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Zafar Ahmad Usmani ظفر أحمد العثماني) (4 October 1892 – 1974), was a 20th Century Sunni Muslim Jurist who became an influential figure of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence’s Deobandi Movement. He also was a prominent Pakistan Movement activist. He is most famous for having written I’la Al-Sunan, a 20 volume Hadith encyclopedia of…

Maulana Tariq Jamil طارق جمیل born 1 October 1953 is a Pakistani Islamic television preacher, religious writer, scholar, and a member of the Tablighi Jamaat. The recipient of the Pride of Performance award, Maulana Tariq Jamil has been named in The 500 Most Influential Muslims every year since 2012. In the 2023 edition of the…

Zakariyya Kandhlawi زکریا کاندھلوی February 1898 – 24 May 1982) was a mid-twentieth-century traditionalist Sunni scholar and an authority in the study of hadith, also known as Sheikh al-Hadith, hailing from India. He was an influential member and ideologist of Tablighi Jamaat and the author of the Fada’il series, which is a crucial propagation literature…

Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (also written as Saʻīd Aḥmad Pālanpūrī) (1940 – 19 May 2020), was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author who served as Shaykh al-Hadith and Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. A number of his books are required readings in Darul Uloom Deoband. Palanpuri joined Jamia Ashrafiya in Rander as a teacher in…

Muhammad Ilyas Ghuman is a Pakistani Deobandi cleric, Islamic preacher, Ilm al-Kalam expert (Mutakallim e islam), religious philosopher, Sufi (he is a discipline of Peer Aziz ur Rehman Hazarvi), Debater, Theologian, and columnist who is the head of Markaz Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat in Sargodha

Muhammad Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri Muhajir Madani was a prominent Indian Islamic scholar. He was a disciple of Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi. Ashiq Ilahi was born in Bulandshahr, United Provinces of British India in 1924 or 1925 (1343 AH). He graduated from Mazahir Uloom in 1363 AH. Ashiq Ilahi taught at various Indian madrasas and moved to…

Maulana Imdadullah Anwar is associated with Jamia Qasim al-Uloom in Multan Pakistan. He is also serving as Reasearch and publication incharge in Dar al-Maaraf Multan. A number of books have been contributed on different subjects.

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalāni ابن حجر العسقلاني (18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449 CE / 773 – 852 A.H.), or simply Ibn Ḥajar,was a classic Islamic scholar “whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith.” He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and Shafi’i jurisprudence, the most…

Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi محمد بن عيسى الترمذي, 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209 – 279 AH, often referred to as Imam at-Termezi/Tirmidhi, was an Islamic scholar, and collector of hadith from Termez (early Khorasan and in present-day Uzbekistan). He wrote al-Jamias-Sahih (known as Jami at-Tirmidhi), one of the six canonical hadith compilations…

Abu Abd-ur-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shuayb ibn Ali ibn Sinan ibn Bahr Al-Khurasani An-Nasai, attributed to his homeland Nasa (present-day located in Turkmenistan). He was a great memorizer and critic of Hadith and one of the key figures in Muslim scholarship. He was renowned for his utmost extensive awareness of the defects of Hadith and the…

Belongs to Liaqatpur Rahimyar Khan, Got his early education from his native place in Madrassa Qasim al-Uloom. Later he went to Jamia Salfia for education. During his final year he shifted to Gujranwala under supervision of Hafiz Mohammad Gondalvi. Later he joined Idara Uloom-Asria in Faisalabad under Maulana Mohammad Abdullah where he completed his studies…