Asslamo Allaikum, Although Maulana Abul-Kalam Azad (RA) was about 10 years+ older then Hazrat Shaykh Maulana Zakariyya (RA) I am not sure if he was his student in anyway, please let me know where you heard this from as this is interesting. Maulana Abul-Kalam Azad (RA) wasn't Ahl-e-Hadeeth in the Indian/Pakistani sense of the sect "Ahle-Hadeeth". By the way if you can read/write Urdu read Al-Hilal...I don't know of any other scholar from the Indian Subcontinent who had such command of Arabic/Urdu/Persian and could switch between three languages so effortlessly. Arabic was his Mother-tongue and he was a Poet in both Urdu and Persian. Maulana Abul-Kalam Azad (RA) writings are something else particularly in his youth (Al-Hilal) when he was young and totally immersed and occupied by Khilafah. Maulana Abul-Kalam Azad (RA) writings "rock"