Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab
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Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab in Lucknow
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

, India is an imambara (a building used to commemorate the Muharram
Muharram
Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited...

 commemoration period in with Muslims, particularly Shias mourning the tragedy of Karbala
Karbala
Karbala is a city in Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 572,300 people ....

 in which Imam Hussain was killed).

Outside the Imambara is a graveyard (part of the Imambara) which was intended to be used as a place of burial for scholars. Such people buried in its graveyard include Maulana Syed Kalbe Hussain
Syed Kalbe Hussain
Maulana Syed Kalbe Hussain Naqvi nicknamed "Kabban" was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Twelver Shi'a Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad", notably Syed Dildar Ali Nasirabadi, also known as Ghufran Ma'ab. His father was Maulana Syed Aqa Hasan...

, Maulana Syed Kalbe Abid
Kalbe Abid
Maulana Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Shia Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad", notably Syed Dildar Ali Nasirabadi, also known as Ghufran Ma'ab. His father was Syed Kalbe Hussain and grandfather Syed Aqa Hasan...

,Maulana Ibne Hasan Naunaharavi and Sultan-ul-Ulema Maulana Syed Qaim Mahdi.

The building is named after Ayatollah Ghufran Ma'ab
Ghufran Ma'ab
Ayatollah Syed Dildar Ali Naseerabadi - also known as Ghufran-Ma'ab was a Shia scholar of India who originated from a family of scholars from the village of Nasirabad, Raibareli, 32 km from their District Raebareli, in Uttar Pradesh, India.The title "Ghufran Ma'ab Nasirabadi" was bestowed on...

 and is run by his descendants. His descendant, Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad
Kalbe Jawad
Hujjat al-Islam Imam-e-Juma Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad Naqvi is a Shi'a scholar from Lucknow, India.-Family background:...

 addresses the majlis (gathering) there for the first 10 days of the holy month of Muharram.

Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab, Maulana Kalbe Hussain Road, Chowk, Lucknow-3, Uttar Pradesh, India. Many eminent personalities are buried in its graveyard.
Ayatollah Syed Dildar Ali Naseerabadi (مولانا سيد دلدار على نصيرابادى) - also known as Ghufran-Ma'ab (غفران ماب) was a Shia scholar of India who originated from a family of scholars from the village of Nasirabad
Nasirabad, Raibareli
Nasirabad is a Village and a Gram Sabha in Chhatoh Block, Rae Bareli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.- Geography :Nasirabad is located at . It has an average elevation of 101 metres .- Demographics :...

, 32 km from their District Raebareli, in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The title "Ghufran Ma'ab" was bestowed on him by scholars in Najaf, Iraq and means "the one who lives in heaven" due to his scholarly attributes. Among them, his most known work is "Imad-ul-Islâm", in Arabic, which is a refutation of the anti-Shia arguments used by the famous Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.
There is an Imambargah (A holy building) in his name (Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab) in the city of Lucknow and village-Nasirabad
Nasirabad, Raibareli
Nasirabad is a Village and a Gram Sabha in Chhatoh Block, Rae Bareli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.- Geography :Nasirabad is located at . It has an average elevation of 101 metres .- Demographics :...

,uttar pradesh, India.
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