Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi

Sheikh Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic religious scholar. He started Jamaat at-Tabligh in 1925 in Mewat province.

 Birth 

Muhammad Ilyas ibn Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi Dehlawi was born in the year 1303 AH (1885/1886 CE) in the village of Kandhla. He was named after this village. He was also linked to Delhi and was called Dehlawi.

 Education 

Kandhlawi started memorizing the Quran in a village school. He later finished memorizing it in Delhi with his father. His father also taught him the Arabic and Persian languages, then he became a student of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi. After Gangohi died, he joined Darul Uloom Deoband in the year 1908.

 Founding of Jamaat at-Tabligh 

At the start of the 1920s, Kandhlawi prepared a group of young men who finished religious schools from Deoband and Saharanpur. He sent them to Mewat to build many mosques and Islamic schools in the area. Kandhlawi later gave this group the name Jamaat al-Tabligh (Urdu: تَبْلُّىغَى جَمَاعَتْ). Sheikh Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi also influenced many scholars, such as Sheikh Abu al-Hasan al-Nadwi and Sheikh Muhammad Umar Palanpuri.[http://www.binatiih.com/book/lsanadawh.rar
 Book: Lisan al-Da‘wah wa al-Tabligh] 

 Further reading 

 দ্বীনদরদি আলেম ইলিয়াস (রহ.)





 References 

Category:Leaders in Jamaat al-Tabligh
Category:People from Shamli district
Category:Islamism
Category:Students of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
Category:Deobandis
Category:Sunni Islamic scholars
Category:Indian Sunni Islamic scholars
Category:Indian Muslims
Category:1885 births
Category:People born in Kandhla
Category:1363 AH deaths
Category:1944 deaths