Mujaddid

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A Mujaddid (Arabic: مجدد‎), according to the popular Muslim tradition, refers to a person who appears at turn of every century of the Islamic calendar to revive Islam, remove from it any extraneous elements and restore it to its pristine purity. A mujaddid might be a caliph, a saint (wali), a prominent teacher, a scholar or some other kind of influential person.

The concept is based on the following Prophetic tradition (hadith):

"Allah shall raise for this Umma at the head of every century a man who shall renew (or revive) for it its religion."^[1]

Shah Waliullah, a 18th century Sunni Islamic scholar stated ^[2]

List of possible Mujaddids and claimants

First Century (after the prophetic period) (August 3 718)

• Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn ‘Ubaydullah ibn Shihab az-Zuhri
• Imam Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man (699 - 767) (Arabic: أبو حنيفة النعمان‎)
• Amir al-Mu'minin Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (682 - 720) (Arabic: عمر بن عبدالعزيز‎)

• Ibn Sirin (8th century) (Arabic: ابن سيرين‎)

Second Century (August 10 815)

• Imam Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i (767 - 820) (Arabic: محمد بن إدريس الشافعي‎)
• Hasan al-Basri (642 - 728 or 737) (Arabic: الحسن البصري‎)
• Muhammad ibn Shaibani
• Imam Malik ibn Anas (715 - 796) (Arabic: مالك بن أنس‎)
• Yahya ibn Ma'in

Third Century (August 17 912)

• Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780 - 855) (Arabic: أحمد بن حنبل‎)
• Al-Nasa'i
• Ibn Surayj
• Abul Hasan bin Umar

Fourth Century (August 24 1009)

• Abu Bakr Baqlani
• Abu Haatim Raazi
• Abu Jafar ibn Jarir Tabri
• al-Bayhaqi
• Tahtaawi
• Isma’eel bin Hammaad Ja’fari

Fifth Century (September 1 1106)

• Abdul-Qadir Gilani
• Abu Naeem Isfahani
• Hussain bin Raaghib
• Al-Ghazali (1058–1111) (Arabic: الغزالي‎)

Sixth Century (September 9 1203)

• Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Garibnawaz
• Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Seventh Century

• Taqiyuddin As-Subki
• Abul Fadhl Jamaaluddeen Muhammad bin Afriqi Misri
• Shahbuddeen Suharwardi
• Abul Hassan Uz’zuddeen Ali bin Muhammad Ibn Atheer
• Sheikh Akbar Muhi’yuddeen Muhammad ibn Arabi

Eighth Century (September 23 1397)

• Ibn Hajar Asqalani
• Taaj’uddeen bin Ata’ullah Sikandari
• Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya Mahboob-e-Ilahi
• Umar bin Mas’ood Taftazaani
• Saleh ibn Umar

Ninth Century (October 1 1494)

• Jalaludin Suyuti
• Nooruddeen bin Ahmad Misri
• Muhammad bin Yusuf Karmani
• Shamsuddeen Abul Kheyr Muhammad bin Abdur Rahmaan Sakhawi
• Sayed Shareef Ali bin Muhammad Jarmaani

Tenth Century (October 19 1591)

• Shahabuddeen Abu Bakr Ahmad bin Muhammad Khatib Qistalaani
• Muhammad Sharbini
• Muhammad Ar Ramli
• Muhammad Taahir Muhaddith

Eleventh Century (October 26 1688)

• Alf Sani Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi
• Haramain Dehlani
• Al-Qutb Imam al-Haddad of Hadramawt, Yemen
• Ibrâhîm ibn H.asan al-Kurdî al-Kawrânî al-Madanî
• Ali bin Sultaan Qaari

Twelfth Century

• Mawlana Imam Abul Hassan Muhammad bin Abdul Haadi
• Abdul Ghani Taablisi
• Abul Muzaffar Muhiuddin Muhammad Aurangzeb Bahadur Alamgir
• Sheikh Ahmad Mulla Jeewan

Thirteenth Century

• Shah Abdullah alias Ghulam Ali Dehlavi Naqshbandi
• Ahmad bin Ismaeel Tahtaawi
• Shah Abdul Azeez Muhaddith-e-Delhwi

Fourteenth Century

• Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Qadri.
• Hadrat Fazali Ali Shah Qureshi Naqshbandi

Fifteenth Century

• Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad Tahir Abbasi Naqshbandi
• Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi
• Shaykh ul Islam Hazrat Allama Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri
• Sheikh Yusef al-Eyerie
• Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani

References

1. ^ Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Malahim, ch. 1.
2. ^ Izalat al-Khafa p. 77 part 7