The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. Uttar Pradesh-based Darul Uloom is one of the most important Islamic seminaries in India and the largest in the world. It is located in Deoband,a town in Saharanpur district,Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi,Fazlur Rahman Usmani,Sayyid Muhammad Abid and others in 1866. Mahmud Deobandi was the first teacher and Mahmud Hasan Deobandi was the first student.
Muhammad Qasim Nanawtawi was an Indian Sunni Hanafi Maturidi Islamic Scholar,theologian and a Sufi who was one of the main founders of the Deobandi Movement,starting from the Darul Uloom Deoband.
Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi (1833–1884) was an Indian Islamic scholar,and one of the earliest teachers of Islamic Madrassa in Deoband,famously called Darul Uloom Deoband in India. He was the first principal of Darul Uloom Deoband.
Muḥammad Shafī‘ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānīDeobandī,often referred to as Mufti Muhammad Shafi,was a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school of Islamic thought.
Anwar Shah Kashmiri was an Islamic scholar from Kashmir in the early twentieth century,best known for his expertise in the study of hadith,a strong memory,and a unique approach to interpreting traditions,as well as the fourth principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. With an ancestral heritage of religious scholarship rooted in Baghdad,he acquired training in Islamic sciences at Darul Uloom Deoband under the mentorship of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi,alongside enjoying a spiritual journey with Rashid Ahmad Gangohi. Initiating his vocation as the first principal of Madrasa Aminia,he embarked on a hajj in 1906 with a sojourn in Medina,dedicated to exploring the depths of hadith literature. Subsequently,he joined Darul Uloom Deoband,serving as the post of Sheikh al-Hadith for nearly thirteen years before choosing Jamia Islamia Talimuddin as his final destination for his academic voyage. Although he displayed limited inclination toward the written word,a handful of treatises flowed from his pen. Yet,the bulk of his literary legacy has been preserved through the efforts of his students,who transcribed his classroom lectures,discourses,and sermons. While the crux of his scholarly work centered on championing the Hanafi school and establishing its supremacy,he also garnered recognition for his comparatively liberal approach to various religious matters. His publications found their place under the patronage of Majlis-i Ilmi,a scholarly institution established in Delhi in 1929. His scholarly credentials received official endorsement with the publication of Fayd al-Bari,a four-volume Arabic commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari,curated by Badre Alam Merathi and published in Cairo,with the financial support of Jamiatul Ulama Transvaal.
Abul Wafa Sanaullah Amritsari was a British Indian,later Pakistani,Muslim scholar and a leading figure within the Ahl-e-Hadith movement who was active in the city of Amritsar,Punjab. He was an alumnus of Mazahir Uloom and the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a major antagonist of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the early Ahmadiya movement. He served as the general secretary of the All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-i-Hadith from 1906 to 1947 and was the editor of the Ahl-e-Hadees,a weekly magazine.
Nizāmuddīn Asīr Adrawi was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar,biographer,historian and author in the Urdu language. He established Madrassa Darus Salam in Adari and served as Officer In Charge of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind in Lucknow from 1974 to 1978.
Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad (1862–1928) was an Indian Muslim scholar,who served as the Vice Chancellor of the Darul Uloom Deoband for thirty five years. He was the Grand Mufti of the Hyderabad State from 1922 to 1925.
Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as first Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband. He is best known for his Fatawa Darul Uloom Deoband. His brother was Shabbir Ahmad Usmani.
Mahmud Deobandi was a Muslim scholar who became the first teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband. His most notable student is Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.
Mamluk Ali Nanautawi was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as the Head Teacher of Arabic language at the Zakir Husain Delhi College. His notable students include Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi,Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi.
Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri was an Indian Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the fifth Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband.
Ahmad Hasan Amrohi also known as Muhaddith Amrohi within the Deobandi movement;was an Indian Muslim scholar and freedom struggle activist who served as the first principal of Madrasa Shahi in Moradabad. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband and among the founding members of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi's Thamratut-Tarbiyat. He was an authorized disciple of Imdadullah Muhajir Makki.
Deobandi hadith studies is a field of Islamic scholarship within the Deobandi movement that critically examines the sayings and actions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as recorded in the Hadith literature. The Deobandi approach to Hadith studies is based on the principles of the classical scholars of hadith.
Muhammad Ibrahim Balyawi (1887–1967),also spelt as Muhammad Ibrahim Balliavi,was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as the 6th Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. He spent almost 50 years instructing Hadith,Mantiq,Islamic philosophy,and other subjects at Darul Uloom Deoband.
Sharif Hasan Deobandi was an Indian Islamic scholar and Muhaddith. He served as Sheikh al-Hadith at Darul Uloom Deoband from 1972 to 1977. He also worked as a professor of Hadith and Sheikh al-Hadith at Jamia Islamia Talimuddin in Dabhel for almost ten years.
Mahdi Hasan Shahjahanpuri (1882–1976),also known as Mufti Mehdi Hasan and Mahdi Hasan Gilani Qadri,was an Indian Islamic scholar and mufti. He served as grand mufti at Darul Uloom Deoband for twenty years. He was an alumnus of Madrasa Aminia and Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a student of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi and Kifayatullah Dehlawi. Along with jurisprudence,he also had access to hadith and biographical evaluation. His literary works include Rijāl-u-Kitāb al-Āthār,Sharh-u-Balāghāt-i-Muhammad FīKitāb al-Āthār,Al-la'ali al-Masnoo'ah fīal-Riwāyāti al-Marjoo'ah,and a critical commentary on certain ideas of Ibn Hazm in the Science of Hadith entitled As-Sayf al-mujalla 'ala al-Muḥalla. He has done research and commentary work on Muhammad al-Shaybani's two books,Kitab al-Hujjah AlāAhl al-Madīnah and Kitab al-Āthār.
Habibur Rahman Usmani,also written as Habibur Rahman Deobandi and Maulāna Habib al-Rahmān,was an Indian Islamic scholar,Arabic writer and poet,and an Islamic jurist. He served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor,then Vice-Chancellor for the VC Office of Darul Uloom Deoband,for nearly twenty-three years. He succeeded Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad as Grand Mufti of Hyderabad State for about one year.
Ghulām Rasool Hazārvi was an Indian Islamic scholar and one of the earliest teachers of Darul Uloom Deoband. He served as a teacher in Darul Uloom Deoband for about thirty one years. His teachers included Syed Ahmad Dehlavi and Mahmud Hasan Deobandi. His students included Abdur Rahim Popalzai,Anwar Shah Kashmiri,Asghar Hussain Deobandi,Hussain Ahmad Madani,Izaz Ali Amrohi,Kifayatullah Dehlawi,Manazir Ahsan Gilani,Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri,Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi,and Shabbir Ahmad Usmani.
