Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi

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Imam Mohammad Hayyat ibn Ibraaheem al-Sindi (Arabic) امام الشيخ محمد حياة بن ابراهيم السندي )(d. ca. 1750 ): was a prominent Muslim scholar in Medina in the eighteen-century.

Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab's teacher Abdallah ibn Ibrahim ibn Sayf introduced the relatively young man to Mohammad Hayya Al-Sindhi in Medina and recommended him as a student. Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab and al-Sindi became very close and Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab stayed with him for some time. Al-Sindi was a renowned scholar of hadith who was well known for repudiating innovations. Scholars have described Muhammad Hayya as having an important influence on Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, encouraging him to denounce rigid imitation of medieval commentaries and to utilize informed individual analysis (ijtihad). Muhammad Hayya also taught Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab to reject popular religious practices associated with 'saints' and their tombs that resembles later Wahhabi teachings. Muhammad Hayya and his milieu are important for understanding the origins of at least the Wahhabi revivalist impulse.^[1]

His Death

He passed away on Wednesday, the 26th of Safar, 1163H in Medina, and was buried in the Jannat al Baqi .^[2]

Further reading

• Muḥammad Ḥayyā al-Sindī and Muḥammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab: An Analysis of an Intellectual Group in Eighteenth-Century Madīna, John Voll. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 38, No. 1 (1975), pp. 32–39. Cambridge University Press on behalf of School of Oriental and African Studies. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/614196
• ' The non-Wahhabi Hanbalis', 277-91.
• Aziz Ahmad, ' Political and religious ideas of Shah Wali-ullah of Delhi ', Muslim World, LII, 1, 1962, 22.
• G. W. J. Drewes, 'Indonesia: mysticism and activism', in G. E. von Grunebaum (ed.), Unity and variety in Muslim civilization, Chicago, 1955, 290-1.
• Saint-Prot, Charles. Islam. L'avenir de la tradition entre révolution et occidentalisation (Islam. The Future of Tradition between Revolution and Westernization). Paris: Le Rocher, 2008.

References

1. ^ BOOK REVIEWS - Robinson 3 (1): 116 - Journal of Islamic Studies
2. ^ http://aa.trinimuslims.com/showthread.php?t=275

• http://jis.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/3/1/116 BOOK REVIEWS - Robinson 3 (1): 116 - Journal of Islamic Studies