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{{Infobox Shia scholar without Socio-political activities

| title   = Husayn Quli Hamadani

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| Lineage   = [[Jabir b. 'Abd Allah al-Ansari]]

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| Place of study = [[Tehran]],[[Najaf]]

| Home town = [[Hamadan]],[[Najaf]]

| Professors = [[Shaykh 'Abd al-Husayn Tihrani]],[[Al-Shaykh al-Ansari]],[[Sayyid 'Ali Shushtari]], ...

| Students = [[Mirza Javad Maliki Tabrizi]], [[Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin]], [[Mirza Muhammad Husayn Na'ini]], [[Akhund Mulla Muhammad Kazim Khurasani]], ...

'''Mullā Ḥusayn Qulī Hamadānī'''(Persian:{{iarabic|ملا حسین قلی همدانی}}) was an Islamic scholar, [[mystic]] and [[faqih|jurisprudent]] of 13th/19th and 14th/20th centuries ([[1239]]/1824 – [[1311]]/1894) . He studied in different cities of [[Tehran]], [[Sabzevar]] and [[Najaf]]. His great teachers were [[al-Shaykh al-Ansari]] in [[fiqh]] and [[usul]] and [[Sayyid 'Ali Shushtari]] in [[ethics]]. Some of his top students were [[Mirza Baqir Qadi Tabataba'i]], [[Mirza Jawad Maliki Tabrizi]], [[Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin]], [[Shaykh Muhammad Bahari]], [[Mirza Muhammad Husayn Na'ini]] and [[Akhund Khurasani]].

His lineage reached [[Jabir b. 'Abd Allah Ansari]], one of the [[sahaba|companions]] of [[the Prophet (s)]]. His father, whose name was Ramadan, was a shepherd and wished that his son continues his educations so he sent him to [[Tehran]] to learn [[religious studies]].

Husayn Quli learned preliminary lessons, different levels of [[fiqh]] and [[usul]] and then attended the classes of [[kharij fiqh]] and [[usul]] of different Islamic scholars such as [[Shaykh 'Abd al-Husayn Tihrani]] (d. 1286/1869) known as Shaykh al-'Araqayn.

After a while staying in [[Sabzevar]], he left there for [[Najaf]]. In Najaf, he benefitted the fiqh and usul class of [[Shaykh Murtada Ansari]] and through him, was guided to attend the akhlaq class of [[Sayyid 'Ali Shushtari]] and became one of his pupils.

After [[al-Shaykh al-Ansari]] passed away, Mulla Husayn Quli wanted to continue teaching his teacher's class but he refrained from it due to [[Sayyid 'Ali Shushtari]]'s advice and began educating and teaching [[akhlaq]] to talented students and after Sayyid 'Ali Shushtari passed away, he taught Akhlaq in his house in addition to [[fiqh]] and [[usul]].

Mulla Husayn Quli Hamadani educated many students. Multitude of his students which in some reports reached 300, in the one hand shows his popularity and on the other hand demonstrates the broad influence of his spiritual conduct in [[Najaf]] of that time. Some of his great pupils are:

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* [[Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin]] (d. 1371/1952)

Undoubtedly, having the opportunity to learn under [[Mulla Hadi Sabzevari]] after being benefitted from the classes of [[al-Shaykh al-Ansari]] had reinforcing effect on deepening the teachings of [[Sayyid 'Ali Shushtari]] in the heart of Mulla Husayn Quli Hamadani. Having great understanding of rational teachings and [[fiqh]], Mulla Husayn Quli promoted his teacher's conduct so much that a new educational school was formed after him in [[Najaf]].

* In the first step, the wayfarer must perform the obligations and avoids prohibitions. He so much emphasized on this step that observing the religious laws and limits can be considered his most important factor of his spiritual conduct. He believed that love of God cannot come together with sins.

In the view of Mulla Husayn Quli, some ways of clearing mental occupations are remembering God, reciting the [[Holy Qur'an]], worshiping, invoking the Infallible [[Imams]] (a) and surly the quickest way of clearing mental occupations is to reflect on the self.

Mulla Husayn Quli passed away in his pilgrimage to [[Karbala]] on 28th of [[Sha'ban]] 1311/March,6,1894 and he was buried in the [[Shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a)]].

* Class scripts of his fiqh classes about the topics of [[Salat al-Musafir]] (the traveler's prayer), [[al-khilal]], [[al-Qada']] and [[al-Shahadat]] written and compiled by his students in three volumes.

* His [[Amali]] on [[ethics]] compiled by some of his students

* Correspondences and instructions which [[Mirza Isma'il Tabrizi]] (Ta'ib) compiled them together with some correspondences and instructions of [[Ahmad Karbala'i]], [[Muhammad Bahari Hamadani]] and [[aqa Muhammad Bidabadi]] and published them at the end of his ''[[Tadhkirat al-Muttaqin]]''.

*The material for this article is mainly taken from [http://fa.wikishia.net/view/%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%87%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C ملاحسینقلی همدانی] in Farsi Wikishia.