Tabligh Guide — Page 64
(American Edition) 64 1. Abū Tammām (188 -231 A. H. /804-845 A. D. ), a poet, was referred to as Khātamush - Shu‘arā, that is , chief of the poets. ( Wafiyāt -ul- A‘yān, Vol. 1) 2. Abū Al - Ṭ ayyib (303-354 A. H. /915- 965 A. D. ) was also called Khātamush - Shu‘arā, that is, chief of the poets. (Muqaddimah Dīwān Al -Mutanabb ī , Printed in Egypt, p. 10) 3. Abdul ‘Alā Al - Ma‘arrī (363 -449 A. H. /973-1057 A. D. ) was also called Khātamush - Shu‘arā, that is, chief of the poets. (Muqaddimah Dīwān Al - Mutanabb ī , Printed in Egypt, p. 10) 4. Shaikh ‘Alī Ḥazīn (1113 -1180 A. H. /1701-1767 A. D. ) is considered to be the Khāt amush- Shu‘arā, that is, chief of the poets, of Hindustā n (subcontinent of India). ( Ḥayāt -i- Sa‘dī, p. 117) 5. Ḥabīb Shīrāzī is regarded as Khātamush - Shu‘arā, that is, chief of the poets, in Iran. ( Ḥayāt -i- Sa‘dī, p. 117) 6. Ḥ a ḍrat ‘Alī is Khātam -ul- Auliyā, Chief of friends of Allāh (that is, Chief of Saints). (Tafsīr Ṣāfī, Sūrah Al -A ḥzāb) 7. Imām Shāfi‘ī (150 -204 A. H. /767- 820 A. D. ) was Khātam -ul- Auliyā, Chief of the friends of Allāh (that is, Chief of Saints). (Tuḥ fatus-Sunniyyah, p. 45) 8. Shaikh Ibn-ul- ‘Ara bi (560-638 A. H. /1164- 1240 A. D. ) was Khātam -ul- Auliyā, Chief of the friends of Allāh (that is, Chief of Saints). (Title page of Futūḥāt Makkiyya) 9. Kāfūr was Khātam -ul- Kirām, Chief of the generous ones. (Sharḥ Dīwān Al - Mutanabbī, p. 304) 10. Imām Muḥ ammad ‘ Abdu of Egypt was Khātam -ul- A’immah, Chief of the leaders. (Tafsīr Al - Fātiḥ ah, p. 148) 11. Al-Sayyid A ḥ mad Al-Sunn ū s ī was Kh ātam -ul- Mujāhidīn, Chief of those who strive in the way of Allāh. (Akhbār Al - Jāmi‘ ah al- Islāmiyyah, Palestine; 27 Muharram, 1352 A. H. ) 12. A ḥmad bin Idrīs was called Khātam -ul- ‘Ulamā al -Mu ḥaqqiqīn, Chief of the Research Scholars. (Al-Aqd al- Nafīs) 13. Abdul-Fa ḍ l Al-Al ū s ī was called Khātam -ul-Mu ḥaqqiqīn, Chief of the Researchers. (Title pa ge of Tafsīr Rūḥ -ul- Ma‘ānī) 14. Shaikh-ul-Azhar Salīm al-Bashir ī was referred to as Khātam - ul - Mu ḥ addithīn, Chief of the Specialist in Ḥ adīth. (Al - Ḥ i r ā b , p. 372) 15. Imām Suyūtī (d. 911 A. H. /1505 A. D. ) was noted as Khātam -ul- Mu ḥaddithīn, Chief of the Speci alists in Ḥadīth. (Title page of Tafsīr Itqān)