Muḥammad Shafī ibn Muḥammad Yāsin Us̱mani Deobandi (محمد شفیع بن محمد ياسین عثمانی دیوبندی‎) A Hanafi jurist and mufti, he was also an authority on shari’ah, hadith, Qur’anic exegesis, and Sufism.

He was born on 25 January 1897 in Deoband, India, he graduated in 1917 from Darul Uloom Deoband, where he later taught hadith and held the post of Chief Mufti. He resigned from the school in 1943 to devote his time to the Pakistan Movement. After the independence he moved to Pakistan, where he established Darul Uloom Karachi in 1951. Of his written works, his best-known is Ma’ariful Qur’an, a commentary on the Qur’an.