Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan is a Hanafi

Hanafi

The Hanafi school is one of the four Madhhab in jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after the Persian scholar Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit , a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani...

 Islamic scholar from Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He is the founder of the Jamia Arabia Ahsan-ul-Uloom

Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom is an international Sunni Islamic educational institute located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is regarded as one of the most established madrassas because of its teachings that mainly focuss on understanding the Fiqh and refraining from performing...

 seminary located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal

Gulshan-e-Iqbal

'Iqbal Goth' is a large residential and commercial neighbourhood of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.The name "Gulshan-e-Iqbal" means "the garden of Iqbal", referring to the national poet of Pakistan, Allama Muhammad Iqbal....

, Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

 (fiqh

Fiqh

Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the code of conduct expounded in the Quran, often supplemented by tradition and implemented by the rulings and interpretations of Islamic jurists....

), hadith

Hadith

The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....

, tafsir

Tafsir

Tafseer is the Arabic word for exegesis or commentary, usually of the Qur'an. Ta'wīl is a subset of tafsir and refers to esoteric or mystical interpretation. An author of tafsir is a mufassir .- Etymology :...

 and tasawwuf. His seminary is notable for being one of the first Deobandi

Deobandi

Deobandi is a movement of Sunni Islam. The movement began at Darul Uloom Deoband in Deoband, India, where its foundation was laid on 30 May 1866.-History:...

 institutions to offer the takhassus (PhD equivalent degree leading to mufti

Mufti

A mufti is a Sunni Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law . In religious administrative terms, a mufti is roughly equivalent to a deacon to a Sunni population...

status) degree program to women.

Work

Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan laid the foundation of a jamiah in 1398 Hijra (jamiah arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom is an international Sunni Islamic educational institute located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is regarded as one of the most established madrassas because of its teachings that mainly focuss on understanding the Fiqh and refraining from performing...

). The objectives and goals of that jamiah is to formulate intellectual and endowed scholars who can guide the Muslim Ummah on the precise pathway.

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom is an international Sunni Islamic educational institute located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is regarded as one of the most established madrassas because of its teachings that mainly focuss on understanding the Fiqh and refraining from performing...

 provides complete Islamic Education that includes Tafseer-Ul-Quran, Hadith Shareef, Fiqqah, Islamic rulebooks, Arabic literature and more free of expenditure. Other than Knowledge of Islam, Hifz and Nazrah Quran, Darjah-e-A'adadiyah i.e. (equivalent to eighth grade books including books with beginners Arabic, Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

 and other Islamic books) are also taught.

In his jamiah there is an exceptional layout of Darjaat-at-Takhasusat, i.e. (Ph.D. Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom is an international Sunni Islamic educational institute located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is regarded as one of the most established madrassas because of its teachings that mainly focuss on understanding the Fiqh and refraining from performing...

 also has a Dar-Ul-Iftah in which queries related to day-to-day problems are resolved in the illumination of Islam with broad research and investigation under the management of Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan sahib. During usual vacations, outstanding planning for Daura-e-Tafseer-Ul-Quran is organized in which men and women (with pardah) from all line of work attend regularly.

Personal life

Born in 1955, Mufti Zar Wali Khan completed his islamic education from Jamia Uloom ul Islamia,Banori Town, Karachi before establishing the jamiah arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Ahsan-Ul-Uloom

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom is an international Sunni Islamic educational institute located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is regarded as one of the most established madrassas because of its teachings that mainly focuss on understanding the Fiqh and refraining from performing...

.

Inspiration from Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Mufti Zar Wali Khan is in the students' tree of Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Maulana Anwar Shah Al Lolabi Kashmiri was an Indian scholar of Islam. During his career, he taught at a number of prominent institutions, including the Darul Uloom Deoband which contains a gate named at his honor...

, as he is student of Maulana Hanan who is also in the students' tree of Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Maulana Anwar Shah Al Lolabi Kashmiri was an Indian scholar of Islam. During his career, he taught at a number of prominent institutions, including the Darul Uloom Deoband which contains a gate named at his honor...

. He is so much inspired by Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Maulana Anwar Shah Al Lolabi Kashmiri was an Indian scholar of Islam. During his career, he taught at a number of prominent institutions, including the Darul Uloom Deoband which contains a gate named at his honor...

 that he named his own son after him.

See Also

• Ebrahim Desai
• Muhammad Taqi Usmani
  Muhammad Taqi Usmani
  Muhammad Taqi Usmani is a Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan who was born in 1943. He served as a judge on the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 1981 to 1982 and the Shari'a Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic...
  
  
• Allama Nurul Islam Olipuri
• Sheikhul Hadith Allama Azizul Hoque
• Faqihul Millat Mufti Abdur Rahman