{{Short description|Bengali Islamic scholar (1883–1938)}} {{Other uses|Momtazuddin Ahmed (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox religious biography | honorific_prefix = [[Mawlana]] | name = Momtazuddin Ahmad | native_name = মমতাজুদ্দীন আহমদ | image = | caption = | religion = [[Islam]] | denomination = [[Sunni]] | jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]] |children = [[Moudud Ahmed]] | education = | birth_date = 1889 | birth_place = [[Companiganj Upazila, Noakhali|Manikpur]], [[Noakhali District]], [[Bengal Presidency]] | death_date = {{Death year and age|1974|1889}} | death_place = [[Bangladesh]] | students = [[Amimul Ehsan Barkati]] | module = {{Infobox Arabic name|embed=yes | ism = Aḥmad<br />أحمد | nasab = ibn Muḥammad Jalīs<br />بن محمد جليس | laqab = Mumtāz ad-Dīn<br />ممتاز الدين<br />Fakhr al-Muḥaddithīn<br />فخر المحدثين<ref name=barkat>{{cite book|language=ar|title=فقه السنن والآثار|chapter=ترجمة المؤلف|page=22|author=[[Amimul Ehsan Barkati|Barkati, Amimul Ehsan]]|year=2014|publisher=Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah|isbn=9782745181114}}</ref> | nisba = al-Būiyān<br />البوئيان<br />an-Nawākhālawī<br />النواخالوي}} }} [[Mawlana]] '''Momtazuddin Ahmad''' ({{langx|bn|মমতাজুদ্দীন আহমদ}}; 1889–1974) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] [[Ulama|Islamic scholar]], author and teacher. He is the father of former [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh|Prime Minister]] [[Moudud Ahmed]].
==Early life and education== Momtazuddin Ahmad was born in 1889 to a [[Bengali Muslim]] family of [[Bhuiyan]]s in the village of [[Companiganj Upazila, Noakhali|Manikpur]] in [[Noakhali District]], [[Bengal Presidency]]. His father, Muhammad Jalees Bhuiyan, was a [[sheikh]].<ref name=kum>{{cite book|language=ar|title=كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية|author=al-Kumillai, Muhammad Hifzur Rahman|publisher=Dar al-Salih|location=[[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]|year=2018|chapter=الشيخ الفاضل مولانا ممتاز الدين أحمد بن الشيخ محمد جليس النواخالوي}}</ref>
After finishing primary school, Ahmad moved to [[Calcutta]] and became a student at its [[Aliah University|Alia Madrasa]] in 1907. He passed from Jamaat-i-Suwam in 1910 and Jamaat-i-Ula in 1913. In 1916, he graduated in [[Hadith studies]] from the madrasa and awarded ''Fakhr al-Muhadditheen'' (Glory of the Hadith scholars). His Hadith teachers were [[Ishaq Burdwani]] and [[Nazir Hasan Deobandi]]. His other teachers included [[Lutfur Rahman Burdwani]], [[Abdul Haq Haqqani]] and [[Fazl-e-Haq Rampuri]]. Ahmad passed his [[matriculation]] from the [[University of Calcutta]] Board in 1918.<ref name=emd>{{cite book |script-title=bn:হাদীছের তত্ত্ব ও ইতিহাস|language=bn |publisher=Emdadia Library |chapter=2.2 বঙ্গে এলমে হাদীছ |author=Azmi, Nur Muhammad|trans-title=Information and history of Hadith |trans-chapter=2.2 Knowledge of Hadith in Bengal}}</ref>
==Career== Ahmad remained in [[Calcutta]] after completing his education, teaching [[Hadith studies]] at the [[Aliah University|Calcutta Alia Madrasa]] from 1919. He also briefly served as a lecturer of [[Arabic]] at the [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]] in 1921.<ref name=bpedia/> He relocated to the [[Government Madrasah-e-Alia]], [[Dacca]] in 1953, six years after the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|Partition of Bengal]]. Among his notable students are [[Amimul Ehsan Barkati]].<ref name=barkat/>
==Personal life== Ahmad married Begum Ambia Khatun. His fourth son, [[Moudud Ahmed]], served as the [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] from 1988 to 1989.<ref>{{cite book|title=পঞ্চম জাতীয় সংসদ সদস্য প্রামাণ্য গ্রন্থ|language=bn|year=1992|author=Ullah, Ahmad|publisher=সুচয়ন প্রকাশন|page=273}}</ref>
==Works== Ahmad primarily wrote in [[Arabic]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Urdu]]. Among his published works are: *''Ḥall al-ʿUqdah fī Sharḥ [[Mu'allaqat|Sabʿ Muʿallaqah]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=واقع اللغة العربية في الجامعات الهندية|page=169|author=Irshad, Ahmed|year=2005|language=ar}}</ref> *''Sahl al-Maʿālī fī Sharḥ [[Maqamat Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani|Maqāmāt Badīʿ az-Zāmān al-Hamadhānī]]'' *''Niʿmah al-Munʿim fī Sharḥ Muqaddimah [[Sahih Muslim]]'' *''Al-Kawkab ad-Durrī fī Sharḥ Muqaddimah [[Mishkat al-Masabih]]'' *''Kashf al-Maʿānī fī Sharḥ [[Maqamat of Al-Hariri (manuscript)|Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī]]'' *''Nabī Parichay'' *''Qurān Parichiti'' *''Paribāgher Shāh Sāheber Jībanī''
==Death== Ahmad died in 1974.<ref name=bpedia>{{Cite Banglapedia|article=Ahmad, Maulana Mumtazuddin|author=Nurul Alam, A. K. Muhammad}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}} {{Hanafi scholars}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmad, Momtazuddin}}
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