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A Mujaddid (Arabic: مجدد), in Islamic tradition, refers to a person who Muslims believe is sent by God in the first half of every century of the Islamic calendar. The mujaddid's objective is to revive Islam, remove from it any extraneous elements and restore it to its pristine state. A mujaddid might be a caliph, saint (wali), a prominent teacher, a scholar or some other kind of influential person.
As it says in the hadith:
"Allah shall raise for this Umma at the head of every century a man who shall renew (or revive) for it its religion" (Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Malahim, ch. 1.)
There are a wide range of opinions about the identity of the mujaddid for any given century, but to a large degree Muslims can agree that, even if they were not the mujaddid of their day, the overwhelming majority of the candidates listed below were great orthodox scholars who made positive contributions to Islam.
[edit] List of possible Mujaddids and claimants
First Century (after the prophetic period) (August 3, 718)
- al-Qâsim ibn Muhammad
- Ibn Shihâb al-Zuhrî
- Imam Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man (699 - 767) (Arabic: أبو حنيفة النعمان)
(See also Hanafi)
- Ibn Sirin (8th century) (Arabic: ابن سيرين)
- Sâlim ibn `Abd Allâh
- Amir al-Mu'minin Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (682 - 720) (Arabic: عمر بن عبدالعزيز)
(See also Umayyad)
- Imam Hasan al-Basri (642 - 728 or 737) (Arabic: الحسن البصري)
- Imam Malik ibn Anas (715 - 796) (Arabic: مالك بن أنس)
(See also Maliki)
Second Century (August 10, 815)
- Imam Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i (767 - 820) (Arabic: محمد بن إدريس الشافعي)
(See also Shafi`i)
- Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780 - 855) (Arabic: أحمد بن حنبل)
(See also Hanbali)
- Imam Muhammad bin Shaibani
- Yah.yâ ibn Ma`în
Third Century (August 17, 912)
- Abu'l-Hasan Ash'ari
- Abu Sharh
- Al-Nasai
- Ibn Surayj
Fourth Century (August 24, 1009)
- Imam Al-Ghazali (1058 - 1111) (Arabic: الغزالي)
- `Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
- Abu Bakr Baqlani
- Abû Hâmid al-Isfarâyînî
- Abu Ubaid Naishapuri
- Hakim al-Nishaburi
- Imam Abu Haatim Raazi
- Imam Abu Jaafar bin Jareer Tibri
- Imam al-Bayhaqi
- Imam Tahtaawi
Fifth Century (September 1, 1106)
- Al Sayyid Abdul Qadir Jilani
- Imam Abul Hussain Ahmed bin Muhammad Abi Bakr-il-Qaadir
- Imam Abu Naeem Isfahani
- Imam Hussain bin Raaghib
- Imam Ghazali
Sixth Century (September 9, 1203)
- Moinuddin Chishti
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- al-Rafi`i
- Allamah Imam Umar Nasfi
- Imam Qaazi Fakhrud'Deen Hassan Mansoor
- Imam Abu Muhammad Hussain bin Mas'ood Fara'a
Seventh Century
Eighth Century (September 23, 1397)
- Ibn Hajar Asqalani
- Saleh ibn Umar
Ninth Century (October 1, 1494)
- Imam Jalaludin Sayuti
- Imam Nooruddeen bin Ahmad Misri
- Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpuri
Tenth Century (October 19, 1591)
- Imam-e-Rabbani Mujaddid Alif Sani Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi
- Imam Shahabuddeen Abu Bakr Ahmad bin Muhammad Khatib Qistalaani
- Imam Muhammad Sharbini
- Imam Muhammad Ar Ramli
Eleventh Century (October 26, 1688)
- Shaykh ul-Islam Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab (1703 - 1792)
(See also Salafism, Wahhabism, Athari, Hanbali, Islamism)
- Shah Wali Allah Muhaddath Dehlavi
- Al-Qutb Imam al-Haddad of Hadramawt, Yemen
- Ibrâhîm ibn H.asan al-Kurdî al-Kawrânî al-Madanî
Twelfth Century
- Sayyid Ahmad Brelvi
Thirteenth Century (November 12, 1882)
- Said Nursi (1878 - 1960) (Kurdish:Seîd Nûrsî, Turkish:Said Nursî, Arabic:سعيد النورسي)
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (also claimed to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, rejected by Ahlus Sunnah group)
- Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan al Barelwi
- Allamah Imam Ahmad bin Ismaeel Tahtaawi
- Allamah Shah Abdul Azeez Muhaddith-e-Delhwi
- al-Qâd.î H.usayn ibn Muh.ammad al-Ans.ârî al-Khazrajî al-Sa`dî al-Yamânî
- Amadou Bamba
- Nawâb S.iddîq H.asan Khân Bhûpâlî al-Qinnawjî
- Taqiuddin al-Nabhani
- Sheikh Badr al-Dîn al-H.asani
- Sheikh al-Kawthari
- Sayyed 'Abu'l Bari al-Hasani wa'l-Hussaini
- Sayyid Nadhîr Husayn
- Hakim al-Umma Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanwi
Fourteenth Century (November 21, 1979)
- Sheikh Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz (1910 - 1999) (Arabic: عبدالعزيز بن عبدالله بن باز)
- Sheikh Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (1914 - 1999) (Arabic: محمد ناصر الدين الألباني)
- Imam Hassan Al-Banna (1906 - 1949) (Arabic: حسن البنا)
(See also Muslim Brotherhood)
- Fethullah Gülen Hocaefendi
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan ((RA) Naqshbandi Mujaddidi)
- Hazrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali
- Ameer e Ahle Sunnat Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri
- Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al Haqqani
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