Najmul Millat
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Faqih
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(Islamic jurist), and trained several Ulama
Ulama
-In Islam:* Ulema, also transliterated "ulama", a community of legal scholars of Islam and its laws . See:**Nahdlatul Ulama **Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama **Jamiatul Ulama Transvaal**Jamiat ul-Ulama -Other:...
such as Sibte Hasan Naqvi, Farman Ali, Mohammad Haroon, Mohammad Dawood, Kifayat Hussain, Adeel Akhtar, and Jaffer Hussain. They all did Mumtazul Afazil from Jamia Nazmia
Jamia Nazmia
Jamia Nazmia is one of the leading centres of Shia Islamic education in the city of Lucknow, India. It was founded on the 8th Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1308 Hijri making it the oldest Shia religious institution of India.-Administration:...
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He was born on 25 May 1863 (6th Dhu'l Hijjah 1279) to Akbar Hussain of Amroha
Amroha
Amroha is a small town in the north-western Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. It is located north-west of Moradabad, near the Sot River...
. Najmul Hasan was a favorite disciple and son-in-law of Muhammad Abbas Shushtri al-Jazairi. Muhammad Abbas was the teacher of Hamid Husain and Abul Hasan. Muhammad Abbas was also a contemporary of the author of Jawahir (a famous book on Fiqh).
Najmul Millat studied all the higher faculties, including fiqh and Uṣūl al-fiqh
Usul al-fiqh
Uṣūl al-fiqh is the study of the origins, sources, and principles upon which Islamic jurisprudence is based. In the narrow sense, it simply refers to the question of what are the sources of Islamic law...
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
under the guidance of Hasan urf Abbu Sahib qibla and Muhammad Abbas. He was a contemporary of Ziauddin al-Iraqi, Kazim Tabatabai Yazdi and Abul Hasan Isfehani. Himself a Faqih of the first rank, he trained several Ulama like Sibte Hasan, Adeel Akhtar and Kitayat Husain. He will ever be remembered for his services to the Shi'a of Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
, Burma, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and countries in the West rendered through the missionaries trained in his Jamia Nazmia. He wrote several books.
Najmul Millat died on 18 April 1938 (17th Safar 1351). He had two sons, Muhammad (author of "Islam in the Light of Shiism") and Kazim. Mohammad was the founder of Madrasatul Waizeen
Madrasatul Waizeen
Madrasatul Waizeen is a centre of Shia Islamic education in the city of Lucknow, India.In The Muslim Review: An English Monthly Magazine Of Madrasatul Waizeen, volume XI, number 3 an ad on the inside of the front cover describes the Madrasatul Waizeen, Lucknow:-Foundation and development:The...
. He had two sons - Mohd Zaki and Mohd Razi. Kazim also had two sons - the translators Mohammad Sadiq and Mohammad Mohsin. Jawad Husain Abidi (Mumtazul Afazil from Jamia Nazmia
Jamia Nazmia
Jamia Nazmia is one of the leading centres of Shia Islamic education in the city of Lucknow, India. It was founded on the 8th Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1308 Hijri making it the oldest Shia religious institution of India.-Administration:...
) was the son-in-law of Najmul Millat. Nasir Husain Abidi was the son of Jawad Husain.
Najmul Millat's great grandson is Syed Hamidul Hasan, Principal of Jamia Nazmia and great-great-grandson Faridul Hasan, its former principal.