By Shaykh Uwais Namazi
Sheikh Ahmad ʿAlī Diwān Lājpūrī (1919-2011)
This obituary was inspired by Dr. Akram Nadwī’s speech at Masjid al-Falah (Leicester) on Saturday 12 March 2011, a day after the Sheikh’s funeral. His Urdu speech can be downloaded from here: http://bit.ly/k6S1am
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[I relate to] Shaykh Aḥmed ʿAlī al-Lājpūrī as-Sūrtī – ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Amrohī – Faḍl ar-Raḥmān ibn Ahl Allāh aṣ-Ṣiddīqī – ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Aḥmed ibn ʿAbd ar-Rahīm ad-Dehlavī (a.k.a Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz) – from his father: Shāh Walī Allāh – Abū Ṭāhir al-Kurdī – Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī – Ṣafī ad-Dīn Aḥmad al-Qushāshī – Aḥmad ash-Shinnāwī – Shams ad-Dīn Muḥammad ar-Ramlī – Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī – Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī – al-Buhrān Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm at-Tannūkhī – Abū al- ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥajjār – Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mubārak az-Zabīdī – Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿIsā al-Harawī as-Sijzī – Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar ad-Dāwūdī al-Būshanjī – Aḥmad ibn Ḥamūyah as-Sarakhsī – Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar al-Firabrī – Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī – Ismāʿīl ibn ‘Abī ‘Uways – Mālik ibn ‘Anas – Hishām ibn ʿUrwah – his father: ʿUrwat ibn az-Zubayr – ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ: