Muhammad Husayn Batalwi

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Abū Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Baṭālvī (c. 1840–1920) was an Indian Islamic scholar of the Ahl-i Hadith movement during the late 19th and early 20th-century in British India. A native of Batala in the Punjab, he became a student of Syed Nazir Husain Dehlawi and is considered one of the founders of the Ahl-i Hadith alongside Dehlawi and Siddiq Hasan Khan.^[1] Batalvi was the editor of the magazine Isha'atus Sunnah and is best known for being a major antagonist to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement.^[2]