‘Allamah Aziz al-Haq: Shaykh al-Hadith of Bangladesh

From Sunniforum:

Shaykhul Hadith of Bangladesh, ‘Allama Azizul Haque sahib died yesterday at the age of 94 in his house at Dhaka, Bangladesh ………. إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

He was one of the greatest Mujaahid of Bangladesh who fought against British colony in India when the British tried to rule India during the time of 1940-1947. He was also very active member in many Islamic Da’wah and Khilafah establishing parties with the former grand Mufti of Pakistan Shafi Usmani (rahmatullah). He had traveled many countries for Da’wah and uniting the Ummah. He had visited to Iran-Iraq in 1982 with a group of scholars from Bangladesh and requested the leaders to stop the war and sit together to solve their problems. In 1992, when the Babri Masjid was demolished in India, then he, ‘Allama Azizul Haque sahib (rahmatullah) along with our half million Muslims from all over the Bangladesh protested in the Indian border of Bangladesh and asked the govt of India to rebuild the Babri Masjid but he was arrested and sent to prison for several months.

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