Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
| Rashid Ahmad Gangohi رشید احمد گنگوہی |
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| Born | 1826 Gangoh, Uttar Pradesh, British India |
| Died | 1905 at age 78 Gangoh, Uttar Pradesh, British India |
| Nationality | India |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni Ansari |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Main interest(s) | Aqidah, Tafsir, Tasawwuf, Hadith, Fiqh |
| Notable idea(s) | Darul Uloom Deoband |
| Sufi order | Chishti (Sabiri-Imdadi) |
| Disciple of | Haji Imdadullah |
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Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Hidāyat Aḥmad Ayyūbī Anṣārī Gangohī (Urdu: رشید احمد بن ہدایت احمد ایوبی انصاری گنگوہی ; 1826 – 1905) was an Indian Deobandi Islamic scholar, a leading figure of the Deobandi movement, a Hanafi jurist and scholar of hadith.
Along with Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi he was a pupil of Mamluk Ali. Both studied the books of hadith under Shah Abdul Ghani Mujaddidi and later became Sufi disciples of Haji Imdadullah. His lectures on Sahih al-Bukhari and Jami` at-Tirmidhi were recorded by his student Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi, later edited, arranged, and commented on by Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, and published as Lami` ad-Darari `ala Jami` al-Bukhari and al-Kawkab ad-Durri `ala Jami` at-Tirmidhi.
In Tazkiratur Rashid his name and nasab is given as follows: Maulānā Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Maulānā Hidāyat Aḥmad ibn Qāẓī Pīr Bak͟hsh ibn Qāẓī G͟hulām Ḥasan ibn Qāẓī G͟hulām ‘Alī ibn Qāẓī ‘Alī Akbar ibn Qāẓī Muḥammad Aslam al-Anṣārī al-Ayyūbī. In the biographical work Nuzhat al-Khawatir he is mentioned with the nisbats "al-Anṣārī, al-Ḥanafī, ar-Rāmpūrī then al-Gangohī". In the introduction to al-Kawkab ad-Durri he is mentioned as "Mawlānā Abī Mas‘ūd Rashīd Aḥmad al-Anṣārī al-Ayyūbī al-Kankawhī al-Ḥanafī al-Jishtī an-Naqshbandī al-Qādirī as-Suhrawardī".
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