My Memoirs Part 2b- My teachers and the books I studied with them.

 

My teachers and the Books which I studied with them

Normally, because of an objective to pass the exam, time did not allow me to complete reading each and every book in the syllabus. Therefore I have marked ( C ) meaning ‘complete’ after such books which I have read from the beginning to the end. Otherwise, I have read selected parts of it. It mostly applies to the six Hadith collection which I was able to study  completely later in Medinah or after my arrival in London in 1976.

A.      My Father: Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar Hasan

·         Tafsir: 1. Al-Baidawi & Jalalain

·         Hadith: 2. Sahih Muslim, 3. Sunan Tirmidhi, 4. Sunan Al-Nasa’I, 5. Sunan Abu Dawood, 6. Sunan Ibn Majah, 7. Riyad-ul-Salihin

·         Usul Hadith: 8. Nukhbat-ul-Fikr ( C ), 9. Muqaddima Ibn al-Salah ( C )

·         Usul Tafsir: 10. Al-Fauz Al-Kabir

·         11. Al-Ba’ith Al-Hadith ( C ) in Madinah

·         Islamic Philosophy: 12. Hujjatullah Al-Baligha, 13. Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun, six parts ( C ), 15. Shazah Shuzoor al-Dhahab ( C )

·         Arabic Eloquence: 16. Al-Balaghat-ul-Waziha ( C )

·         Arabic Prose: 17. Al-Qira’at-ul-al-Rashida, 3 parts ( C ), 18. Al-Nazarat by Al-Manfaluti ( C )

·         Arabic Poetry: 19. Diwan al-Hamasa, 20. Al-Mu’allaqat al-Saba, 21. Diwan al-Mutanabbi

·         The History of Arabic Literature: 22. Tarikh al-Adab Al-Arabi ( C )

·         Logic: 23. A booklet on logic ( C )

·         Islamic history: 24. Tarikh al-Umam al-Islamia by Al-Khuzari ( C ), 25. Tarikh al-Khulafa by Al-Suyuti ( C )

·         Fiqh: 26. Kanz-al-Daqa’iq

 

B.      Sheikh Abdullah Verowalvi

27. Sahih al-Bukhari

28. Mu’atta Imam Malik

 

C.      Sheikh Ghulam Ahmad Al-Hariri

·         Fiqh: 29. Bidaya-tul-Mujtahid

·         Tafsir: 30. Al-Jalalain

·         Arabic prose: 31. Maqamat al-Hariri

·         Arabic poetry: 32. Diwan al-Mutanabi

 

D.      Sheikh Abdullah of Jami’a Rashidiya

·         Ilm al-Kalam: 33. Musayara with Musamara

 

E.       Sheikh Muhammad Siddiq

·         Fiqh: 34. Al-Hidaya

·         Usul Fiqh: 35. Nur-al-Anwar

 

F.       Sheikh Ghulumullah Khan

·         Tafsir: 36. A speedy circle of Tafsir in Rawalpindi

 

G.      Shaikh Asim Al-Hadad

·         37. Basic lessons in Arabic

 

E. Books with my own study

·         38. A fiction by Jurgy Zaidan ( C )

·         39. Qatful-Azhar by Arbury (Poetry)

·         40. Al-Mufaddaliyat (Poetry)

·         41. Siraji in the Knowledge of Inheritance