الرحلةThe Journey

محمد أنور شاه الكشميري

Anwar Shah Kashmiri (RH)

Muhammad Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Also known as: Anwar Shah al-Kashmiri, Allama Kashmiri

1292–1352 AH · 1875–1933 CE

Hadith Hanafi

Hadith master of Deoband, famed for his memory, whose lectures became Fayd al-Bari.

Anwar Shah Kashmiri was born in the Lolab valley of Kashmir and studied at Deoband with Mahmud Hasan. After teaching in Delhi and Kashmir he returned to Deoband, where he taught Sahih al-Bukhari and Sunan al-Tirmidhi and was head teacher from 1915 to 1927. He then moved to the madrasah at Dabhel in Gujarat.

He was famed for his memory and the range of his reading, and his lessons compared the Hanafi school with the others on every question. His students compiled his lectures as Fayd al-Bari on al-Bukhari and al-'Arf al-Shadhi on al-Tirmidhi, and they included many of the leading hadith teachers of South Asia in the next generation.

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Life journey

  1. 1875 CE Lolab valley (Kashmir) لولاب
  2. 1889 CE Deoband ديوبند
    Studied at Deoband under Mahmud Hasan.
  3. 1894 CE Delhi دلهي
    Taught in Delhi and then in Kashmir; these years are approximate.
  4. 1908 CE Deoband ديوبند
    Taught hadith at Deoband and was its head teacher from 1915.
  5. 1927 CE Dabhel دابهيل
    Moved to the madrasah at Dabhel in Gujarat.
  6. 1933 CE Deoband ديوبند
    Died 1933 CE · 1352 AH
    Returned to Deoband in his final illness.

Teachers

  • Shaykh al-Hind (RH) 1851–1920 CE
    Kashmiri studied hadith at Deoband with Mahmud Hasan, his principal teacher, and later succeeded to his teaching of Sahih al-Bukhari there.

Students

Key works

  • Fayd al-Bari فيض الباري على صحيح البخاري
    The Creator's Outpouring
    His lectures on Sahih al-Bukhari, compiled by his student Badr 'Alam Mirathi.

Places in their life

The Jama Masjid, Delhi
The Jama Masjid, Delhi
Photo: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

  • Muhammad Yusuf al-Banuri, Nafhat al-'Anbar fi Hayat Imam al-'Asr al-Shaykh Anwar
  • Barbara D. Metcalf, Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860–1900 (1982)
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.
The years in Delhi and Kashmir (about 1894 to 1908) are approximate.