Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair Ali Zai

Zubair Ali Zai زبیر علی زئی June 1957 – 10 November 2013 was a preacher, theologian, Islamic scholar of ahadith and former merchant marine from Pakistan.

Zubair Ali Zai was from the Pashtun tribe of Alizai, itself a branch of the larger Durrani confederation tracing their descent back to Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Durrani Empire.

He was born in 1957 in the village of Pirdad, near Hazro in the Attock District of Punjab.

He married in 1982 and had three sons (Tahir, Abdullah and Muaz) and four daughters. In addition to his native language of Hindko and Arabic, he was also fluent in English, Urdu, Pashto and Greek, and could read and understand Persian