Ziauddin Madani

Zia'uddin Madani was an Islamic scholar and Sufi Shaykh also known as Qutb-e-Madina. He lived for the most of his life in Medina. He was born in 1877 in Sialkot and died on 2 October 1981. He was buried in Al-Baqi.

He was an Islamic scholar and disciple of Imam Ahmad Raza Khan. He was the spiritual teacher of Ilyas Qadri.

Early life and education He was born in 1877 AD (1294 AH) in Sialkot, Pakistan, to Sheikh Abdul Aziz. His family claims descent from Abu Bakr Siddique, a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the first caliph of Islam.

He received his early education in Sialkot and Lahore. He studied for four years in Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh, India) and got his Islamic education under the supervision of Wasee Ahmad Muhaddis Soorti. He went to Karachi. After some time, travelled to Baghdad, Iraq to take blessings from Ghaus e Azam. He lived in Baghdad for 4 years and then travelled to Medina in 1900. He stayed in Medina for almost 77 years. He died on 2 October 1981.

Bay’at and Khilafat He took the oath of spiritual allegiance from Imam Ahmad Raza Khan of Bareilly at the age of 18, who was the reviver of the 14th century, of the Qadriya movement of Abdul Qadir Jilani.