Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri

Khalil Ahmad Sahranpuri was a Muslim teacher from India. He was a Hanafi, Deobandi, and Sufi teacher. He taught about Islam, hadith, and beliefs of Ahl al-Sunnah. He followed the Ashʿari and Maturidi belief ways.كتاب: مباحث في عقائد أهل السنة، المسمى المهند على المفند، تأليف: الشيخ خليل أحمد السهارنفوري، تحقيق: محمد بن آدم الكوثري، دار الفتح، 2004م. He was also a Sufi teacher of the Chishti way, being a student and a teacher who came to succeed his teacher Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.

 Name 
His full name was Khalil Ahmad ibn Majid Ali ibn Ahmad Ali ibn Qutb Ali al-Ansari al-Hanafi.

 Birth 
He was born in the village of Nanoteh, near Saharanpur. He grew up in the town of Ambetha.

 Teachers 
He learned from many teachers, including: Muhammad Yaqub Nanotvi, Muhammad Mazhar Nanotvi, Hasan Saharanpuri, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Qayyum Burhanawi, Ahmad Barzanji, Abdul Ghani Mujaddidi, and Imdadullah Muhajir Makki.

 Students 
Many students learned from him. The closest was Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi. Others include Abdullah Gangohi, Aashiq Ilahi Meerthi, Fakhruddin Ghazi, Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi, Faiz al-Hasan Gangohi, and Muhammad Husayn al-Habashi.

 Death 
He died on Wednesday, the 16th of Rabiʿ al-Thani, in the year 1346 AH, in Medina. He was buried in Al-Baqi cemetery.

 Works 
He wrote many books, including:

 Badhl al-Majhud fi Sharh Abi Dawud
 Al-Muhannad ‘ala al-Mufannad
 Tanshit al-Adhan
 Mitraqat al-Karama
 Hidayat al-Rashid
 Itmam al-Ni‘am

 See also 

 Abdul Hayy al-Laknawi
 Safi al-Din al-Hindi al-Urmawi

 Siraj al-Din al-Ghaznawi

 References