- Source: Abdur Rab Jaunpuri
ʿAbd ar-Rabb Jaunpūrī (Urdu: عبد الرب جونپوری, Bengali: আব্দুর রব জৌনপুরী; 1875 – June 1935) was an Indian Muslim scholar, author and teacher. He was associated with Taiyuni reformist movement, founded by his grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri, and succeeded his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri as the leader of the movement in 1899.
Early life and education
Abdul Rab Jaunpuri was born in 1875 to a scholarly Indian Muslim family in Mullatola, Jaunpur, located in the North-Western Provinces of the British Raj. His father, Hafiz Mahmud Jaunpuri, traced his ancestry to the Arab tribe of Quraysh, with Jaunpuri being a 37th-generation direct descendant of Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun caliph. Jaunpuri's grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri was the founder of the Taiyuni reformist movement and propagated Islam in north India and Bengal. His great grandfather, Abu Ibrahim Shaykh Muhammad Imam Bakhsh ibn Shaykh Jarullah was a student of Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi. Many of his family members were also Islamic scholars, for example, his uncles Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri and Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri, and his cousin Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri.
Jaunpuri's father died when he was five years old, so he was brought up and educated by his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri. He memorised the Qur'an in his childhood, and studied the Arabic and Persian languages. He was said to have mastered the knowledge of ma'rifa.
Career
Jaunpuri worked alongside his uncle in establishing numerous religious institutions in Daulatkhan in the Bengali island of Bhola. He established a langar khana which provided meals to needy people in the area. Jaunpuri toured many different parts of Bengal, giving public lectures, where he gained a large following. Notable locations include Sandwip and Barisal. He also wrote books in Urdu such as Nafeul Khalaiq. Many of the next generation of Islamic scholars were his murids such as Muhammad Ishaq and Abul Hasanat Muhammad Abdul Hayy.
Death
Jaunpuri died in June 1935 in his home neighbourhood of Mullatola in Jaunpur, then located under the United Provinces of British India.
Spiritual genealogy
His spiritual genealogy is as follows:
Prophet Muhammad
Abū Bakr
Salmān al-Fārisī
Al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr
Jaʿfar bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī aṣ-Ṣādiq
Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr al-Bisṭāmī
Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Kharaqānī
Abū ʿAlī Faḍl bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Fārmadī
Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī
ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Ghijdawānī
Khwājah Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Riwgarī
Khwājah Maḥmūd al-Anjīr al-Faghnawī
ʿAzīzān ʿAlī ar-Rāmitānī
Sayyid Shams ad-Dīn Amīr Kulāl
Muḥammad Bābā as-Samāsī
Sayyid Bahā ad-Dīn Naqshband
Sayyid Mīr ʿAlā ad-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
Yaʿqūb Charkhī
Khwājah ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār
Khwājah Muḥammad Zāhid Wakhshī
Khwājah Darwesh Muḥammad
Khwājah Muḥammad Amkingī
Khwājah Raḍī ad-Dīn Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh
Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī
Sayyid Ādam bin Nūrī
Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Akbarābādī
Shāh ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm Dehlawī
Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī
Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dehlawī
Sayyid Aḥmad Shahīd
Karāmat ʿAlī bin Abī Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Imām Bakhsh bin Jār Allāh al-Jaunpūrī
Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī
ʿAbd ar-Rabb bin Maḥmud bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī