alan |title=Sufis & saints' bodies: mysticism, corporeality, & sacred power in Islam |date=2007 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=978-0807872772}}</ref>{{rp|222}} was an Indian Islamic scholar.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Makki |first1=Imdadullah Muhajir |title=Faisla Haft Masala |date=1999 |publisher=Muslim Kitabwi |pages=21}}</ref> A [[Sufi]] saint who followed the [[Chishti]] order,<ref name="Kugle2007" />{{rp|223}}<ref name="Sagar2013">{{cite journal |last1=Tareen |first1=SherAli |date=2013 |title=FAYSALA-YI HAFT MAS'ALA (A RESOLUTION TO THE SEVEN CONTROVERSIES): Haji Imdadullah's Hermeneutics of Reconciliation |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28002 |journal=SAGAR: South Asia Graduate Research Journal |language=en |volume=21 |hdl=2152/28002 |access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref> his disciples were [[Pir Meher Ali Shah]],[[Muhammad Anwarullah Farooqui]],[[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi|Muhammad Qasim Nanawtawi]], [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]] and [[Ashraf Ali Thanwi]]. In the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], he led the Muslims in Thana Bhawan to fight against the [[British Raj|British]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Nizami |first=Moin Ahmad |title=Imdādullāh "Muhājir," Hājji |date=2018 |work=Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism |pages=308–311 |editor-last=Kassam |editor-first=Zayn R. |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_2001 |access-date=2022-10-15 |series=Encyclopedia of Indian Religions |place=Dordrecht |publisher=Springer Netherlands |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_2001 |isbn=978-94-024-1267-3 |editor2-last=Greenberg |editor2-first=Yudit Kornberg |editor3-last=Bagli |editor3-first=Jehan |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rizvi |first=T. H. |date=1986 |title=Haji Imdadullah of Thana Bhawan : A Brief Survey of His Life and Work (18181899) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44141583 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=47 |pages=489–494 |issn=2249-1937 |jstor=44141583}}</ref><ref>{{TDV Encyclopedia of Islam|title=İMDÂDULLAH TEHÂNEVÎ|last=Faruqi|first=Nisar Ahmad}}</ref> Imdadullah is also referred to by the Persian title [[A'la Hazrat]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meerthi |first=Aashiq Elahi |author-link=Aashiq Elahi Meerthi |url=http://archive.org/details/Tazkira-Tur-Rasheed-Complete |title=Tazkira Tur Rasheed}}</ref>

==Early life==
Imdadullah Muhaajir Makki was born in [[Nanauta]], [[Company rule in India|British India]] in 1817.<ref name="Nawaz2000">{{cite book |editor1-last=Deobandi |editor1-first=Nawaz |editor1-link=Nawaz Deobandi |title=Sawaneh Ulama-e-Deoband |volume = 1 |edition=January 2000 |language=ur}}</ref>{{rp|347}} His father Muhammad Amīn named him Imdad Hussain. However, [[Shah Ishaq Al-Dihlawi|Shah Muhammad Ishaq]] gave him the name of Imdādullah.<ref name="Nawaz2000"/><ref name=hadhrat>{{cite web |title=Biography of Hadhrat Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki r.a. |url=http://www.hadhrat.com/haji-imdadullah-muhajir-makki-r-a/ |website=Dedicated to Hadhrat Moulana Dr Hafez Tanveer Ahmed Khan Sahib Rahmatullahi Alayh |access-date=26 March 2017}}</ref>

Aged seven, Imdādullah lost his mother who wrote her will that none shall touch her kid after her, and kept Imdādullah more beloved to her in those seven years; this became a hurdle that no one took care of Imdādullah's education.<ref name="Nawaz2000"/>{{rp|348}} He then started memorizing the [[Quran]] on his own but failed to do so. Aged 16, he traveled to [[Delhi]] with [[Mamluk Ali Nanautawi]] to seek education.<ref name="Nawaz2000"/>{{rp|348}}

==Religious work and travels==
At the age of eighteen, his ''[[bay'at]]'' was accepted by Nasiruddin [[Naqshbandi]].<ref name=hadhrat /> Later he went to study under Mianji (Noor Mohammad Jhanjhanvi), as an initiate of the Chishti-Sabiri Sufi order, but after Mianji's death he temporarily became a semi-recluse. After wandering in the wilderness for six months he was overcome by a strong urge to travel to [[Medina]]. On 7 December 1845, he arrived at [[Varanasi|Banares]]. From there, he departed for [[Ottoman Arabia]] for [[Hajj]] and pilgrimage of the tomb of shrine of [[Muhammad]].<ref name=hadhrat />

After the completion of his hajj, Imadadullah remained with Ishaq Muhajir Makki and others. Shah informed him that, after his pilgrimage to [[Medina]], he should return to India. Sayyid Qudratullah Banarasi Makki sent several of his ''[[murids]]'' to accompany him to Medina.

==Freedom struggle against the British==
In [[Thana Bhawan]], the local Sunnis declared Imdadullah their leader. In May 1857 the [[Battle of Shamli]] took place between the forces of Imdadullah and the British.<ref name="asir"/>

==Disciples==
Disciples include:<ref name="Nawaz2000"/>{{rp|352}}
* [[Meher Ali Shah|Maulana Peer Syed Shah Muhammad Meher Ali Quadri Qummaisi]]
* [[Ahmad Hasan Amrohi]]
* [[Asghar Hussain Deobandi]]<ref name="aakhrilamhaat">{{cite book |author1=Abu Muhammad Maulana Sana'ullah Shujabadi |title=Ulama-e-Deoband Ke Aakhri Lamhaat |publisher=Maktaba Rasheediya [[Saharanpur]] |page=51 |edition=2015 |language=ur}}</ref>
* [[Ashraf Ali Thanwi]]<ref>{{citation|first1=Syed Mehboob |last1=Rizwi |author-link1 = Syed Mehboob Rizwi|translator = Murtaz Hussain F Quraishi|title=History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband | volume = 2nd |page=34}}</ref>
* [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi]]
* [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]]
* [[Muhammad Anwaarullah Farooqui]]
* [[Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi]]
* [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]]
* Maulana Badruddin Phulwarvi
* [[Sayyid Muhammad Abid]]<ref name="mahbub1">{{citation|first1=Syed Mehboob |last1=Rizwi |author-link1 = Syed Mehboob Rizwi|translator = Murtaz Hussain F Quraishi|title=History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband | volume = 2nd |page=164}}</ref>
* [[Najib Ali Choudhury]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Thanwi|first=Ashraf Ali|authorlink=Ashraf Ali Thanwi|title=Imdad al-Mushtaq ila Ashraf al-Akhlaq|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYFCAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Haji+Imdad+Allah+Faruqi+was+a+paragon+of+Chishti-%C2%A7abiri+tradition+who+took+an+active+part+in+the+1857+uprising+and+even+established+an+emirate+at+Thana+Bhawan.+Shamli%27s+catastrophe+forced+him+to+leave+India+and+settle+at+Mecca%22|journal=Islamic Culture|volume=LVI|issue=I|year=1982|publisher=Islamic Culture Board|page=321}}</ref>

==Marriages==
Imdadullah married for the first time at the age of 48. After the death of his first wife, he married a blind widow. Because she was blind, she could not manage all household work, so she requested him to take another wife so all household work. Imdadullah then married for the 3rd time. None of his three wives bore him children.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

==Literary works==
His books include:
*''Faisla Haft Masala''
*''Kulliyat-e-Imdadiya''
*''Hashiya Mathnavi Moulana Rumi'': This is an annotation in [[Persian language|Persian]] on the ''Mathnawi-i Ma’nawi'' by [[Rumi]]. During Imadadullah's lifetime, only two parts could be printed. The remainder was printed after his death.
*''Ghiza-e-Ruh'' (The Nourishment of the Soul): Imadadullah wrote this book in 1264 AH. Mianji ''Noor Mohammad Jhanjhanvi'' is also discussed. It consists of 1600 verses of poetry.
*''Ikleelul Quran'' (Tafseer Quran in Arabi). First Published in [[Bahraich]] by Taj Offcet Press formerly Aqeel Press NazirPura [[Bahraich]]
*''Jihad-e-Akbar'' (The Greater [[Jihad]]): He composed this book in 1268 AH. It is a poetic work in [[Persian language|Persian]] that he translated it into [[Urdu]]. It consists of 17 pages with 679 verses.
*''Mathnavi Tuhfatul Ushshaq'' (Mathnavi – A Gift for Lovers): This consists of 1324 poetic verses and was compiled in 1281 AH.
*''Risala Dard Ghamnak'' (The Treatise of Painful Sorrow): It consists of 5 pages with 175 verses.
*''Irshad-e-Murshid'' (The Directive of the Murshid): This book deals with ''wadha'if'', ''muraaqabaat'', ''aurad'', and ''shajaraat'' of the four {{lang|mis|silsilas}}. It was written in 1293 AH.
*''Zia ul Quloob'' (Glitter of the Hearts): This book is in [[Persian language|Persian]]. He wrote this ''kitab'' in [[Makkah]] in 1282 AH on the request of Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf, the son of Hafiz Muhammad Zamin.

==Death and legacy==
Imdadullah died at [[Mecca]] in 1899.<ref name="asir">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=Asir Adrawi|author-link=Asir Adrawi|page=44|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Muallifeen |language=ur |edition = 2 April 2016}}</ref> He was buried in the [[Jannat al-Mu'alla]] cemetery besides the grave of [[Rahmatullah Kairanwi]].<ref name="Nawaz2000"/>{{rp|367}} His biographical works include: ''Imdadul Mustaq Ila Asraful Akhlaq'' by [[Ashraf Ali Thanwi]],<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Ahmad |first=Ishtiaque |author-link=Ishtiaque Ahmad Qasmi |title=Ulama E Deoband Ki Swaneh Umriyon Ka Tanqeedi Tajziya Azadi Se Qabl |publisher=Department of Urdu, [[Maulana Azad National Urdu University]] |year=2020 |location=India |language=ur |hdl=10603/338413 |degree=PhD |pages=121–126}}</ref> ''Shamaem Emdadiya'' by Muhammad Murtaza Khan Qanauji.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Ahmad |first=Ishtiaque |author-link=Ishtiaque Ahmad Qasmi |title=Ulama E Deoband Ki Swaneh Umriyon Ka Tanqeedi Tajziya Azadi Se Qabl |publisher=Department of Urdu, [[Maulana Azad National Urdu University]] |year=2020 |location=India |language=ur |hdl=10603/338413 |degree=PhD |pages=206–209}}</ref>

== Eponyms ==
*[[Jamia Arabia Imdadul Uloom]], Faridabad, Bangladesh

==See also==
*[[Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{Cite book |last=Kugle |first=Scott |url=https://academic.oup.com/north-carolina-scholarship-online/book/20535/chapter-abstract/179776210?redirectedFrom=fulltext |title=Body Revived The Heart of Ḥājji Imdādullah', Sufis & Saints' Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=2007 |isbn=9781469602684 |location=Chapel Hill, NC |language=en}}
* {{cite book |author1=Mawlāna Abd al-Rashīd Arshad |editor1-last=Deobandi |editor1-first=Nawaz |editor1-link=Nawaz Deobandi |title=Sawaneh Ulama-e-Deoband |publisher=Nawaz Publications |location=[[Deoband]] |volume = 1 |pages=342–376|edition=January 2000 |language=ur |chapter=Hadhrat Hāji Imdādullah Muhājir Makki}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Tareen |first1=SherAli |title=FAYSALA-YI HAFT MAS'ALA (A RESOLUTION TO THE SEVEN CONTROVERSIES): Haji Imdadullah's Hermeneutics of Reconciliation |journal=SAGAR: South Asia Graduate Research Journal |date=2013 |volume=21 |hdl=2152/28002 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28002 |access-date=7 November 2021 |language=en}}

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