Qutb e Medina Maulana Ziauddin Madani
ضیاءالدین مدنی
Title	Qutb-e-Medina
Personal
Born	1877 Sialkot, Punjab, British India, Now Pakistan
Died	2 October 1981(1981-10-02) (aged 103–104) Medina, Saudi Arabia
Resting place	Al-Baqi, Medina present-day Saudi Arabia
Religion	Islam
Children	Sayyid Ridwan al-Madani
Denomination	Sufi (Qadri)
School	Hanafi
Lineage	Siddiqui
Movement	Barelvi movement
Muslim leader
Influenced by Abu Hanifa Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Hassan Raza Khan
Influenced Muhammad Musa Amritsari
Post	Sufi and mystic

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Ziauddin Madani (Urdu: ضیاءالدین مدنی, romanized: Zīāuddīn Madanī) was an Islamic scholar. Known by the title Qutb-e-Madina, he lived 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.^[1] He was the spiritual teacher of Ilyas Qadri.^[2][3]

Early life and education

Ziauddin Madani was born in Sialkot, a city in Pakistan, in 1877 A.D. (1294 AH) to Sheikh Abdul Aziz, they were descendants of Abu Bakr Siddique.^[4]

He got 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.^[3][5] He went to Karachi. After some time, travelled to Baghdad, Iraq to take blessings from Ghaus e Azam.^[6] He lived for 4 years and then went to Medina in 1900. He stayed in Medina for almost 77 years. He died on 2 October 1981.^[3] He is buried in the cemetery of Medina Jannat ul Baqi.^[7]

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.^[8][9]