Biography of the Reviver of Islām, grandmaster of tafsīr, ĥadīth and fiqh, peerless Ĥanafī jurist of his time, vanquisher of innovators and enemies of religion, foremost defender of faith and the imām of Sunnis, polymath, poet, teacher, mufti, gnostic, guide Mawlānā Aĥmad Riđā Khān al-Ĥanafī al-Qādirī al-Baraylawī, famously known as Alahazrat in the subcontinent was born in 1272 AH (1856 CE) in Bareilly,1 a prominent city in Uttar Pradesh,2 North India. His grandfather named him Al-Mukhtār.
