Sanaullah Amritsari

Abul Wafa Sanaullah Amritsari was a British Indian, later Pakistani, Muslim scholar and a leading figure within the Ahl-e-Hadith movement who was active in the city of Amritsar, Punjab. He was an alumnus of Mazahir Uloom and the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a major antagonist of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the early Ahmadiya movement. He served as the general secretary of the All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-i-Hadith from 1906 to 1947 and was the editor of the Ahl-e-Hadees, a weekly magazine.Taking the major controversy, According to Ahmadiyya sources, Maulvi Sanaullah Amritsari initially accepted a mubahalah proposed by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, under which the false claimant would die during the lifetime of the truthful one. Ahmadiyya publications state that Sanaullah later clarified that he had intended only to take an oath and did not proceed with the mubahalah under the conditions originally proposed.