Muhammad Ilyas ibn Muhammad Ismail Kandhlawi Dihlawi (1884 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925,
Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi 1st Amir of Tablighi Jamaat Muhammad Ilyas was born in 1303 AH (1885/1886) in the village of Kandhla, Muzaffarnagar district, North-West Provinces, British India (in present-day Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh, India). His year of birth can be computed by the tarikhi name "Akhtar Ilyas" (اختر الیاس) In a local maktab , he memorized one and a quarter ajza' of the Qur'an, and he completed memorizing the Qur'an under his father's supervision in Nizamuddin area, Delhi. Thereafter, he studied the elementary books of Arabic and Persian language mostly under his father. Later on, he lived with and studied under Rashid Ahmad Gangohi. In 1905, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi died, when Muhammad Ilyas was 20. In 1908, Muhammad Ilyas enrolled in Darul Uloom Deoband. He also studied under Mahmud Hasan Deobandi. Muḥammad Ilyas ibn Muḥammad Ismail Kandhlawi Dihlawi (1884 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic rev...