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  "ar": "محمد إلياس الكاندهلوي",
  "en": "Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi",
  "ur": "محمد الیاس کاندھلوی"
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  "ar": "عالم هندي (1885–1944) من كاندهلة، من علماء الحركة الديوبندية ومؤسس جماعة التبليغ. درس عند رشيد أحمد الكنكوهي وفي دار العلوم ديوبند عند محمود حسن الديوبندي، وفي أوائل عشرينيات القرن العشرين أعدّ خريجين من ديوبند وسهارانبور وأرسلهم إلى ميوات لتأسيس شبكة من المساجد والمدارس، فنشأت منها جماعة التبليغ التي صارت من أوسع حركات الدعوة في العالم.",
  "en": "Indian scholar (1885–1944) of Kandhla, a scholar of the Deobandi movement and the founder of the Tablighi Jamaat. He studied under Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and, at Darul Uloom Deoband, under Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, and in the early 1920s he prepared graduates of Deoband and Saharanpur and sent them to Mewat to build a network of mosques and schools, from which the Tablighi Jamaat grew into one of the world's most widespread preaching movements.",
  "ur": "بھارتی عالم (1885ء–1944ء) جن کا تعلق کاندھلہ سے تھا، دیوبندی تحریک کے عالم اور تبلیغی جماعت کے بانی۔ رشید احمد گنگوہی سے اور دار العلوم دیوبند میں محمود حسن دیوبندی سے تعلیم حاصل کی، اور 1920ء کی دہائی کے اوائل میں دیوبند و سہارنپور کے فارغین کو تیار کر کے میوات بھیجا تاکہ مساجد و مدارس کا جال قائم ہو، جس سے تبلیغی جماعت وجود میں آئی جو دنیا کی وسیع ترین دعوتی تحریکوں میں سے ایک بن گئی۔"
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  "latest": 1944.5319890209612
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   "note": "His birth year rests on the chronogram of his birth name Akhtar Ilyas. The English body text, the Arabic article and the Urdu article give 1303 AH (1885/1886) at Kandhla in Muzaffarnagar district, which the record follows; the English infobox gives 1302 AH instead. The lane queue gives 1885. Kandhla has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "محمد الیاس بن محمد اسماعیل کاندھلوی دہلوی",
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    "note": "His school is not recorded: the lane's bar of two independent texts naming a school personally is not met, and the readings are preserved here. The English infobox carries denomination Sunni and jurisprudence Hanafi and a disciple-of list naming Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, his father Muhammad Ismail, Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri and Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi, but infobox fields never count as text attestations. The English body text states only that he lived with and studied under Gangohi and studied under Mahmud Hasan Deobandi — study, not an initiation statement. The Urdu article is a short stub naming no school and no bay'ah, and the Arabic text names no school in its prose. Wikidata's religion values (Islam, Sunni Islam, Sufism) are structured values of the same family as the infobox. Founding the Tablighi Jamaat is office, not attestation of his own school. The Sunni, Hanafi and Sufi readings each stand one independent text short.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Ilyas Kandhlavi' (revision 1367849658), Urdu Wikipedia 'محمد الیاس کاندھلوی' (revision 11800536) and Arabic Wikipedia 'محمد إلياس الكاندهلوي' (revision 71117141), each fetched by its recorded revision id with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q659028 (item revision 2556891499). The three articles are independently written; the Urdu is a short stub. Existence checks by name fragments (kandhlawi, kandhlavi, کاندھلوی, الكاندهلوي), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man. The student_of edges follow the texts' study statements: the English and Arabic texts state that he studied under Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, and the English and Urdu texts that he studied under Mahmud Hasan Deobandi at Deoband. The member_of edge to group/deobandiyya follows the English lead's description of him as a scholar of the Deobandi movement. No group entity exists for the Tablighi Jamaat, so his founding of it is stated in prose only; Kandhla has no place entity. His nephew Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi's record, written in the same run, carries the kinship edge toward him; no outward kin edge is written here. The lane queue gives 1885–1944, which the articles confirm with the birth-year caveat in the born note.",
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     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد إلياس الكاندهلوي (1885 – 13 تموز 1944) عالم دين إسلامي هندي من علماء الحركة الديوبندية، أسس جماعة التبليغ سنة 1925 في منطقة موات.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} وصارت الجماعة التي أطلقها — وكان سيسميها تحريك إيمان، أي حركة الإيمان — من أوسع حركات الدعوة الشعبية في العالم.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته وتعليمه",
     "markdown": "وُلد سنة 1303هـ (1885/1886م) في قرية كاندهلة من أعمال مظفر نكر، ويُحسب عام مولده من التاريخ الشعري لاسمه عند الولادة «أختر إلياس»، بينما يعطي صندوق المقالة الإنجليزية 1302هـ.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} حفظ القرآن على يد أبيه في منطقة نظام الدين بدلهي ودرس عليه كتب العربية والفارسية الأولى، ثم تتلمذ على رشيد أحمد الكنكوهي ولازمه حتى وفاة الكنكوهي سنة 1905.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} ثم التحق سنة 1908 بدار العلوم ديوبند ودرس على محمود حسن الديوبندي.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تأسيس جماعة التبليغ",
     "markdown": "في مطلع عشرينيات القرن العشرين أعدّ نخبة من شباب خريجي المدارس الدينية من ديوبند وسهارانبور وأرسلهم إلى موات لتأسيس مجموعة من المساجد والمدارس الإسلامية في المنطقة، وأطلق على هذه الجماعة لاحقاً اسم جماعة التبليغ.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar} وانتشرت الجماعة بعد ذلك في بلدان كثيرة منها كندا وجنوب إفريقيا وبريطانيا.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} وقد كتب أبو الحسن علي الندوي سيرته في كتاب «حياة مولانا محمد إلياس ورسالته».{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي في دلهي في 13 تموز 1944 (1363هـ).{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar of the Deobandi movement who founded the Tablighi Jamaat in 1925 in the Mewat region.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} The movement he began — which he would have named Tehreek-e-Imaan, the Faith Movement — became one of the most widespread grassroots Islamic movements in the world.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born in 1303 AH (1885/1886) in the village of Kandhla in Muzaffarnagar district; his birth year is computed from the chronogram of his birth name, Akhtar Ilyas, and the English article's infobox gives 1302 AH instead.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar} He memorised the Qur'an under his father's supervision in the Nizamuddin area of Delhi and studied the elementary Arabic and Persian books mostly under his father, then lived with and studied under Rashid Ahmad Gangohi until Gangohi's death in 1905.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar} In 1908 he enrolled at Darul Uloom Deoband and studied under Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}"
    },
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     "heading": "Foundation of the Tablighi Jamaat",
     "markdown": "In the early 1920s he prepared a team of young madrasah graduates from Deoband and Saharanpur and sent them to Mewat to establish a network of mosques and Islamic schools.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar} The people of South Asia began calling the devotees Tableeghi, and the name Tablighi Jamaat became popular; the movement later spread to many countries, including Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi wrote his biography, Life and Mission of Maulana Mohammad Ilyas.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}"
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     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died at Delhi on 13 July 1944 (1363 AH).{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi}"
    },
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     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi}}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "محمد الیاس کاندھلوی (1885ء – 13 جولائی 1944ء) بھارتی عالم دین اور دیوبندی تحریک کے بزرگ تھے جنھوں نے 1925ء میں موات کے علاقے میں تبلیغی جماعت کی بنیاد رکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} ان کی شروع کی ہوئی تحریک — جسے وہ «تحریکِ ایمان» کہنا پسند کرتے — دنیا کی وسیع ترین دعوتی تحریکوں میں سے ایک بن گئی۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی و تعلیم",
     "markdown": "1303ھ (1885ء/1886ء) میں قصبہ کاندھلہ، ضلع مظفرنگر میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کا سنِ ولادت ان کے پیدائشی نام «اختر الیاس» کے تاریخی مادے سے محسوب ہے، جبکہ انگریزی مضمون کا صندوق 1302ھ دیتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} قرآن اپنے والد کی نگرانی میں دہلی کے نظام الدین علاقے میں حفظ کیا اور عربی و فارسی کی ابتدائی کتابیں بیشتر والد سے پڑھیں، پھر رشید احمد گنگوہی کے پاس رہ کر ان سے تعلیم حاصل کی یہاں تک کہ 1905ء میں گنگوہی کا انتقال ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar} 1326ھ میں دار العلوم دیوبند پہنچے اور محمود حسن دیوبندی کے درس میں شریک ہوئے اور ترمذی و بخاری کی سماعت کی۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تبلیغی جماعت کی تاسیس",
     "markdown": "1920ء کی دہائی کے اوائل میں انھوں نے دیوبند و سہارنپور کے نوجوان فارغین کی ایک جماعت تیار کی اور انھیں موات بھیجا تاکہ وہاں مساجد و مدارس کا جال قائم ہو۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar} جنوبی ایشیا کے لوگ اہلِ تبلیغ کو «تبلیغی» کہنے لگے اور یہی نام مشہور ہوا؛ بعد میں یہ تحریک کینیڈا، جنوبی افریقا اور برطانیہ سمیت کئی ملکوں میں پھیل گئی۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en} ابو الحسن علی ندوی نے ان کی سوانح «حضرت مولانا محمد الیاس اور ان کی دینی دعوت» لکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "13 جولائی 1944ء (1363ھ) کو دہلی میں انتقال ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi}"
    },
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ilyas-kandhlawi}}"
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