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A Mujaddid (Arabic: مجدد‎), renewer of the faith. According to the popular Muslim tradition, there arises a person at turn of every century of the Islamic calendar to revitalize the religion.[1] A Mujaddid might be a caliph, a saint (wali), a prominent teacher, a scholar or some other kind of influential person.

The concept is based on the following Prophetic tradition (hadith):

God shall raise for this Umma at the head of every century a man who shall renew (or revive) for it its religion. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Malahim, ch. 1.)

Certain Muslim scholars and saints have been considered mujaddids of a particular century in the history of Muslim religious and intellectual tradition. The most famous title bearer is Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi who is known as Mujaddid Alf Sani, which means "mujaddid of the second millennium". An attempt to delineate a list of mujaddids for every century of the Muslim calendar is a difficult task, since different Muslim sects and factions tend to designate different Mujaddids according to their own understanding and interpretation of Islam. There is no clear theological basis to determine whether a given figure has been a mujaddid. The issue remains mostly a matter of speculation, claims and counter-claims. In recent times, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the mujaddid of the 14th Islamic century,[2] but most mainstream Muslims consider him to be an apostate for some of his other claims. [3]

For Shia Muslims there is a general consensus for who this figure was in some centuries, but not for others.[1]

[edit] Disagreement

An eminent Muslim scholar, Muhammad Manzoor Nu'mani, maintains that the above hadith does not support the popular concept that a single Mujaddid will appear exactly at the turn of every century. His argument states that the pronoun used in the hadith is man "who", which can be used in both singular and plural sense. Additionally, at the time of Muhammad there was no Islamic calendar in use. It was devised after his demise, during the caliphate of Umar. This suggests that Muhammad was not referring to the centuries of the calendar that is in use today.[4]

[edit] Possible Mujaddids and claimants

Following the popular idea of a single mujaddid for every century, a list of possible mujaddids, or claimed to be mujaddids, can be drawn as follows.

1st Century (after the prophetic period) (August 3, 718)

2nd Century (August 10, 815)

3rd Century (August 17, 912)

4th Century (August 24, 1009)

5th Century (September 1, 1106)

6th Century (September 9, 1203)


7th Century

  • Taqiyuddin As-Subki (AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Abul Fadhl Jamaaluddeen Muhammad bin Afriqi Misri(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Shahbuddeen Suharwardi(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Abul Hassan Uzzuddeen Ali ibn Muhammad Ibn Atheer(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Akbar Muhi’yuddeen Muhammad ibn Arabi (AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )

8th Century (September 23, 1397)

  • Ibn Hajar Al Asqalani(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Tajuddeen Ibn Ata'ullah Sikandari(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Nizamuddin Auliya(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Umar bin Mas’ud Taftazani(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Saleh ibn Umar(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )

9th Century (October 1, 1494)

  • Jalaludin Suyuti(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Nuruddin ibn Ahmad Misri(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Muhammad ibn Yusuf Karmani (AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Shamsuddin Abu l-Khayr Muhammad ibn Abdurrahman Sakhawi(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Ali ibn Muhammad Jarmani(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )

10th Century (October 19, 1591)

11th Century (October 26, 1688)

12th Century

  • Abul Hassan Muhammad ibn Abdul Hadi (AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Abdul Ghani Tablisi
  • Aurangzeb
  • Ahmad "Mulla Jeevan"(AHLE SUNNAT WA AL-JAMA'ATH )
  • Muhammad Baqir Majlisi (Shia)[1]

13th Century

14th Century

15th Century

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Momen, Moojan, An Introduction to Shi'i Islam, Yale University Press, 1985, p.205
  2. ^ Claims and position of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, http://www.ahmadiyya.org/claims/intro.htm
  3. ^ Who Was the Impostor of Qadian? Decide for Yourself!! http://www.inter-islam.org/faith/qadian.htm#30%20Liars
  4. ^ Maulana Muhammad Manzoor Nu'mani, "Hadith-i-Tajdid ki Sharh aur Mujdiddiyyat ki Haqiqat" in Tazkira Mujaddid Alif Thani, Karachi: Dar al-Isha'at, 1978

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