Najmuddin Hotsinsky

Born at Gotsob in Dagestan to a landowning Avar family — his father Muhammad Donogo had been a naib of Imam Shamil who defected to Russia — Najmuddin followed his elder brother Abdulatip into the ulama after a religious education, served the Dagestan Oblast court, and was naib of the Koisubu prefecture from 1895 to 1903 ¹. In 1903 he travelled to the Ottoman Empire, wrote poetry there, and sought and received Abdul Hamid II's encouragement for an imamate of Dagestan ¹. He was known across Dagestan and Chechnya for his charity, distributing meat to the poor at the Islamic holidays ¹.

At the May 1917 congress of the Union of Highlanders in Vladikavkaz, Najmuddin was appointed mufti of the North Caucasus ¹. Proclaimed imam at Temir-Khan-Shura in January 1918, he again stepped back within days; in 1919 the highlanders gathered at Gunib recognised his authority as Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya, and he mobilised resistance first to Denikin's Whites and then to the Bolsheviks ¹. His breach with the Naqshbandi sheikh Uzun-Hajji, whose emirate he and allied scholars condemned, split the anti-Bolshevik camp ¹. After the failure of the 1924–1925 Chechen uprising he was captured in September 1925 and executed by shooting at Rostov-on-Don ^{1 2}.

Two readings stand in the sources, and neither reaches the two-text bar. The Sunni reading rests on infoboxes and structured data alone — the Russian and Avar infoboxes give Islam of the Sunni persuasion, the English infobox Sunni Islam, and Wikidata the same value — one family of fields referenced to no text, while no article text names his madhhab ^{3 2 4}. The English infobox's further fields, Sufism and Naqshbandi, stand against the Russian article's text, which states expressly that although he praised some Sufi sheikhs, he himself did not belong to a tariqa ³. His muftiate and imamate are offices, and office never counts. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown, flagged, with both readings preserved in the record's note.

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