Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri

Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892–1981), was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author, and leader of the Sunni Barelvi movement following the death of its founder, his father Ahmed Raza Khan.^[3] He was known as Mufti-Azam-i-Hind to his followers.^[4] He is widely known as Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind.^[5] On his death date his follower celebrate Urs name as Urs-e-Noori on every 14th Muharram of Islamic Year.

His Eminence, Mufti-azam-i-Hind Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri Noori
مصطفى رضا خان القادري النوري
Born	(1892-07-18)18 July 1892 (22nd Dhu al-Hijjah 1310 AH) Bareilly, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died	11 November 1981(1981-11-11) (aged 90) (14 Muharram 1402 AH)[1] Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Grand Mufti of India
Era	Contemporary
Organization	Jama'at Raza-e-Mustafa
Known for	Fatawa-e-Mustafawia
Notable work	Fatawa-e-Mustafawia, 1977 (against vasectomy)
Style	Grand Mufti
Title	Grand Mufti of India
Predecessor	Ahmad Raza Khan Barelvi
Successor	Akhtar Raza Khan ,
Children	7[2]
Father	Ahmad Raza Khan
Relatives	Hamid Raza Khan Elder brother
Family	Barelvi family
Grand Mufti of India
Title	Mufti E Azam Hind, Tajdar E Ahlesunnat
Official name	مفتي جمهورية الهند، مفتى مصطفى رضا خان
Personal life
Home town	Bareilly
Children	7
Parent	Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (father)
Education	Manzar E Islam
Known for	Taqwa & Fatwa
Religious life
Denomination	Sunni Islam
Founder of	Darul Uloom Mazhar E Islam
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Maturidi
Movement	Barelvi
Senior posting
Teacher	Ahmad Raza Khan
Students Sardar Ahmad Chishti, Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, Qamaruzzaman Azmi
Influenced by Ahmed Raza Khan
Grand Mufti styles
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	The Honourable
Religious style	Mufti Azam-e-Hind, and Mufti al-Diyar al-Hindiyyah and Shaykh al-Islām
Alternative style	Hadrat, Sheikh and Sahib-ul-Ma'ali
Informal style	Mr. Grand Mufti

Lineage

					Naqi Ali Khan 1830-1880
		Ahmad Raza Khan 1856 -1921		Hassan Raza Khan 1859 -1908		Muhammad Raza Khan		3 Daughters
Hamid Raza Khan 1875 -1943		Mustafa Raza Khan 1892–1981		5 Daughters

Life

He wrote books on Islam in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and announced judgments on several thousand Islamic problems in his compilation of fatawa Fatawa-e-Mustafwia. Thousands of Islamic scholars were counted as his spiritual successors.^[6] He was the main leader of the Jama'at Raza-e-Mustafa in Bareilly, which opposed the Shuddhi movement to convert Muslims to Hinduism in pre-Partition India.^[6][7] During the time of emergency in 1977 in India, he issued a fatwa against vasectomy which was made compulsory and 6.2 million Indian men were sterilized in just a year.^[8] In such circumstances Mustafa Raza Khan argued this order of Indian government given by Indira Gandhi.^[9][10]

Works

Raza Khan's books include:^[11]

• Fatawa-e-Mustafawia 7Volumes (Religious rulings Mustafa Raza)
• Al Malfoozat of Ala Hazrat (Sayings of Ahmed Raza Khan)
• Saman-e-Bakhshish (Compilation of Islamic Poetry in the Honor of Prophet Muhammad)^[12][13]
• Taqiya Baazi (Hidden Faces of Wahhabism)
• Waqat-us-Sinan، Adkhal-us-Sinan، Qahr Wajid Diyan
• Turq-ul-Huda Wal Irshad Ilaa Ahkam Al Amara Wal Jehad
• Tasheeh Yaqeen Bar Khatm-e-Naiyeeen
• Tardush Shaitan An Sabee Lur Rehman (Fatwa Refuting Government of Saudi Arabia For Imposing Tax on Pilgrims in 1365 A.H)
• No Caste is Inferior

Disciples

His disciples include:^{[14][failed verification]}

• Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki^[15]
• Sayed Muhammad Ameen^[16]
• Muhammad Mujeeb Ashraf^[17]
• Mahmood Ahmad Razvi Quadri Ashrafi^{[citation needed]}
• Muhammad Idrees Raza Khan Qadri Razvi Hashmati^[17]
• Mohammed Akhtar Raza Khan Azhari^[16]
• Qamaruzzaman Azmi^{[citation needed]}
• Muhammad Afzal Husain^[16]
• Muhammad Husain^[16]
• Rehan Raza Khan^[16]
• Tehseen Raza Khan^[16]
• Sayed Noor Muhammad^[16]
• Zia Ul Mustafa^{[citation needed]}
• Shaykh Abdul Hadi Qaadri^[16]
• Ahmad Muqaddam Qaadri^[16]
• Badrul Qaadri^[16]
• Ghulam Sarwar Al Qaadri^[16]
• Mahmood Ahmad Qadri Rafaqati^{[citation needed]}
• Arshadul Qadri^{[citation needed]}
• Muhammad Ibrahim Raza^[16]
• Muhammed Abdul Hamid Palmer Razvi^[16]
• Muhammad Ghufraan Siddiqi^[16]
• Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui^{[citation needed]}
• Sayed Shah Shah Turab-ul-Haq^[16]
• Dr. Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Qadri
• Badruddin Ahmed Qadri
• Mufti Abdul Rashid Mufti e Azam Baraar
• Mufti Mujeeb Ali
• Allahma Akbar ali Rezvi
• Mufti Anwarul Hak Qadri

See also

• Urs-e-Noori
• List of students of Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri

References

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2. "Ghausul Waqt, Huzoor Mufti-e-Azam Hind, Mawlana Mustapha Raza Khan". taajushshariah.com. Marriage. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
3. Sanyal (1998).
4. Malik, Jamal (27 November 2007). Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror?. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 9781134107636. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2020. Among the guests at the ceremony were Maulana Mustafa Raza Khan of Bareilly (d. 1981), who was known to his followers as 'Mufti-Azam-i-Hind', and, second in importance ...
5. Razvi (2011).
6. Ridgeon, L. (2015). Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 187. ISBN 9781472532237. Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
7. Hasan, M.; Jamia Millia Islamia (India). Dept. of History (1985). Communal and pan-Islamic trends in colonial India. Manohar. ISBN 9780836416206. Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
8. Biswas, Soutik (14 November 2014). "India's dark history of sterilisation". BBC News. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
9. Arun Shourie, The World of Fatwas or the Sharia in Action, pg. 135. ASA Publications, 1995. ISBN 9788190019958
10. "Shajrah-E-Muqad'das of the Silsila Aaliyah Qaaderiyah Barakaatiyah Radawiyyah" (PDF). 11 April 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
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12. "Saman-e-Bakhshish – اسلامی شاعری و نعتیہ دیوان – – Sunni Library – Alahazrat Network". alahazratnetwork.org. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
13. "Saamaan e Bakhshish • Ridawiyyah". Ridawiyyah. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
14. "Muslim Scholar, Mufti Azam Hind Muhammad Mustafa Raza Khan Noori, Islamic Story in Urdu, Family Tree, Photoes, Date of Birth, Islamic Scholar – Ziaetaiba". www.ziaetaiba.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
15. امام دار البعثة السيد محمد بن علوي المالكي الحسني وآثاره في الفكر الاسلامي. دار الكتب العلمية،. 2010. p. 37. ISBN 9782745164469. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
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17. "Ashraful Fuqaha, Mufti-e-Azam Maharashtra, Mufti Muhammad Mujeeb Ashraf". ashrafulfuqaha.com. Famous Khulafa. Archived from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.

Bibliography

• Razvi, Moulana Muhammad Afthab Cassim, ed. (10 May 2011). Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind — Imam Mustapha Raza Khan (PDF). books.nafseislam.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 June 2020.
• Sanyal, Usha (July 1998). "Generational Changes in the Leadership of the Ahl-e Sunnat Movement in North India during the Twentieth Century". Modern Asian Studies. 32 (3). Cambridge University Press: 635–656. doi:10.1017/S0026749X98003059 (inactive 1 November 2024). JSTOR 313161.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)

Religious titles
Preceded by Amjad Ali Aazmi	Grand Mufti of India 20th century	Succeeded by Akhtar Raza Khan