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Who are the Revivers of the Religion for each generation?

Who are the Revivers of the Religion for each generation?
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May 03, 2023
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Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:

إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْعَثُ لِهَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ كُلِّ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ مَنْ يُجَدِّدُ لَهَا دِينَهَا ‏”‏

Allah will raise for this community at the end of every hundred years the one who will renovate its religion for it.
(Abu Dawud)

We do not have their names, but the following are considered by some to be the Revivers of the Religion:

First Century (after the prophetic period) (August 3, 718)
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (682–720)


Second Century (August 10, 815)
Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i (767–820)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855)


Third Century (August 17, 912)
Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870)
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash’ari (874–936)


Fourth Century (August 24, 1009)
Abu Bakr Al-Baqillani (950–1013)
Hakim al-Nishaburi (933–1012)


Fifth Century (September 1, 1106)
Ibn Hazm (994–1064)
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111)


Sixth Century (September 9, 1203)
Salauddin Ayyubi (1137–1193)
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149–1210)
Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1206)


Seventh Century (September 5, 1300)
Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328)


Eighth Century (September 23, 1397)
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292–1350)
Tamerlane (Timur) (1336–1405)
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (1372–1448)


Ninth Century (October 1, 1494)
Jalaludin Al-Suyuti (1445–1505)
Shah Rukh (1377-1447)
Mehmet II (1432–1481)


Tenth Century (October 19, 1591)
Selim I (1470–1520)
Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566)
Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624)
Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1634–1720)


Eleventh Century (October 26, 1688)
Mulla Sadra Shirazi (1571–1640)
Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (1585–1671)
Mahiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir (1618–1707)


Twelfth Century (November 4, 1785)
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703–1762)
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792)
Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī (1732–1790)
Shah Abdul Aziz Delhwi (1745–1823)
Usman Dan Fodio (1754–1817)
Tipu Sultan (1750–1799)
Syed Ahmad Barelvi (1786–1831)


Thirteenth Century (November 14, 1882)
Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905)
Said Nursî (1878–1960)
Syed Ahmad Khan (1817–1898)
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851–1920)


Fourteenth Century (November 21, 1979)
Ahmad Raza Khan (1856—1925)
Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863—1943)
Abul A’la Maududi (1903–1979)

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