The great scholar of Islamic
history, reformist and king Faisal Award winner Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi (
Ali Miyan) R.A. describe this situation of second hundred hijri in these words
in his book Tareekh e dawat o Azeemat vol 1(page 80-81) {its English
translation The saviors of Islamic sprit Vol1 .”}
“Islam has expanded to a vast and
fertile areas of Syria, IRAQ, Egypt and other African countries,Iran and
central Asia. Administration of country, Maashrat,(Society) business, has reached to a
complex situation. And it was urgent need to extraction and ISTANBAT and
interpretation of the fine details of these principles. For this important job
a very deep knowledge and understanding of Quran and sunnat and its practical
application to the current situation were required.”
Tareekh e dawat o Azeemat vol 1(page 80-81) {its English
translation The saviors of Islamic sprit Vol1 .}
Need for permanent
mechanism and its realization by Salfus Salihin
The Ulema and Mashaikh realized the
situation in time and hundreds of scholar started devouting themselves for this
noble cause. They took it as a permanent job. They were not only the famous
four Imam but so many others either working at different Islamic centers.May Allah
give them best reward.
IMAMS AND THEIR
COWORKERS WERE PEOPLE OF SPECIAL QUALITIES
Ali Miyan further writes in
his book
“It was bounty from Allah and
pinnacle of destiny (IQBAL MANDI) of ummate muslima that muslims got people of
special qualities for this important job.
Tareekh e dawat o Azeemat vol 1(page 80-81) {its English
translation The saviors of Islamic sprit Vol1 .}
.....................They were outstanding in knowledge of quran and sunnat,
intellectuality, piousness, piety,and Ikhlas. Thousands and thousand of such
person devouted their life for this noble and essenitial cause. There were more
scholar group but out of these four distinguished Imam emerged whose
Jurisprudence ruling were compiled in a systematic way and their ruling is
still alive and popular. These are Imam abu hanifa (Died 150 hijri,followed by
nearly 47 % of muslims). Imam shafai (Died 204 H followed by 29 %) Imam malik
(Died 179 H followed by 16 %),Imam Hanbal (Died 241H,followed by 3 %) . They
comprise nearly 96 % of the total Sunni muslim population of the world.
These Imams got very competent and uncomparable quality disciple.Imam Abu
Haneefa got Imam Abu yusuf,and Imam Muhammad,Imam Malik got Abdullah ibne
wahab,ibnil qasim,Imam shafai got Muzni and Rabi, and Imam Ahmad got Person
like Ibne Qadama.
Benefit of this system
They not only derived ruling but also compiled the basis of
ruling from quran and sunnat, Deviced principles that helped further generation
of ulema and scholar to derive rules from Quran and sunnat and to guide muslims
on all aspect of life, including finance and administration etc.
1This estimation of Hanafi shafaee Maliki Hanbali is refrenced to the
document THE 500 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS 2010 edition
by The Royal Islamic Strategic
Studies Centre Page no.16&18 and of Wikipedia and merely estimation. Some
of the other sources have estimated Hanafis more than 50% of the sunni
muslims.)
