TheRamadan of Shaykh Al-Hadith Ml ZakariyyaKandelwi by Dr Muhammad Ismail Memon Madani

the ramadan of shaikh muĤ ammud zakariyyĀ
was young and in good health, I filled myself up in seĥr. Once, the
subject came up in Ĥađrat’s gathering that Zakariyyā does not eat in
ifţār. Ĥađrat replied, “How is he going to eat in ifţār, when his habit
is to eat no more than is required to keep himself alive.”
11. Aside from the last two years of Ĥađrat’s life in which time
he became frail and sick, he always led the tarāwīĥ himself. After
the Dar al-Ţalaba [old complex] was built, my father [Shaikh
Yaĥyā] led the tarāwīĥ in the first year under Ĥađrat’s orders.
After that, it was Ĥađrat’s routine to lead tarāwīĥ himself.
12. It was his habit to finish the Qur’an on the 29th. He recited
1¼ part the first few days and then one part until the end.
An Amazing incident about Shāh ‘Abd al-Qādir in
Tarāwīĥ
It is known about Shāh ‘Abd al-Qādir 52 that he recited two parts on
the first of Ramadan if it was 29 days, and one part if it was thirty.
After Shāh ‘Abd al-‘Azīz 53 led tarāwīĥ in his masjid, he sent out a
person to investigate, asking “Did my brother recite one part or
two today.” If he recited two, he [Shāh ‘Abd al-‘Azīz] would say,
“This Ramadan will have twenty-nine days.”
This is clairvoyance [kashf], not knowledge of the unseen.
13. After tarāwīĥ, Ĥađrat rested for 15 to 20 minutes in the
school. At this time, his helpers massaged his feet and they dis-
52 Shāh ‘Abd al-Qādir Dehlawī (1754-1815) was Shāh Walī Allāh’s third son.
He spent forty years of his life in i‘tikāf in the masjid and was the first to translate
the Qura’n into Urdu.
53 Shāh ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Dehlawī (1746-1824) was the eldest son of Shāh Walī
Allāh Dehlawī. He was talented as a a jurist, hadith master, and exegete. He was
also outstanding in verse and prose and was a talented archer, horseman, and
calligrapher. In taśawwuf, he was a successor of his father and combined the
beautiful qualities of fortitude, kindness, humility, and love etc. The Shiites
made two attempts to poison and kill him after he wrote, Tuĥfa Ithnā’ ‘Ashariyya,
a comprehensive treatise on Shiism. It is said that his funeral prayer was prayed
fifty-five times.
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