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

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Ramadan of the Elders
cussed with Ĥađrat anything from tarāwīĥ e.g. if someone had
corrected Ĥađrat incorrectly in tarāwīĥ or other such issues.
Ĥuffāż came from far away to listen to Ĥađrat in tarāwīĥ.
After I led tarāwīĥ, sometimes in Ĥakīm Isĥāq’s masjid and
sometimes when Amma Jī [Ĥađrat’s Sahāranpūrī’s wife] insisted,
in Ĥađrat’s house, I rushed to catch tarāwīĥ behind Ĥađrat. By
that time, Ĥađrat had usually completed four to six rak‘as, since
tarāwīĥ started early in Ĥakīm Isĥāq’s masjid and late [where
Ĥađrat led] in the school and in Dār al-Ţalaba. And then I also
recited really fast. Once, Ĥađrat started Sūrat al-Ţalāq and recited
the first aya,
‏ّسَ‏ اءَ‏
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ‏ إِذَا طَ‏ لَّقْتُمُ‏ النِ‏
I quickly corrected him,
‏ّسَ‏ اء
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِ‏ ينَ‏ اَمَنُوْا إِذَا طَ‏ لَّقْتُمُ‏ النِ‏
Ĥāfiż Muĥammad Ĥussain was Ĥađrat’s main listener. He came
every year from Ajrāra to spend Ramadan in Sahāranpūr. My
uncle [Shaikh Ilyās] and Shaikh ‘Abd al-Laţīf were also standing
behind Ĥađrat at the time. They all said in unison,
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِي
After tarāwīĥ, Ĥađrat laid down for a short while.
“Maulwī Zakariyyā, were you sleeping?” he asked.
I said, “No, not at all, Ĥađrat. But I thought that if all the
verbs in the aya are plural it must be Yā Ayyuha Alladhīna Āmanū
not Yā Ayyuha al-Nabiyy?” Ĥađrat Sahāranpūrī replied,
“You use analogy in the Qur’an?” I said,
“Ĥađrat, it’s the rules of philology [naĥw] not analogy.”
Once during tarāwīĥ Ĥāfiż Ĥussain made a mistake in
correcting Ĥađrat. I corrected him immediately thereafter. Ĥāfiż
Ĥussain realized he had made a mistake and said, “hāń [that’s
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