Mujaddid
A mujaddid (Arabic: مجدد), is an Islamic term for one who brings "renewal" (تجديد tajdid) to the religion.[3][4] According to the popular Muslim tradition, it refers to a person who appears at the turn of every century of the Islamic calendar to revive Islam, cleansing it of extraneous elements and restoring it to its pristine purity. In contemporary times, a mujaddid is looked upon as the greatest Muslim of a century.[5]
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The concept is based on a hadith (a saying of Islamic prophet Muhammad),[6] recorded by Abu Dawood, narrated by Abu Hurairah who mentioned that Prophet Muhammad said:
Allah will raise for this community at the end of every 100 years the one who will renovate its religion for it.
Ikhtilaf (disagreements) exist among different hadith viewers. Scholars such as Al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani have interpreted that the term mujaddid can also be understood as plural, thus referring to a group of people.[8][9]
Mujaddids can include prominent scholars, pious rulers and military commanders.[4]
List of claimants and potential mujaddids
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While there is no formal mechanism for designating a mujaddid in Sunni Islam, there is often a popular consensus. The Shia and Ahmadiyya[16][17] have their own list of mujaddids.[4]
First Century (after the prophetic period) (August 3, 718)
- Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (682–720)[18][19]
Second Century (August 10, 815)
- Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i (767–820)[19][20][1][21]
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855)[22]
Third Century (August 17, 912)
- Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870)[1]
- Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (874–936)[20][23]
Fourth Century (August 24, 1009)
- Abu Bakr Al-Baqillani (950–1013)[19][24]
- Hakim al-Nishaburi (933–1012)[1]
Fifth Century (September 1, 1106)
Sixth Century (September 9, 1203)
- Salauddin Ayyubi (1137–1193)[30]
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149–1210)[31]
- Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1206)[32][33]
Seventh Century (September 5, 1300)
- Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328)[34]
Eighth Century (September 23, 1397)
- Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292–1350)[35]
- Tamerlane (Timur) (1336–1405)[36]
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (1372–1448)[37]
Ninth Century (October 1, 1494)
Tenth Century (October 19, 1591)
- Selim I (1470-1520)[41]
- Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566)[42]
- Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624)[23][43]
- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1634–1720)[44]
Eleventh Century (October 26, 1688)
- Mulla Sadra Shirazi (1571–1640)[45][46]
- Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (1585–1671)[18]
Mahiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir (1618-1707)[47]
Twelfth Century (November 4, 1785)
- Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703–1762)[48]
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792)[49]
- Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732–1790)[38]
- Shah Abdul Aziz Delhwi (1745–1823)[50]
- Usman Dan Fodio (1754–1817)[51]
- Tipu Sultan (1750–1799)[52]
Thirteenth Century (November 14, 1882)
- Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905)[21]
- Said Nursî (1878–1960)[53]
- Syed Ahmad Khan (1817–1898)[54]
Fourteenth Century (November 21, 1979)
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908)[55][56][nb 1]
- Abul A'la Maududi (1903-1979)[15]
- Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (1914-1999)[60]
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Further reading
- Alvi, Sajida S. "The Mujaddid and Tajdīd Traditions in the Indian Subcontinent: An Historical Overview" ("Hindistan’da Mucaddid ve Tacdîd geleneği: Tarihî bir bakış"). Journal of Turkish Studies 18 (1994): 1–15.
- Friedmann, Yohanan. "Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi: An Outline of His Thought and a Study of His Image in the Eyes of Posterity". Oxford India Paperbacks