Yah'ya
Kandhlavi, Maulana Muhammad
b. Muharram 1, 1288HI March 23,1871
d. Ziqa'ad
10,1334H/ September 9,1916
He was the elder brother of Hazrat Maulana Muhammad
IIyas RAHMATULLAH A'LAlHE, and was his teacher as well. He is the father of
Sheikh-ul-Hadees Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya RAHMATULLAH A'LAlHE,
He memorised
the Holy Qur'an in the age of seven, and got religious education from
Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband, He was the special servant of Hazrat Gangohi RAHMATULLAH A'LAlHE Hazrat Gangohi RAHMA11JLLAH A'LAllIE also loved him very much and used
to say that 'Molvi Yah'ya is my eyes'. He had such a grip on Arabic literature
that he very frankly wrote in Arabic prose and poetry.
He was a man of very
pleasant personality: with smiling face in the day, and weeping eyes in the
night. Completing the recitation of one Qur'an was his daily routine. He was a
trendsetter in teaching Hadees and taught in the madrasah without pay, and used
to bind books to earn his living.
