Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi


Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi was an Indian Scholar of Hadith and Fiqh. He was born in the town Maunath Bhanjan in the Mau district, in the Uttar Pradesh State. He completed the formal education in Mau in 1922 and took up a teaching assignment there.

Services

He helped to bring the Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani back to attention within the Muslim world..

Legacy

Although various research scholars have made Habib al-Rahman the title of their thesis, one thesis of M.Phil. standard has been written about him. Masood Ahmad Azmi wrote ‘‘Hayat abul Ma'asir Allama Habib al-Rahman al-Azmi ’’ in two volumes. It has been published by Madrassa Mirqatul Uloom, Mau. It is over and about 1500 pages and discusses various aspects of the life of Maulana Azmi. Abdel-Halim Mahmoud gave him the title of ‘‘The Greatest Scholar of The Islamic World ’’.