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ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlavī (958–1052/1551–1642) was an Indian scholar and Ṣūfī who revived ḥadīth studies in India and rendered Ṣūfī biographies into elegant prose. He wrote approximately sixty books in Arabic and Persian, many of which have been published in the original or in Urdu translation. He composed Persian verse under the takhalluṣ (pen name) Ḥaqqī (“Truthful”). Born in Delhi, he died there at the age of ninety-four, on 21 Rabīʿ I 1052/19 June 1642. 1. Scholarly and Ṣūfī training As a child, he was initiated into the Qādirī order by his father, Shaykh Sayf al-D…