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A Mujaddid (Arabic: مجدد), in Islamic tradition, refers to a person who, Muslims believe, is sent by God in the first half of every century of the Islamic calendar.

As it says in the hadith:

"Allah shall raise for this Umma at the head of every century a man who shall renew (or revive) for it its religion" (Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Malahim, ch. 1.)

The mujaddid's objective is to revive Islam, remove from it any extraneous elements and to restore it to its pristine state. A Mujaddid might be a caliph, saint (wali), a prominent teacher, a scholar or some other kind of influential person.

It should be clear that there are a wide range of opinions about the identity of the mujaddid for any given century but to a large degree, Muslims can agree that even if they were not the Mujaddid of their day, the overwhelming majority of the candidates listed below were great orthodox scholars who made positive contributions to Islam.


[edit] List of Possible Mujaddids and Claimants

1st Century (after the prophetic period) (3 Aug., 718 C.E.)

2nd Century (10 Aug. 815)

3rd Century (17 Aug. 912)

  • Abu Sharh
  • Al-Nasai
  • Ibn Surayj

4th Century (24 Aug. 1009)

  • Imam Abu Haamid al-Ghazali
  • `Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
  • Abu Bakr Baqlani
  • Abû Hâmid al-Isfarâyînî
  • Abu Ubaid Naishapuri
  • Hakim al-Nishaburi
  • Imam Abu Haatim Raazi
  • Imam Abu Jaafar bin Jareer Tibri
  • Imam al-Bayhaqi
  • Imam Tahtaawi

5th Century (1 Sept. 1106)

  • Al Sayyid Abdul Qadir Jilani
  • Imam Abul Hussain Ahmed bin Muhammad Abi Bakr-il-Qaadir,
  • Imam Abu Naeem Isfahani
  • Imam Hussain bin Raaghib

6th Century (9 Sept. 1203)

7th Century (15 Sept. 1300)

8th Century (23 Sept. 1397)

9th Century (1. Oct, 1494)

10th Century (19 Oct. 1591)

  • Al-Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi
  • Imam Shahabuddeen Abu Bakr Ahmad bin Muhammad Khatib Qistalaani
  • Imam Muhammad Sharbini
  • Imam Muhammad Ar Ramli

11th Century (26 Oct., 1688)

12th Century (4 Nov., 1785)

13th Century (12 Nov. 1882)

  • Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (also claimed to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, rejected by Ahlus Sunnah group)
  • Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan al Barelwi
  • Allamah Imam Ahmad bin Ismaeel Tahtaawi
  • Allamah Shah Abdul Azeez Muhaddith-e-Delhwi
  • al-Qâd.î H.usayn ibn Muh.ammad al-Ans.ârî al-Khazrajî al-Sa`dî al-Yamânî
  • Amadou Bamba
  • Bediüzzaman Said Nursi
  • Nawâb S.iddîq H.asan Khân Bhûpâlî al-Qinnawjî
  • Taqiuddin al-Nabhani
  • Shaykh Badr al-Dîn al-H.asani
  • Shaykh Muhammad Zahid ibn Hasan al-Kawthari
  • Syyed 'Ab'ul Bari al-Hasani wa'l-Hussaini
  • Sayyid Nadhîr Husayn

14th Century (21 Nov. 1979)

Note:

Imam Abu Haamid al-Ghazali is widely considered to be the mujaddid of the fifth century AD.

Imam Hasan Al-Banna is also widely accepted as the mujaddid of the 14th century AD.

Beddiuzzaman said Nursi is considered to be the mujaddid of 13th Century by some Muslim (especially Turkish Muslims).

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad not considered to be Muslim by Most Muslims.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is accepted as the mujaddid (even a messiah) by Ahmaddiya group, but rejected by Ahlus Sunnah group

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