Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti ( 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.
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. His father, Abdul Majid Bhatti was a religious person. Ishaq Bhatti learnt Quran at home from his grandfather.
Coinciding with the partition of India in 1947, Bhatti moved to Pakistan with his family.
He died in Lahore on 22 December 2015, aged 90. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un" (To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return). Honorable Dr. Hammad Lakhvi (may Allah preserve him) led his funeral prayer at Nasir Bagh, Lahore. Later, after the Isha prayer in his ancestral village of Dhesians, Faisalabad, Sheikh-ul-Hadith Hafiz Masood Alam (may Allah preserve him) led the funeral prayer. A massive crowd attended the funeral prayer at both locations, with a large presence of scholars and religious people
Works Bhaṭṭī has written several books in Urdu, including:
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