Ansari (nesba)

Ansaris
الأنصار
Regions with significant populations
	Arab world, Turkey, South Asia, Iran
Languages
	Arabic, Turkish, Gujarati, Urdu, Persian, Hindi, Sindhi
Religion
	Islam

Al-Ansari or Ansari is an Arab community, found predominantly in the Arab and South Asian countries. They are descended from the Ansar of Madinah. The Ansari are an Urdu-speaking community also called Muhajir, although the Ansari clan of Gujarat have Gujarati as their mother tongue.^[1]^: 984

History

The Ansaris are the descendants of the Ansar tribe of Madinah. They are found throughout the middle east and South Asia. The Ansaris that are still living today in Arabia have migrated to other places such as Qatar, Bahrain and other parts of Saudi Arabia. The people of the Ansari tribe in South Asia are few. They arrived there when the son of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari took part in the Muslim conquest of Khorasan and settled in Herat.^[2] They are descended from the Sufi saint Abdullah Ansari and migrated to India in 1526 under the Mughal Sultan Babur.^[3] Some Ansari settlements in south Asia can be found in, Yusufpur, Saharanpur, Lucknow Firangi Mahal Jais or Jayas and Kakori.^[4]

Notable Ansaris

Medieval

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a prominent companion of Muhammad
Ansari ( other companions of Muhammad)
Sa'id ibn Aws al-Ansari (died 830), Arab linguist and narrator of hadith
Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (d.767), Hanafi Muslim Jurist and scholar
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013), also known as Albucasis, Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus
Alāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ansari (1304–1375), also known as Ibn al-Shatir, prominent Arab astronomer and instruments maker.
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006–1088), Perso-Arab mystic and poet, and one of the descendants of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), Syrian Arab geographer
Zakariyya al-Ansari (1420–1520), Egyptian Sufi mystic

Modern

Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari (b. 1887-d. 1979),was a scholar and descendant of Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, the descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
Morteza Ansari (1781–1864), Shia jurist from Dezful, Iran
Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (1879–1946), Indian freedom fighter, Hero of the Silken Letters Movement-1904-1916, diplomat, jurist, political scientist Deoband-India, Kabul-Afghanistan, Ankara-Turkey.
Abidullah Ghazi, (1936-2021), Indian-American Academic, syllabus developer, author, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, (1839–1905). Indian Islamic scholar, jurist, academic, freedom fighter in 1857 War of Independence. Gangoh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abdulrahman al-Ansary, (b. 1935-d. 2023), Saudi Arabian archaeologist.
Hamid Ansari is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who was the 12th vice president of India from 2007 to 2017.^[5]
Mukhtar Ansari (b.1963-d. 2024) was a convicted Indian gangster and politician from Uttar Pradesh.^[5]

Naats in Islam

Tala' al Badru 'Alayna Tala‘ al-Badru ‘Alaynā (Arabic: طلع البدر علينا) is a traditional Islamic song known as nasheed that the Ansar sang to Muhammad upon his arrival at Yathrib after completing the Hijra in 622 CE. The naat is currently over 1400 years old, and one of the oldest in the Islam.

References

^ K. S. Singh, People of India Uttar Pradesh, Volume XLII Part Two. Manohar Publications
^ Seerat Mezban e Rasool (SAW) Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansari (R.A) By: Talib Hashmi, Lahore; Taha pub; 2005
^ "Ghazipur: A Gazetteer, being Volume XXIX of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh". INDIAN CULTURE.
^ "ANSARIS OF YUSUFPUR". 10 November 2013 – via Internet Archive.
^ ^a ^b Mahmud Ansari 2013 https://archive.org/details/ANSARISOFYUSUFPUR