Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri(1889 – 2001)
Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri, a Sufi saint, author, scholar of Hadith and the Holy Qur’an, and Muslim missionary in Bangladesh, travelled widely in North India and lived for a while inside the Sundarbans forest, seeking solitude. As a Sufi master he was initiated in various Sufi orders and his teachings stated that Islam was a unified whole of Shariat, Tariqat, Haqiqat and Marefat.
Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri was a Sufi saint, author scholar of Hadith and the Holy Qur’an, Hadith and Quran, and Muslim missionary in Bangladesh. He was influenced by Ala Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Qadri and his Ahle Sunnat Barelvi mission, He was also a poet of Urdu ghazals, nazm, hamd and naat, his pseudo name being Fani. As a Sufi master he was initiated in various Sufi orders.
His mother was his first teacher and instrumental in his religious education. When Janpuri was eighteen, he came to Kolkata with his maternal uncle and was admitted to the Madrasah Alia (Calcutta Madrasah), Kolkata and went on to Cairo for higher education, and studied tafsir and other Islamic studies at the University of Al-Azhar.
Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri’s devotees state that his maternal lineage goes back to Abu Bakr Siddique, the first political successor of Islam, and his paternal lineage to Ali, the fourth political successor (caliph) of Islam. His grandfather is said to have settled first in Noakhali, Bangladesh and then in Rangpur.
His teachings stated that Islam was a unified whole of Shariat, Tariqat, Haqiqat and Marefat. and was incomplete without any one of these. He refused to depend on charity, and lived in Bangladesh almost incognito
According to his disciples, Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri was nearly 113 years old when he died.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Rashid_Ahmed_Jaunpuri