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Sanaullah Amritsari's ancestors hailed from Doru Shahabad, a town in Jammu and Kashmir. He was born in 1868 in Amritsar, where his father had settled permanently.[2] He received his early education at Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar,[3] and later moved to Wazirabad to study hadith under Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi.[4] He then studied with Syed Nazir Hussain in Delhi.[5][6] He joined Mazahir Uloom for higher education and thereafter completed his studies at Darul Uloom Deoband, where his teachers included Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.[7][8][5] He had joined the Deoband seminary in 1890 to study logic, philosophy and Fiqh.[8] He subsequently attended the lectures of Aḥmad Ḥasan at the Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam, in Kanpur.[9]
Amritsari started his career with teaching at his alma mater Madrasa Ta'īd al-Islām in Amritsar, in 1893, and taught the books of Dars-i Nizami.[9] He then became the director of education at the Madrasa Islamiyyah in Maler Kotla.[9] He subsequently stepped into polemics and began debating the proponents of Arya Samaj and specially Ahmadism.[10] He established Ahl-e-Hadith Press in 1903 and published a weekly journal Ahl-e-Hadith which continued for about 44 years.[8] He was a leading figure of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement and served as the general secretary of All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-Hadith from 1906 to 1947.[3][4] He co-founded the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and had a rank of major general in Junud-e-Rabbania.[8] He was president of Anjuman Ahl-e-Hadith Punjab.[7] He was given the title Sher-e-Punjab for his services to Islam in Punjab.[8]
Amritsari wrote pamphlets and books mostly in the refutation of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.[11]Syed Mehboob Rizwi has mentioned Tafsir al-Quran be-Kalam al-Rahman, Tafsir-e-Sanai and Taqabul-e-Salasa as his important works.[8]
When Rangila Rasul was written on Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sanaullah Amritsari wrote Muqaddas Rasool as a reply to that book.[12]
Adrawi, Asir (April 2016). Karwān-e-Rafta: Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind [The Caravan of the Past: Discussing Indian scholars] (in Urdu) (2nd ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen.
Rizwi, Syed Mehboob (1981). "Maulana Sana Allah Amritsari". History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband. Vol. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi. Idara-e-Ehtemam, Dar al-Ulum Deoband. pp. 45–46.
Tijarwi, Muhammad Mushtaq (2020). Fuzala-e-Deoband ki Qur'ānī Khidmāt. Aligarh: Brown Book Publications. pp. 59–65.
Ahmad, Abrar (2019). "Tafsīr Thanā'ī by Sanaullah Amritsari". In Ab. Majeed, Nazeer Ahmad (ed.). Quran Interpretation in Urdu: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Viva Books. pp. 89–101.
