Najmul Millat

Najmul Millat

'Najm al-Ḥassan (Arabic: نجم الحسن‎), popularly known as Najmul Millat or Najmul Ulama, (25 May 1863 to 18 April 1938)^[1] was a top faqīh (Islamic jurist), and trained several Ulama such as Sibte Hasan Naqvi, Farman Ali, Mohammad Haroon, Mohammad Dawood, Kifayat Hussain, Adeel Akhtar, and Jaffer Hussain. They all did Mumtazul Afazil from Jamia Nazmia.

He was born on 25 May 1863 (6th Dhu'l Hijjah 1279) to Akbar Hussain of Amroha. Najmul Hasan was a favorite disciple and son-in-law of Muhammad Abbas Shushtri al-Jazairi. Muhammad Abbas was the teacher of Hamid Husain and Abul Hasan. Muhammad Abbas was also a contemporary of the author of Jawahir (a famous book on Fiqh).

Najmul Millat studied all the higher faculties, including fiqh and Uṣūl al-fiqh in India under the guidance of Hasan urf Abbu Sahib qibla and Muhammad Abbas. He was a contemporary of Ziauddin al-Iraqi, Kazim Tabatabai Yazdi and Abul Hasan Isfehani. Himself a Faqih of the first rank, he trained several Ulama like Sibte Hasan, Adeel Akhtar and Kitayat Husain.^[2] He will ever be remembered for his services to the Shi'a of Tibet, Burma, Africa and countries in the West rendered through the missionaries trained in his Jamia Nazmia. He wrote several books.

Najmul Millat died on 18 April 1938 (17th Safar 1351). He had two sons, Muhammad (author of "Islam in the Light of Shiism") and Kazim. Mohammad was the founder of Madrasatul Waizeen. He had two sons - Mohd Zaki and Mohd Razi. Kazim also had two sons - the translators Mohammad Sadiq and Mohammad Mohsin. Jawad Husain Abidi (Mumtazul Afazil from Jamia Nazmia) was the son-in-law of Najmul Millat. Nasir Husain Abidi was the son of Jawad Husain.

Najmul Millat's great grandson is Syed Hamidul Hasan, Principal of Jamia Nazmia and great-great-grandson Faridul Hasan, its former principal.^[3]

References

1. ^ Allamah Seyyid Najmul Hasan
2. ^ CHAPTER 2 THE FUQAHA
3. ^ Nazmia in Brief

External links

• 100 Ulema #78