At the age of 7, he completed the Hifz-i-Qur’an. Mulla Ahmad too liked this eponym for himself imitating his grandfather so much that he signed as Jeewan bin Abi Saeed.Īt the age of 4, he was put him to commit to his memory the Holy Qur’an. His grandfather was also called Jiyo as was the custom in those days, Jiyo or Jiwan means life and the word Jiyo was uttered as a prayer for long life in Hindi. His mother was the sister of Nawab Izzat Khan ( Real name Abdullah) who was a Mir-i-Aatish at the Royal Kitchen. His father Mulla Abu Saeed was a Hafiz, a Scholar and a successor of Shaikh Bahawal Haq known as a very noble soul. He was born on 25 Shaban 1047 Hijri (1636 AD) at Amethi. Even Mulla Jiwan himself has written about the family to be descended from Hazrat Salih AS So much so that in some books, the name of Mulla Jivan is mentioned as Mulla Jiwan Siddiqui which is absolutely wrong. Now for the last hundred years, I don’t know why a section of family has wrongly tried to associate the family with Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq. This family has been descended originally from Hazrat Abdullah Alambardar Makki who was descended from Prophet Hazrat Salih Alaih Salam and hence in all the family chronicles, the family surname is mentioned as Salihi. The first person who settled at Amethi was Shaikh Bahaul Haq Salihi Chishti who died in 922 Hijri. His genealogy goes like Shaikh Ahmad Bin Abu Saeed bin Ubaidullah bin Makhdoom Abdul Razzaq bin Shaikh Bahaul Haq Khasa-i-Khuda Al Hanafi, Al Makki, Al Swalehi, Amethvi, Al Hindi. He was amongst the descendants of Shaikh Bahaul Haq Chishti of Amethi. Amethi – on the left side is the complex of Bandagi Miyan A teacher of Emperor Aurangzeb, he was held in high esteem not because of his connection with the royal court but because of his erudition, piety, and simplicity. His famous work Noor ul-Anwar is still widely used as a textbook in Usool ul-Fiqh throughout the Islamic world. Shaikh Ahmad son of Abu Saeed of Amethi ( Lucknow ) popularly known as Mulla Jeevan Amethvi was one the most prolific scholars of Islamic learning during the late Mughal era. 979 Hijri ) were the famous saints, the sanctity of Bandagi Miyan was so widely known that the town itself is known as Bandagi Miyan ki Amethi or Amethi Bandagi Miyan even to this day. In the days of Akbar, Shaikh Bahaul Haq (D.922 AH) and Hazrat Nizamuddin Chishti Alias Bandagi Miyan (D. A town of antiquity, famous for its saints, located 17 miles away from Lucknow. Mausoleum of Mulla Jivan at Amethi Amethi They were not just being centers of literary tradition but equally perpetuated an intellectual environment through the production of men of learning. Awadh and its Qasbas as a whole stand out in terms of intellectual heritage, significance, and contribution towards learning.
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