Muhammad Shafi Deobandi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Muhammad Shafi Deobandi

Sunni Deobandi Islamic scholar

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1897

Place of Birth: Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Death: 06-Oct-1976

Profession: religious leader

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mu?ammad Shafi‘ ibn Mu?ammad Yasin ‘Us_mani Deobandi (Urdu: ???? ???? ?? ???? ????? ?????? ????????; Arabic: ???? ???? ?? ???? ????? ???????? ??????????, Mu?ammad Shafi‘ ibn Mu?ammad Yasin al-‘Uthmani ad-Diyubandi; c.
25 January 1897 – 6 October 1976), often referred to as Mufti Muhammad Shafi, was a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school of Islamic thought.
A Hanafi jurist and mufti, he was also an authority on shari'ah, hadith, tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), and tasawwuf (Sufism).
Born in Deoband, British India, he graduated in 1917 from Darul Uloom Deoband, where he later taught hadith and held the post of Chief Mufti.
He resigned from the school 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, a tafsir of the Qur'an.