List of Hanafis

The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed the Hanafi Islamic madhab followed by the section of Contemporary living Hanafi scholars, in chronological order:

Abu Hanifa (d. 767)

Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797)

Abu Yusuf (d. 798)

Muhammad al-Shaybani (d. 805)

Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani (d. 827)

Yahya ibn Ma'in (d. 847)

Al-Hassaf (d. 874)

Al-Tahawi (d. 933)

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 944)

Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983)

Abul Ikhlas Hasan ibn `Ammar ibn `Ali al Shurunbulali al Wafa'i (d. 1069)

Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090)

Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 1100)

Yusuf Hamadani (d. 1141)

Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 1142)

Al-Kasani (d. 1191)

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 1197)

Abu Tawwama (d. 1300)

Uthman Siraj ad-Din (d. 1357)

Ala al-Haq (1301-1384)

Ibn Abi al-Izz (1331-1390)

Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)

Badr al-Din al-Ayni (d. 1451)

Ibn Kemal (d. 1536)

Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549)

Usman Bengali (d. 1573)

Ali al-Qari (d. 1605)

Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624)

'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (d. 1642)

Mir Zahid Harawi (d. 1689)

Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1671)

Muhammad Salih Bengali (1700s)

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1731)

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d. 1762)

Shah Nuri Bengali (d. 1785)

Fakhr ad-Din al-Burdwani (d. 1785)

Mawlana Murad (1790s)

Majduddin (d. 1813)

Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi (d. 1824)

Ibn Abidin (d. 1836)

Haji Shariatullah (1781-1840)

Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (1789 — 7 October 1851)

Muhsinuddin Ahmad (1819–1862)

Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (1800-1873)

Najib Ali Choudhury (1870s)

Naqi Ali Khan (1830 — 1880)

Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (1832 — 15 April 1880)

Al-Maydani (d. 1881)

Yaqub Nanautawi (1833 — 1884)

Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (d. 1886)

Mahmud Deobandi (d. 1886)

Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (1834-1899)

Abdul Wahid Bengali (1850-1905)

Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (1826 — 1905)

Abdul Hamid Madarshahi (1869 - 31 March 1920)

Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851 — 30 November 1920)

Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1867 – 18 June 1921)

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (14 June 1856 — 28 October 1921)

Sufi Azizur Rahman (1862-1922)

Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani (d. 1928)

Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad (1862 — 1930)

Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1872-1931)

Anwar Shah Kashmiri (16 November 1875 — 28 May 1933)

Majid Ali Jaunpuri (d. 1935)

Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (1875 – June 1935)

Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique Pir-e-Furfura (15 April 1865- 17 March 1943)

Shukrullah Mubarakpuri (1895/1896 — 23 March 1942)

Ibrahim Ujani (1863-1943)

Habibullah Qurayshi (1865-1943)

Ashraf Ali Thanwi (19 August 1863 — 4 July 1943)

Ubaidullah Sindhi (10 March 1872 — 21 August 1944)

Hamid Raza Khan (1875 — 1943)

Asghar Hussain Deobandi (16 October 1877 — 8 January 1945)

Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (1884 — 11 January 1946)

Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri (d. 1948)

Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (11 October 1887 — 13 December 1949)

Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri (1868 — 1951)

Nesaruddin Ahmad (1873 — 1952)

Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (1879 — 1952)

Kifayatullah Dehlawi (1875 — 31 December 1952)

Izaz Ali Amrohi (November 1882 — 1955)

Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1 October 1892 — 5 June 1956)

Hussain Ahmed Madani (6 October 1879 — 5 December 1957)

Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898-1959)

Azizul Haq (1903-1961)

Shah Ahmad Hasan (1882-1967)

Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889 — 1972)

Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892 — 1981)

Maqsudullah (1883-1961)

Ibrahim Raza Khan (1907 — 1965)

Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896-1969)

Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (1907-1971)

Abdur Rahman Kashgari (d. 1971)

Deen Muhammad Khan (1900-1974)

Amimul Ehsan Barkati (1911-1974)

Muhammad Miyan Deobandi (1903 — 1975)

Muhammad Faizullah (1892-1976)

Athar Ali Bengali (1891-1976)

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880-1976)

Muhammad Shafi Deobandi (25 January 1897 — 6 October 1976)

Mufti Mahmud (1919 — 1980)

Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi (2 February 1898 — 24 May 1982)

Ibrahim Chatuli (1894-1984)

Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908 — 1985)

Harun Babunagari (1902-1986)

Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900-1986)

Abdur Rahim Firozpuri (1918-1987)

Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895-1987)

Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897-1988)

Uzair Gul Peshawari (d. 17 November 1989)

Abdul Jalil Choudhury (1925-1989)

Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh (1915-1990)

Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1915-1990)

Muhammad Taqi Amini (5 May 1926 — 21 January 1991)

Abul Hasan Jashori (1918 – 8 July 1993)

Muhammad Ayyub Ali (1919-1995)

Abdul Haque Faridi (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996)

Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (1907 — 2 September 1996)

Shamsuddin Qasemi (5 March 1935 — 19 October 1996)

ʿAbd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah (9 May 1917 – 16 February 1997)

Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (26 June 1914 – 16 August 1997)

Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (5 December 1913 — 31 December 1999)

Aashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri (1925 — 2002)

Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924-2005)

Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928-2005)

Abrarul Haq Haqqi (20 December 1920 — 17 May 2006)

Syed Fazlul Karim (1935 – 26 November 2006)

Ubaidul Haq (1928-2007)

Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri (1934-2008)

Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913-2008)

Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927 — 2008)

Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani (1949 — 2009)

Zafeeruddin Miftahi (7 March 1926 — 31 March 2011)

Azizul Haque (1919 — 2012)

Abdus Sattar Akon (1929-2012)

Fazlul Haque Amini (1945 — 12 December 2012)

Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (15 June 1933 – 15 July 2013)

Nurul Islam Farooqi (1959-2014)

Abdur Rahman Chatgami (1920-2015)

Muhiuddin Khan (1935-2016)

Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937-2016)

Abdul Haq Azmi (1928 — 30 December 2016)

Yunus Jaunpuri (1937-2017)

Muhammad Salim Qasmi (8 January 1926 — 14 April 2018)

Akhtar Raza Khan (1943 — 2018)

Tafazzul Haque Habiganji (1938-2020)

Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (1940 — 19 May 2020)

Salman Mazahiri (10 October 1946 — 20 July 2020)

Muhammad Adil Khan (d. 10 October 2020)

Muhammad Abdus Sobhan (1936-2020)

Shah Ahmad Shafi (1945-2020)

Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945-2020)

Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (1926 — 2021)

Noor Alam Khalil Amini (18 December 1952 — 3 May 2021)

Muhammad Wakkas (1952-2021)

Junaid Babunagari (1953-2021)

Abdus Salam Chatgami (1943-2021)

Nurul Islam Jihadi (1916-2021)

Abdul Halim Bukhari (1945–2022)

Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf (15 April 1952 — 10 March 2015)

Karwan-I-Islami

Contemporary Hanafi scholars

• DR Mohammed Tahirul qadri
• Muhibbullah Babunagari (born 1935)
• Raza Saqib
• Khadim Hussain Rizvi
• Mahmudul Hasan (born: 5 July 1950)
• Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1 February 1971)
• Mufti Muhammad Rafi Usmani (born: 21 July 1936 )
• Mushtaque Ahmad (born 1967)
• Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani (born: 14 January 1947).
• Salman Husaini Nadwi (born: 1954)
• Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi (born: 26 September 1954).
• Rawil Gaynetdin (born: 25 August 1959).
• Husein Kavazović (born: 3 July 1964).
• Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi (born: 10 May 1965).
• Mahfuzul Haque (born: 1969)
• Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq (born: 1971).
• Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera (born: 1974).
• Mufti Ebrahim Desai
• Mamunul Haque (born: 1973)
• Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri (born: 13 May 1978)
• Yusuf Ziya Kavakçı
• Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
• Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi (born 1 April 1953)

See also

• Ahl al-Ra'y