Religion Islam Jurisprudence Shafi'i Sufi order Naqshbandi Parents Ibrahim al-Sindhi. | Denomination Sunni Movement Sufism Died 3 February 1750, Hejaz Era 18th century | |
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Region present day Saudi Arabia Similar Muhammad ibn Abd al‑Wahhab, Badi' ud‑Din Shah al, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Hasan as‑Senussi | ||
Muhammad Hayyat ibn Ibrahim al-Sindhi (Arabic: محمد حياة بن ابراهيم السندي) (died 3 February 1750) was an Islamic scholar who lived during the period of the Ottoman Empire. He is noted as a teacher of the founder of the Wahhabi Movement, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. He belonged to the Naqshbandi order of Sufism.
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Education and scholarship
Al-Sindhi was born in a Adilpur village Ghottki Sind in present-day Pakistan and traveled locally to get his basic education. Then he migrated to Madinah and studied closely with Ibrahim al-Kurani and his son Muhammaad Tahir al-Kurani. Here, he was initiated into the Naqshbandi tariqa.
Notable students
One of his students was Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Najdi, whom he met in 1136 Hijri. It was Abdullah ibn Ibrahim ibn Sayf who introduced him to Hayyat al-Sindhi.
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Although trained in Hanafi fiqh, he was also a scholar of the Hanbali school.