:Fateh Muhammad Panipati

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|honorific_prefix= Qari

|name= Fateh Muhammad Panipati

|religion = Islam

|image = Fateh Muhammad Panipati.jpg

|caption =

|nationality= Pakistani

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|01|18|df=y}}

|birth_place = Panipat, British Raj

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1987|04|16|1905|01|18}}

|death_place = Medina, Saudi Arabia

|alma_mater = Darul Uloom Deoband

|resting_place = Al-Baqi Cemetery

|students = Abdul Haleem Chishti

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Fateh Muhammad Panipati (18 January 1905 – 16 April 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar who worked in the field of qira'at (Qur'an recitation methods). He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband and wrote books including Al-Qurrah al-Marḍiyyah and Inayate Rahmani.

Biography

Fateh Muhammad Panipati was born on 18 January 1905 (coinciding 12 Dhu al-Qadah 1322 AH) in Panipat.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=236}} He graduated in the traditional dars-e-nizami from the Darul Uloom Deoband.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=237}} His teachers included Asghar Hussain Deobandi, Hussain Ahmad Madani, Ibrahim Balyawi, Izaz Ali Amrohi and Muhammad Shafi.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=240}}

In 1947, when Pakistan was established, Panipati migrated there and briefly taught in Ichhra and Pind Dadan Khan.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=238}} He taught at Madrasah Ashrafiyyah Fayḍ al-Qurʾān in Shikarpur from 1948 to 1956.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=238}} He moved to Karachi in 1957 at the invitation of Muhammad Shafi Deobandi,{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=239}} and taught at the Nanak Wara branch of Darul Uloom Karachi,{{Sfn|Usmani|2020|p=38}} for over fifteen years.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=239}} He was considered a senior scholar of Quranic recitation during his time. Taqi Usmani has described him as the contemporary al-Jazari.{{Sfn|Usmani|2020|p=39}} His students included Abdul Haleem Chishti, Abdush Shakoor Tirmizi, Raheem Bakhsh Panipati and Siddiq Ahmad Bandwi.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|pp=241–244}}

Panipati migrated to Medina in 1972 and began teaching in the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi. He spent the last few years of his life in Medina.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|p=239}} He visited Lahore for a short while where he suffered from hemiparesis on 20 May 1979, leading him to return to Medina.{{Sfn|Baqa|2006|p=333}} He died on 16 April 1987 and was buried in Al-Baqi Cemetery. His funeral prayer was led by Ali ibn Abdur-Rahman al Hudhaify.{{Sfn|Baqa|2006|p=333}}

Literary works

Panipati wrote seventeen books in Urdu. He wrote Inayate Rahmani, a commentary on al-Qasim ibn Firruh's Ḥirz alAmānī wa Wajh al-Tahānī, commonly known as al-Shatibiyyah.{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|pp=235–236}} His other works include:{{Sfn|al-Barmawi|2000|pp=235–236}}

Al-Qurrah al-Marḍiyyah
Ashal al-Mawārid fī Sharḥ ʿAqīlat Atrāb al-Qaṣāʾid
Miftāḥ al-Kamāl
Nūrānī Qāʿidah
Tashīl al-Qawāʿid
ʿUmdat al-Mabānī

See more

List of Deobandis

References

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{{cite book |last1=Baqa |first1=Muhammad Mazhar |title=Hayat-e-Baqa awr Kuchh Yaadein |date=April 2006 |publisher=Zawwar Academy Publications |location=Karachi |language=ur}}
{{cite journal |last1=Usmani |first1=Muhammad Taqi |title=YādeiN |journal=Al-Balagh |date=September 2020 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=38–39 |trans-title=Memoirs |publisher=Darul Uloom Karachi |location=Karachi |language=ur}}
{{cite book |last1=al-Barmawi |first1=Ilyas ibn Ahmad |title=إمتاع الفضلاء بتراجم القراء فيما بعد القرن الثامن الهجري |date=2000 |publisher=Dār al-Nadwah al-ʿĀlimiyyah |location=Medina |volume=1 |pages=236–246 |language=ar |chapter=فتح محمد}}