Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi
| Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi محمد الیاس کاندھلوی |
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| 1st Amir of Tablighi Jamaat | |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi |
| Title | Hazrat Ji |
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Akhtar Ilyas 1885 (1302 Hijri year) Kandhla, North-Western Provinces, British India (in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) |
| Died | 13 July 1944 (1363 Hijri year) Nizamuddin, Delhi |
| Nationality | India |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Main interest(s) | Da'wah |
| Notable work(s) | Tablighi Jamaat |
| Alma mater | Darul Uloom Deoband |
| Sufi order | Chishti-Nizami |
| Disciple of | Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi, Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi |
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Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (Urdu: محمد الیاس بن محمد اسماعیل کاندھلوی دہلوی) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Sufi who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement.
He was Muhammad Ilyas ibn Muhammad Ismail, Kandhlawi (of Kandhla) by birth and origin, then Dihlawi (of Delhi).
Muhammad Ilyas was born in 1303 AH (1885/1886) in the village of Kandhla, Muzaffarnagar district, North-West Provinces, British India (in present-day Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh, India). His year of birth can be computed by the tarikhi (chronogrammatic) name "Akhtar Ilyas" (اختر الیاس) using abjad numerals.
He was the son of Muhammad Ismail and his second wife, Safiyah.
In a local maktab he memorized one and a quarter ajza' of the Qur'an, and he completed memorizing the Qur'an under his father in Nizamuddin area, Delhi. Thereafter, he studied the elementary books of Arabic and Persian language mostly under his father.
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