Biography
Syed Ahmed Dehlvi belonged to a Sayyid family in Delhi. His father,Maulvi Imamuddin,privately tutored Mughal princes,and his maternal uncle,Mir Syed Mehboob Ali Jafari,was a student of Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi.
Syed pledged allegiance to Qasim Nanawtawi in Sufism. In 1868 AD (1285 AH),he began his career as a teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband and succeeded Yaqub Nanautawi as the seminary's second principal and Sheikh al-Hadith (Senior Professor of Hadith) in 1886 (Rabi' al-Thani 1302 AH). He resigned from the seminary in 1890 AD (1307 AH) and joined Madrasa Jahangiri in Bhopal as a principal and rector at the invitation of Shah Jahan Begum. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
During his tenure as principal at Darul Uloom Deoband,thirty students completed graduation in Dars-e-Nizami,including Ghulam Rasool Hazarvi and Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri. [10] [8] Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, [11] [12] Muhammad Yasin Deobandi, [13] Ubaidullah Sindhi, [14] Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, [16] and Abdul Hayy Hasani were also among his students in Deoband and Bhopal,respectively. [18]
He died in Bhopal in 1894 (1311 AH).
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