Syed Saleh (Haigam)

Syed Saleh Rizvi

Syed Saleh Rizvi (or Syed Salih Ridwi) [17th-18th Century] ^[1][2] resided in Ahmedpore village, which is at a distance of two to three miles from the town of Magam in Kashmir. Later Syed Saleh left Ahmedpore village to live in the village of Haigam in the Baramulla District in Kashmir.^[3]

Contributions

He was a renowned personality and a grand scholar of his period, who had also written Marsiyeh or dirge in Kashmiri^[4][5] in the memory of Imam Hussein, the Shiite third Imam who was martyred mercilessly in Karbala.

Grave and descendants

Syed Saleh is reportedly buried in Kabul, Afghanistan.^[6][7] His son, Aqa Syed Baqar went to Lucknow along with his son Aqa Syed Ali; famously known as Aqa Syed Ali Rizvi Kashmiri. Aqa Syed Ali got educated from Najaf and Karbala in Iraq and was a great intellectual, an Ayatollah and a renowned jurist, whose son Ayatollah Syed Abul Hassan Rizvi Kashmiri (Abbu Sahab) is credited as having established well known Shiite Islamic School Sultanul Madaris and also helped in establishing the school of Jamia Nazimeyeh, both in Lucknow. This Aqa Syed Ali Kashmiri was also the maternal grandfather of great Gnostic and jurist, Ayatollah Syed Murtazha Rizvi Kashmiri. Apart from above mentioned Shia scholars and jurists, a number of great personalities and Islamic jurists including Ayatullah Syed Ahmed Rizvi Kashmiri were his descendants, who lived in Lucknow and Kashmir in India. Many of his descendants are buried in Karbala and Najaf in Iraq.^[8][9]

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