Ursnama Hijri calendar of urs
Hijri month

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About Ursnama

One quiet page for the whole year of urs — no account, no network, nothing loaded from outside this file.

What an urs is

Urs means wedding. It is the night a wali is united with his Lord, and the anniversary of his wisal is kept as a wedding rather than a mourning — with Quran recitation, ziyarat at the shrine, qawwali, a chadar and langar.

How the dates work

Every date here is Hijri, and the same urs returns on the same Hijri day each year. Because the lunar month begins with the sighting of the moon, a local calendar can move a date by a day.

Where the recorded dates disagree, the traditional urs date is kept.

On the aqeeda

This calendar is on the aqeeda of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jama‘ah: Hanafi fiqh, Ash‘ari and Maturidi kalam, and the Chishti, Qadiri, Suhrawardi and Naqshbandi tariqas.

Every wali is honoured as a servant of Allah; the du‘a is theirs, the accepting is His.

Where the dates come from

No date here is estimated, and none is carried over from a Gregorian anniversary. Each one is taken from a published urs list or a tazkira, and the year of wisal is given where the source records it.

Sources and method
  • The month-by-month series Urs of Pious Predecessors in the monthly Faizan-e-Madinah.
  • The tazkiras: Tazkirat-ul-Awliya, Khazinat-ul-Asfiyar, Tazkirah Ulama-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, Anwaar-e-Ulama-e-Ahlesunnat Sindh, Tazkirah Mashaaikh Mujaddidiyah Afghanistan, Encyclopaedia Awliya-e-Kiraam.
  • For the Companions, the Ahl al-Bayt and the imams: Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala, Al-Isaba, Usd al-Ghabah, Al-Isti‘ab.
  • For the shrines of the subcontinent: the dargah and khanqah records and the local urs notices of each place.

How to read the marks

★A key urs of that month
≈The day of wisal is not firmly recorded, or two sources disagree. The entry says which, and what the sources give.
·Another urs falls on the same day as the row above it

A Hijri month is 29 or 30 days, and a local calendar can move any date by one day with the sighting of the moon. The day is given as the sources record it.

What is not here

Where the sources could not settle a day of wisal, the name is left out rather than guessed at. Those names are listed here so that nothing is silently dropped.

Held back, and why
  • Hazrat Arshadul Qadri — the lists give 2 Safar and a date in Muharram.
  • Hazrat Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi — 2 Rabi al-Thani in one list, another month in a second.
  • Hazrat Ibrahim Raza Jilani Mia — 2 Rabi al-Thani and a differing record elsewhere.
  • Hazrat Sardar Ahmad — 1 Shaban, with no year agreed.

Where two dates stood against each other and the fuller, later list could be checked, that date was taken and the difference is written in the entry — as with Hazrat Abdul Quddus Gangohi (23 or 24 Jumada al-Thani) and Hazrat Shah Waliullah (20, 28 and 29 Muharram).

Jumada al-Awwal carries fewer entries than the other months, because that instalment of the series could not be read; the month rests on the earlier lists.