Mufti Muhammad Shafi

Muhammad Shafi

Full name	Muhammad Shafi
Born	Deoband
Era	Modern era
Region	Islamic scholar
School	Deobandi Hanafi
Main interests	Shari'a, Hadith, Tafsir
Influenced by Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi
Influenced Mufti Taqi Usmani, Mufti Rafi Usmani

Deobandi movement

Key figures

Qasim Nanotvi · Rashid Gangohi Husain Madani · Mehmud Hasan Shabbir Usmani · Ashraf Ali Thanwi Anwar Kashmiri · Ilyas Kandhlawi Ubaidullah Sindhi · Taqi Usmani

Notable Institutions

Darul Uloom Deoband, India Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur, India Hathazari Madrassah, Bangladesh Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, India Darul Uloom Karachi, Pakistan Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Pakistan Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan, Iran Darul Uloom London, England Darul Uloom New York, United States Darul Uloom Canada Madrasah In'aamiyyah, South Africa

Movements

Tablighi Jamaat Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Sipah-e-Sahaba Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Taliban

Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘ (1896–1976) was a Hanafi Islamic scholar from India. During his life he served as the Deobandi grand Mufti of India and later Pakistan as well.

Biography

He was born in 1896 and graduated from Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic university at the age of 22. He became a Mufti that same year. In 1943, he left Darul Uloom Deoband to participate in the Pakistan Movement and emigrated to the newly created state upon partition. He is the founder of Darul Uloom Karachi, an institute of Islamic Sciences in Pakistan.^[1]

Works

He wrote around one hundred books explaining the Qur'an and interpreting Islamic law. His best-known and most widely translated work is the Ma'ariful Qur'an ("The Wisdom of the Qur'an"), which he finished (in Urdu) four years before his death.^[2] This work, a commentary on the entire Qur'an, began life as a series of weekly lectures on Radio Pakistan than ran for ten years.^[3]

References

1. ^ Ma'ariful Qur'an: A Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Qur'an (Karachi: Mataba-e-Darul-Ulomm Karachi, 2008 ed.), Volume 1. p. xv
2. ^ Ibid., Vol. 1. p. xv
3. ^ Ibid., Vol. 1. p. xv

See also

• Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi
• Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
• Husain Ahmad Madani
• Maulana Mehmud Hasan
• Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
• Ashraf Ali Thanwi
• Anwar Shah Kashmiri
• Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi
• Ubaidullah Sindhi ·

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Date of birth	1896
Place of birth	Deoband
Date of death	1976
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