Muhammad Shafi
Muhammad Shafi (24 January 1897 – 6 October 1976), often referred to as
Mufti Muhammad Shafi, was a
Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar of the
Deobandi school, a
Hanafi jurist and
mufti, he was also an authority on
shari'ah,
hadith,
Qur'anic exegesis, and
Sufism. Born in
Deoband,
British India, he graduated in 1917 from
Darul Uloom Deoband, where he later taught hadith and held the post of Head mufti. He resigned in 1943 to devote his time to the
Pakistan Movement. After the
independence he moved to Pakistan, where he established
Darul Uloom Karachi in 1951. Of his written works, his best-known is ''Ma'ariful Qur'an'', an Urdu commentary on the
Qur'an.
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