Sahaba - The Blessed

a certain degree in Tasawwuf as well. In 1302 he translated the
book Rashahât and then the book Maktûbât into Arabic. He also
wrote a biography of Imâm Rabbânî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’ in
Arabic).
Muhammad Murâd Munzâwî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’ was
another scholar. He did not translate Maktûbât into Arabic.
There are various ways to learn the facts about past people;
how they were, their knowledge and ignorance, their guidance and
aberration, etc. The first way is, for instance, if they founded a
madhhab or a regime, to study the institution they founded. The
second way is to read their works, books. The third way is to hear
people who are unprejudiced about them and who mention their
merits and imperfections objectively. Now we will study Imâm
Rabbânî ‘quddisa sirruh’ from these three viewpoints:
1– Imâm-i-Rabbânî, mujaddid wa munawwir alf-i-thânî,
Ahmad ibn Abd-il-Ahad, has an ancestral chain that reaches back
to the Amîr-ul-mu’minîn ’Umar-ul-Fârûq ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ with
the twenty-ninth paternal link. All his grandfathers were pious and
virtuous people, and each of them was a greatest scholar of his
time.
2– Implicit and indirect good news herald a person’s advent
before he is born. Adumbration of this sort does not clearly name
the person himself or his birthplace. An example is the news
foretelling the advent of Mahdî. The occasional false pretensions
to the name of Mahdî in recent history were merely attempts to
exploit this latency. The same rule applies to the news foretelling
our religious leaders (imâms). Examples of such news are the
following hadîth-i-sherîfs: “If the religion (Islam) fled the earth
and went to [the cluster of stars called] the Pleiades, a youngster of
Asiatic origin would apprehend it and bring it back.” “Men will get
into insoluble trouble and look for a scholar to solve their
problem. They will see that none is superior to the scholar (who
will be living) in Medîna-i-munawwara.” “Do not speak ill of the
Qoureishîs. A scholar of their descent will illuminate the entire
world with knowledge.” Of these hadîth-i-sherîfs, the first one
refers to Imâm a’zam Abû Hanîfa, (the founder and leader of the
Hanafî Madhhab,) the second one alludes to Imâm Mâlik bin
Enes, (the founder and leader of the Mâlikî Madhhab,) and the
third one foretells the advent of Imâm Shâfi’î, (the founder and
leader of the Shâfi’î Madhhab) ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum ajma’în’,
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