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A scholar of the Seerah with a PhD in the field. As his titles show, he studied at Jamia Darussalam, Oomerabad (Umri) and at the Islamic University of Madinah (Madani).

A hadith scholar from Basti who combined Nadwa and Jamia Salafia training with a Madinah degree and later postgraduate study. He worked for the Muslim World League in…

A hafiz from Hoskote near Bengaluru who graduated from Oomerabad and the Faculty of Hadith in Madinah. He heads the Jamia’s da‘wah institute and teaches tafsir and…

A Delhi-based orator and educationist who helped revive the national Ahl-e-Hadith body in the 1960s and 70s, then built a network of boys’ and girls’ institutions…

A Kashmiri scholar who studied Arabic in Srinagar and then went to Madinah for higher study. In February 2024 he was elected president of Jamiat Ahle Hadith Jammu and…

Born near Allahabad (Prayagraj), he trained at the Varanasi madrasas and earned all three degrees in Madinah. After a few years teaching at Jamia Salafia he spent…

An Oomerabad-trained preacher who served as imam and khateeb in Chennai and Hyderabad and spent years on da‘wah in Andhra Pradesh. He wrote an easy-to-read Urdu…

Born in Oomerabad, he studied at Jamia Darussalam and Madras University before earning parallel degrees in Da‘wah and Shari‘ah in Madinah. He taught for decades at…

A Madinah-trained hafiz and public speaker who gives Islamic lectures across India in Urdu, English and Hindi, with a large catalogue of recorded talks.

A hadith teacher from Mau who graduated from Oomerabad in 1963 and taught for decades in Mau’s Ahl-e-Hadith madrasas. He also wrote Hindi tracts for non-Muslim…

Dr Maulana Fazlur Rahman رحمه اللهMadaniMalegaon, Maharashtra, India

Originally from Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh, he earned a doctorate in fiqh in Madinah and then led Jamia Muhammadia Mansoora in Malegaon for decades, teaching many…

Maulana Habibur Rahman Zahid Azmi رحمه اللهUmriOomerabad, Tamil Nadu, India

A son of Muhammad Nu‘man Azmi. He studied at Oomerabad and later served it as hadith teacher, head of its research institute and founding editor of its monthly, and…

Son of Oomerabad’s hadith master Muhammad Nu‘man Azmi. He studied at the Jamia and then Shari‘ah in Madinah under teachers including Ibn Baz and al-Albani, and gave…

Maulana Kaka Sayeed Ahmed رحمه اللهUmriOomerabad, Tamil Nadu, India

A member of the Kaka family that founded Jamia Darussalam in 1924. He led the institution as its chancellor and was a vice-president of the All India Muslim Personal…

A hadith teacher at Oomerabad, remembered by former students for his punctuality and discipline, who also served as an administrator of the Jamia.

From East Champaran in Bihar, he was among the early Indian graduates of Madinah and studied under Ibn Baz and al-Albani. He spent his career at Dar al-Ifta in…

An early hadith master at Jamia Darussalam, described as a student of Nazir Husain Dehlvi, the leading Ahl-e-Hadith teacher of his time. His sons Hafeezur Rahman and…

Shaykh Muhammad Uzair Shams رحمه اللهWest Bengal, India

A Bengal-born scholar of manuscripts. After Jamia Salafia and an Arabic degree in Madinah, he spent decades in Makkah recovering and editing the scattered writings of…

Born into a Hindu family in Azamgarh, he accepted Islam as a young man and studied at Oomerabad, Madinah, Makkah and al-Azhar. He became Dean of Hadith at the Islamic…

Dr Shaykh R. K. Noor Muhammad رحمه اللهUmari · MadaniPallikonda, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

A hadith scholar from Vellore district who earned all three degrees in Madinah, ending with a gold-medal doctorate in 2002. He led the Jamiat Ahle Hadees in Tamil…

A scholar from the Mubarakpur family of hadith scholars. He trained at Jamia Salafia and in Madinah, returned to Varanasi to teach and edit classical texts, and rose…

From Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh, he graduated from the College of Hadith in Madinah in 1981. He is known for Arabic works defending the Sunnah and for writings on the…

A hadith scholar from Basti district in Uttar Pradesh. He went to Madinah in 1967, did his postgraduate study at Umm al-Qura, and has taught Hadith and Tafsir in the…

Born in Shkodër, Albania, he grew up in Damascus, where he worked as a watch-repairer and taught himself hadith. He became the best-known hadith authenticator of the…

A Moroccan scholar who studied and taught in Egypt, India, Iraq, Germany, Morocco and Saudi Arabia, earning a doctorate in Berlin in 1940. He is best known as…

Shaykh Kaleem Madani رحمه اللهMadaniJanakpur, Dhanusha, Nepal

A Nepali teacher trained in Mau, Oomerabad and Madinah. He taught in Chennai for seven years before leading a college in Janakpur, and ran Qur’an memorisation circles…

Hafiz Shaykh Zubair Ali Zai رحمه اللهHazro, Attock, Punjab, Pakistan

A Pakistani hadith specialist who devoted his work to grading hadith and assessing narrators, producing verified editions and commentaries widely used in Pakistan’s…

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh رحمه اللهRiyadh, Saudi Arabia

Born in Makkah, he studied under Muhammad ibn Ibrahim and Ibn Baz and taught Sharia at Imam University. For decades he delivered the Arafah sermon, and he succeeded…

Born in Riyadh, he lost his sight as a young man yet became the leading Saudi scholar of his generation. He served as a judge, helped lead the Islamic University of…

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Muhsin al-‘Abbad al-BadrMadinah, Saudi Arabia

A hadith scholar from al-Zulfi who studied under Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, Ibn Baz and al-Shinqiti. He joined the Islamic University of Madinah when it opened and for…

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Nasir al-Sa‘di رحمه اللهUnaizah, Saudi Arabia

A scholar of Unaizah who wrote more than forty books and is best known for his concise, accessible tafsir. He led the town’s main mosque and taught a generation that…

Dr Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razzaq ibn ‘Abd al-Muhsin al-BadrMadinah, Saudi Arabia

The son of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Muhsin al-‘Abbad, he holds a doctorate in creed and teaches at the Islamic University of Madinah. His commentaries on creed primers and his…

A Saudi jurist who served as a judge in Madinah and taught at the Prophet’s Mosque before becoming Deputy Minister of Justice. He presided over the International…

Born in Mali, he settled in the Hijaz and studied with leading scholars in Makkah. He spent most of his career at the Islamic University of Madinah, heading its creed…

A Mauritanian jurist and linguist who settled in Saudi Arabia after Hajj. He was among the early lecturers of the Islamic University of Madinah and a member of the…

Saudi Arabia’s first Grand Mufti, who built much of the kingdom’s religious, judicial and educational institutions. He founded the Islamic University of Madinah, and…

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-‘Uthaymin رحمه اللهUnaizah, Saudi Arabia

A jurist from Unaizah and the leading student of ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sa‘di, whose mosque circle he took over. He taught for decades and sat on the Council of Senior…

Born in Kasur, he trained as a physician and worked for many years in Madinah. Alongside medicine he produced English translations of Sahih al-Bukhari and, with Taqi…

Shaykh Salih ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Al ash-SheikhRiyadh, Saudi Arabia

A grandson of Grand Mufti Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, he taught at Imam University before entering government as deputy minister and then minister of Islamic affairs. He is…

Dr Shaykh Salih ibn ‘Abdullah ibn HumaydMakkah, Saudi Arabia

Born in Buraydah, he earned all three degrees at Umm al-Qura University. He has led prayer at the Masjid al-Haram and held senior state posts, including Speaker of…

Dr Shaykh Salih ibn Fawzan al-FawzanRiyadh, Saudi Arabia

From Qassim, he took all three of his degrees in fiqh at the College of Sharia in Riyadh. For many years he served on the Council of Senior Scholars and the Permanent…

Shaykh Salih ibn Muhammad al-Luhaydan رحمه اللهRiyadh, Saudi Arabia

A judge from Qassim who began as secretary to Grand Mufti Muhammad ibn Ibrahim and rose to lead Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Judicial Council. He was a founding member of…

A Yemeni hadith scholar who studied in Makkah and at the Islamic University of Madinah under Ibn Baz, al-Albani and others. He founded Dar al-Hadith in his home…