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He memorised the Qur'an at ten and graduated from Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur in 1936, and after his father's death in 1944 he organised the Jamaat's system and spread its work; he wrote Hayat al-Sahaba and Amani al-Ahbar fi Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar, died at Lahore in 1965 and was buried beside his father at Delhi.", "ur": "بھارتی عالم (1917ء–1965ء) جن کا تعلق کاندھلہ سے تھا، تبلیغی جماعت کے بانی محمد الیاس کاندھلوی کے فرزند اور ان کے بعد جماعت کے دوسرے امیر۔ دس سال کی عمر میں قرآن حفظ کیا اور 1936ء میں مظاہر علوم سہارنپور سے فارغ ہوئے، والد کی وفات (1944ء) کے بعد جماعت کا نظام مرتب کیا اور اس کے کام کو وسعت دی، «حیاۃ الصحابہ» اور «امانی الاحبار» تصنیف کیں، 1965ء میں لاہور میں انتقال ہوا اور دہلی میں والد کے پہلو میں دفن ہوئے۔" }, "stub": false, "wings": [ "people" ], "regions": [ "south-asia" ], "periods": [], "tags": [], "aliases": [], "themes": [], "span": { "earliest": 1917.2131529052615, "latest": 1965.2524692498503 }, "display": { "start": { "edtf": "1917-03-20", "hijri": "1335", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born at Kandhla on 20 March 1917; the Urdu article pairs the date with 25 Jumada al-awwal 1335 AH, and the English article and Wikidata give the same Gregorian date. Kandhla has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur", "source/wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi" ] }, "end": { "edtf": "1965-04-02", "hijri": "1384", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died at Lahore on 2 April 1965, as the English infobox and the Urdu death section (29 Dhu al-Qa'da 1384 AH) give; the English body text gives the year and place. His funeral prayer was held at Delhi and he was buried beside his father's grave there, as the English and Arabic texts state.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi" ] } }, "data": { "names": [ { "value": "Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "محمد يوسف الكاندهلوي", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "محمد یوسف کاندھلوی", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "Kandhlawi", "kind": "nisba" } ], "gender": "male", "roles": [ "scholar", "preacher", "writer" ], "born": { "edtf": "1917-03-20", "hijri": "1335", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born at Kandhla on 20 March 1917; the Urdu article pairs the date with 25 Jumada al-awwal 1335 AH, and the English article and Wikidata give the same Gregorian date. Kandhla has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur", "source/wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi" ] }, "died": { "edtf": "1965-04-02", "hijri": "1384", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died at Lahore on 2 April 1965, as the English infobox and the Urdu death section (29 Dhu al-Qa'da 1384 AH) give; the English body text gives the year and place. His funeral prayer was held at Delhi and he was buried beside his father's grave there, as the English and Arabic texts state.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi" ] }, "faith": [ { "value": "unknown", "basis": "unknown", "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. No article text names a school for him: the English and Urdu infoboxes carry denomination Sunni and jurisprudence Hanafi and a Deobandi movement field, but infobox fields never count as text attestations, and the two infoboxes are one structured family. The Urdu prose, the fullest biography, names no school, and the Arabic article closely follows the English article's content and citations. Category filings (Indian Sunni Muslim scholars, Deobandis) never count. Wikidata's single religion value is Islam. His graduation from Mazahir Uloom and his succession of his father as amir of the Tablighi Jamaat are education and office, not attestations of his own school. The Sunni and Hanafi readings each stand on the infoboxes alone.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi" ] } ], "external_ids": { "wikidata": "Q6932805" }, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur", "source/wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar", "source/wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi" ], "provenance": { "layer": "own-research", "source": "English Wikipedia 'Yusuf Kandhlavi' (revision 1374667143), Urdu Wikipedia 'محمد یوسف کاندھلوی' (revision 11800447) and Arabic Wikipedia 'محمد يوسف الكندهلوي' (revision 73572933), each fetched by its recorded revision id with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q6932805 (item revision 2552263171). The Urdu article is an independently written full biography; the Arabic article closely follows the English article's content and cited profiles and is counted with it as one family. Existence checks by name fragments (yusuf-kandhlawi, yusuf-kandhlavi, یوسف کاندھلوی, يوسف الكندهلوي/الكاندهلوي), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man; the existing Yusuf records (hamza-yusuf, muhammad-yusuf-ludhianvi and others) are different people. The child_of edge records that he is the son of Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi — Yusuf is Ilyas's son — as all three texts state (the English and Arabic texts state he was buried beside his father's grave, the Urdu text names his father directly); it is written once, here, in the son's record, and his father's record (wave 78) is not edited. No member_of edge is written: the Tablighi Jamaat has no group entity, and a Deobandi movement edge would rest on the two articles' infobox movement fields alone, so his Mazahir Uloom graduation and Tablighi office are stated in prose only. Kandhla has no place entity. 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بحفظه.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} درس كتب الفقه حتى «كنز الدقائق» على حافظ مقبول حسن الكنكوهي، ثم التحق بمظاهر علوم فقرأ «الهداية» وصحاح الحديث على شيوخها، ومنهم محمد زكريا الكاندهلوي الذي قرأ عليه «سنن أبي داود»، وتخرج منها سنة 1936 وهو في العشرين.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar} وتزوج سنة 1935 من كبرى بنات محمد زكريا الكاندهلوي.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}" }, { "heading": "إمارته لجماعة التبليغ", "markdown": "بعد وفاة والده سنة 1944 صار الأمير الثاني لجماعة التبليغ، وأقام نظامها المعروف من التشكيلات والجولات وأمداد الخروج، فانتشر عملها في دور إمارته إلى أنحاء العالم وبدأت جولاتها الخارجية من المسجد النبوي.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en} وكان خطيبًا مؤثرًا يحضر بيانه في مركز نظام الدين بدلهي كثير من غير المسلمين.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}" }, { "heading": "مؤلفاته", "markdown": "من مؤلفاته «حياة الصحابة» في ثلاثة أجزاء بالعربية، و«أماني الأحبار في شرح معاني الآثار» في أربعة أجزاء، و«منتخب أحاديث» بالأردية والعربية.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}" }, { "heading": "وفاته", "markdown": "سافر إلى باكستان فاعتلّ في اجتماع بلاهور ونُقل إلى المستشفى، وتوفي في لاهور في 29 ذي القعدة 1384هـ الموافق 2 نيسان 1965 عن 48 عامًا.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar} وصلى عليه في دلهي محمد زكريا الكاندهلوي وحضر جنازته ما لا يقل عن مائتي ألف، ودُفن بجوار قبر والده محمد إلياس الكاندهلوي.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}" }, { "heading": "ملاحظة على المذهب", "markdown": "لا تسمّي مقالات ويكيبيديا الثلاث مذهبًا له في متونها؛ فحقول السنة والحنفية وحركة الديوبندية ترد في صناديق معلومات المقالات الإنجليزية والأردية وهي بيانات منظمة لا شهادات نصية، وتصنيفات الموسوعة لا تُعدّ شهادة، فبقي مذهبه في سجله غير مصنّف مع حفظ القراءتين في ملاحظة المذهب بالسجل.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi}" }, { "heading": "المراجع", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi", "lang": "ar", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "en": { "sections": [ { "heading": "Summary", "markdown": "Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi (20 March 1917 – 2 April 1965) was an Indian scholar, the son of Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi, founder of the Tablighi Jamaat, and his successor as the Jamaat's second amir.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} He wrote Hayat al-Sahaba in three volumes and Amani al-Ahbar fi Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar in four.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}" }, { "heading": "Early life and education", "markdown": "He was born at Kandhla on 25 Jumada al-awwal 1335 AH (20 March 1917), while his father was teaching at Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} He memorised the Qur'an at ten under Hafiz Imam Khan Mewati, and Syed Ahmad Faizabadi, elder brother of Hussain Ahmad Madani, sent him an honorary degree from Medina marking the memorisation.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} He read the fiqh books up to Kanz al-Daqa'iq under Hafiz Maqbul Hasan Gangohi, then entered Mazahir Uloom, where he read the hadith collections under its teachers — among them Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, under whom he read Sunan Abi Dawud — and graduated in 1936 (1355 AH) at twenty.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en} In 1935 he married Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi's eldest daughter.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}" }, { "heading": "Amir of the Tablighi Jamaat", "markdown": "After his father's death in 1944 he became the Jamaat's second amir; the Urdu biography credits him with devising the Jamaat's working system of tours and set periods of travel, and in his time the movement's preaching journeys abroad began from the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} His addresses at the Nizamuddin centre in Delhi drew large audiences, including many Hindus.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}" }, { "heading": "Works", "markdown": "His books include Hayat al-Sahaba (The Companions' Way of Life), three volumes in Arabic; Amani al-Ahbar fi Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar, a four-volume annotation of al-Tahawi's work; and Muntakhab Ahadith in Urdu and Arabic.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}" }, { "heading": "Death", "markdown": "He fell ill during a gathering at Lahore on a preaching journey to Pakistan and died there on 29 Dhu al-Qa'da 1384 AH (2 April 1965), aged 48.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en} His funeral prayer at Delhi, led by Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, was attended by at least two hundred thousand mourners, and he was buried next to his father's grave.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}" }, { "heading": "A note on his school", "markdown": "None of the three Wikipedia articles names a school for him in its prose; the Sunni, Hanafi and Deobandi-movement values appear in the English and Urdu articles' infoboxes, which are structured fields rather than text attestations, and category filings do not attest, so his record leaves the school unclassified with the readings preserved in its faith note.{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi}" }, { "heading": "References", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "ur": { "sections": [ { "heading": "خلاصہ", "markdown": "محمد یوسف کاندھلوی (20 مارچ 1917ء – 2 اپریل 1965ء) بھارتی عالم دین، تبلیغی جماعت کے بانی محمد الیاس کاندھلوی کے فرزند اور ان کے بعد جماعت کے دوسرے امیر تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en} ان کی تصانیف میں «حیاۃ الصحابہ» اور «امانی الاحبار فی شرح معانی الآثار» شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}" }, { "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی و تعلیم", "markdown": "آپ کی ولادت کاندھلہ میں 25 جمادی اولیٰ 1335ھ بمطابق 20 مارچ 1917ء کو ہوئی؛ اس وقت آپ کے والد مظاہر علوم سہارنپور میں مدرس تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} دس سال کی عمر میں حافظ امام خان میواتی سے قرآن حفظ کیا، اور سید حسین احمد مدنی کے بڑے بھائی سید احمد فیض آبادی نے مدینہ منورہ سے آپ کے لیے حفظ کی اعزازی سند بھیجی۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en} فقہ کی کتابیں کنز الدقائق تک حافظ مقبول حسن گنگوہی سے پڑھیں، پھر مظاہر علوم سہارنپور میں داخل ہو کر صحاح پڑھیں — سنن ابی داؤد محمد زکریا کاندھلوی سے — اور 1936ء میں بیس سال کی عمر میں فارغ ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} 1935ء میں آپ کا نکاح محمد زکریا کاندھلوی کی بڑی صاحبزادی سے ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}" }, { "heading": "تبلیغی جماعت کی امارت", "markdown": "والد کی وفات (1944ء) کے بعد آپ جماعت کے دوسرے امیر مقرر ہوئے؛ چلہ اور چار ماہ وغیرہ کی ترتیب انہی کی بنائی ہوئی سمجھی جاتی ہے، اور آپ کے دور میں مسجد نبوی سے بیرونی تبلیغی اسفار شروع ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} مرکز نظام الدین، دہلی میں آپ کے بیان سننے کے لیے ہندو بھی بکثرت آتے تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}" }, { "heading": "تصانیف", "markdown": "ان کی کتب میں «حیاۃ الصحابہ» (تین جلدیں، عربی)، «امانی الاحبار فی شرح معانی الآثار» (چار جلدیں) اور «منتخب احادیث» شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}" }, { "heading": "وفات", "markdown": "پاکستان کے سفر کے دوران لاہور کے اجتماع میں طبیعت خراب ہوئی اور 29 ذی قعدہ 1384ھ بمطابق 2 اپریل 1965ء کو انتقال ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur} دہلی میں نماز جنازہ محمد زکریا کاندھلوی نے پڑھائی، کم از کم دو لاکھ افراد شریک ہوئے، اور آپ والد محمد الیاس کاندھلوی کے پہلو میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}" }, { "heading": "حوالہ جات", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-muhammad-yusuf-kandhlawi}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": 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