Muhammad Hayyat ibn Ibrahim al-Sindhi

{{short description|18th-century Islamic scholar}}

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| name = Muhammad Hayyat ibn Ibrahim Al-Sindi

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| birth_place = Ghotki, Sindh, Mughal Empire

| death_date = {{death date|df=y|1750|02|03}}

| death_place = Hijaz, Jeddah Eyalet, Ottoman Empire

| era = 18th century

| region = present day Kufa

| denomination = Sunni

| jurisprudence = Hanafi

| movement = Sufism{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dKK0_bM-4n8C&q=Hayat |title= The Deobandi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Taqleed in the name of Imam Abu Hanifa |last=Allen |first=Charles |date= 2009-03-01 |publisher= Da Capo Press |isbn= 978-0786733002 |language= en}}

| Sufi_order = Naqshbandi

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| influences = Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Qayyim{{Cite book |last=Haj |first=Samira |title=Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity |publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8047-5250-3 |location=Stanford, California |pages=16 |chapter=1: The Islamic Reform Tradition}}

| influenced = Wahhabi, Deobandi, Ahl-i Hadith, Salafiyya and various Islamic Reform movements{{Cite journal|last=M. Naf'i|first=Basheer|date=2006|title=A Teacher of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb: Muḥammad Ḥayāt al-Sindī and the Revival of Asḥāb al-Ḥadīth's Methodology|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40377907|journal=Islamic Law and Society|publisher=Brill Publishers|volume=13|issue=2|pages=208–241|doi=10.1163/156851906776917552 |jstor=40377907 |quote="... it is perhaps impossible to understand the evolution of the Wahhabi and other modern Salafi currents without understanding the contribution of 'ulamda such as Muhammad Hayat al Sindi."}}{{Cite journal|last=Voll|first=John|date=1975|title=Muḥammad Ḥayyā al-Sindī and Muḥammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab: An Analysis of an Intellectual Group in Eighteenth-Century Madīna |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/614196 |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|volume=38|issue=1|pages=32–39|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00047017 |jstor=614196 }}

| creed = Athari{{Cite journal|last=M. Naf'i|first=Basheer|date=2006|title=A Teacher of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb: Muḥammad Ḥayāt al-Sindī and the Revival of Asḥāb al-Ḥadīth's Methodology Section: The Return of Ashab al Hadith |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40377907|journal=Islamic Law and Society|publisher=Brill Publishers|volume=13|issue=2|pages=234–239|jstor=40377907}}

| students = Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Salim al-Saffarīnī
Muhammad b. Sadiq al-Sindi
Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-

San'aani{{Cite journal|last=Voll|first=John|date=1975|title=Muḥammad Ḥayyā al-Sindī and Muḥammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab: An Analysis of an Intellectual Group in Eighteenth-Century Madīna |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/614196 |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|volume=38|issue=1|pages=32–39|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00047017 |jstor=614196 |quote= "Many of his students became men of some importance... Although Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab is now the best-known 'revivalist' among his students, he was not the only student with that approach. The others included... Muhammad al-Saffarini, who came to dominate Hanbali scholarship in: Nablus, one of the smaller centres of the madhhab."}}{{Cite journal|last=M. Naf'i|first=Basheer|date=2006|title=A Teacher of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb: Muḥammad Ḥayāt al-Sindī and the Revival of Asḥāb al-Ḥadīth's Methodology|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40377907|journal=Islamic Law and Society|publisher=Brill Publishers|volume=13|issue=2|pages=235|jstor=40377907 |quote="Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab was not the only student of al-Sindhi, and on an intellectual level, others may have been no less influential. Among them is Muhammad b. Sadiq al-Sindi (known also as Abu al-Hasan al-Sindi the younger, 1125-87/1713-73) .... Another eminent student of Hayat al-Sindi is Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Salim al-Saffarini (1114-88/ 1702-74) ... Another student of Hayat al-Sindi, and a major figure in early modern Islamic culture, is Muhammad b. Isma'il al-Hasani al-San'ani (known also as Ibn al-Amir al-San'ani, 1099-1182/1688- 1768)... "}}

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Muhammad Hayyat al-Sindhi ({{langx|sd|محمد حيات سنڌي}}) (died 3 February 1750) was an Islamic scholar who lived during the period of the Ottoman Empire.

He belonged to the Naqshbandi order of Sufism.John L. Esposito (edited by), The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press (2004), p. 296{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nE1DAQAAIAAJ|title=Islamic Law and Society|date=2006-01-01|publisher=E.J. Brill|page=216|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2aAGBT5XTAC|title=Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity|last=Haj|first=Samira|date=2008-10-02|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804769754|page=214|language=en}}