Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti

Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti (Urdu: محمد اسحاق بھٹی‎, romanized: Muḥammad Isḥāq Bhaṭṭī 15 March 1925 – 22 December 2015) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and historian. A leading figure of Ahl-i Hadith in South Asia, Bhatti was born in Kotkapura in Faridkot State and migrated to Pakistan in 1947 after the partition of India.

Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti
Personal life
Born	(1925-03-15)15 March 1925 Kotkapura, state of Faridkot
Died	22 December 2015(2015-12-22) (aged 89–90) Lahore, Pakistan
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Creed	Atharism
Movement	Ahl-i Hadith

Biography

Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti was born on 15 March 1925 in Kotkapura in the state of Faridkot (present day Faridkot, Punjab) into a Bhatti family.^[1][2] His father, Abdul Majid Bhatti was a religious person. Ishaq Bhatti learnt Quran at home from his grandfather.^[2]

In 1947, Bhatti moved to Pakistan from India with his family.^[1][3]

He died in Lahore on 22 December 2015, aged 90.

Works

Bhaṭṭī has written several books in Urdu, including:

• Fuqahā-yi Hind (in Urdu). Lahore: Idārah-yi S̲aqāfat-i Islāmiyah. 1974. OCLC 21694813.
• Cahrah-i nubuvvat: Qurān ke āʻine men̲. Rāvalpindī: ʻIlm o ʻIrfān Pablishraz : Milne ke pate, Kitāb Ghar. 1999. OCLC 62340862.
• Maulānā Abūlkalām Āzād, ek nābg̲h̲ah-yi rozgār shak̲h̲ṣīyat. Paṭna: K̲h̲udā Bak̲h̲sh Oriyanṭal Pablik Lāʼibrerī. 2001. OCLC 49751320.
• Qāfilah-yi Ḥadīs̲. Lāhaur: Maktabah-yi Quddūsiyyah. 2003. OCLC 122336419.
• Barr-i Ṣag̲h̲īr men̲ ṣaḥābah, tābiʻīn, tabiʻ tābiʻīn. Naʼī Dihlī: al-Balāg̲h̲ Pablīkeshanz. 2006. OCLC 87883681.
• Istiqbāliyah va ṣadāratī k̲h̲ut̤bāt : jo Markazī Jamʻīyat-i Ahl-i Ḥadīs̲-i Pākistān kī kānfaranson̲ men paṛhe gaʼe. 2012. OCLC 857754259.
• Taz̲kirah-yi Qāz̤ī Muḥammad Sulaimān Manṣūrpūrī: ʻahd, k̲h̲āndān, asātiz̲ah, hamʻaṣr ʻUlamāʼ. Naiʼ̄ Dihlī: al-Kitāb Inṭarnaishnal. 2007. OCLC 244660730.
• Nuqūsh-i ʻaẓmat-i raftah. Naʼī Dihlī: al-Kitāb Inṭarnaishnal. 2003. OCLC 65340028.
• Gulistān-i Ḥadīs̲. Lahore. 2011. OCLC 824088159.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Barr-i Ṣag̲h̲īr men̲ Islām ke avvalīn naqūsh : Pāk o Hind men̲ ṣaḥābah, tābiʻīn, tabiʻ tābiʻīn. 2009. OCLC 785785958.

Bibliography

• Salafi, Muhammad Ramzan Yusuf (2011). Mouarrakhe Ahle Hadith Maulana Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti Hayat o Khidmat (Ahl-e-Hadith historian Maulana Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti Life and Services). Sialkot: Maktaba Rahmania.

Further reading

• Salfia, Jamia (2016). Mahnama Tarjuman al Hadith (ترجمان الحدیث اپریل تا جون 2016ء). Faisalabad: Jamia Salfia Faisalabad.
• Bhaṭṭī, Muḥammad Isḥāq (2010). Guzar gaʼī guzrān. Lahore: Nashriyāt: Ḍisṭribiyūṭar, Kitāb Sarāʼe. OCLC 746489787.
• Azīz, Ḥamīdullāh K̲h̲ān̲; Maulānā Muḥammad Isḥāq Bhaṭṭī Rīsarc Sanṭar (2017). Armug̲h̲ān-i Maulānā Muḥammad Isḥāq Bhaṭṭī. OCLC 989727036.