List of Hanafis

The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed the Hanafi Islamic maddhab followed by a subsection featuring contemporary Hanafi scholars, in chronological order.

List of Hanafis

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)
Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi (d. 953-956)
Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983)
Abu Zayd al-Dabusi (d. 1038)
Ali al-Hujwiri (d. 1072)
Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090)
Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 1100)
Yusuf Hamadani (d. 1141)
Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 1142)
Siraj al-Din al-Ushi (d. 1179)
Fatima al-Samarqandi (d. 1185)
Al-Kasani (d. 1191)
Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (d. 1196)
Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 1197)
Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi (d. Beginning of the 12th century C.E)
Mu'in al-Din Chishti (d. 1236)
Rumi (d. 1273)
Abu Tawwama (d. 1300)
Fakhr al-Din al-Zayla'i (d. 1300)
Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi (d. 1310)
Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 1346-47)
Uthman Siraj ad-Din (d. 1357)
Ala al-Haq (1301-1384)
Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 1384)
Baha' al-Din Naqshband (d. 1389)
Ibn Abi al-Izz (1331-1390)
Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 1431)
'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (d. 1438)
Badr al-Din al-Ayni (d. 1451)
Ibn Kemal (d. 1536)
Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549)
Ali al-Qari (d. 1605)
Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624)
'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (d. 1642)
Abul Ikhlas Hasan ibn `Ammar ibn `Ali al-Shurunbulali al Wafa'i (d. 1659)
Mir Zahid Harawi (d. 1689)
Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1671)
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1731)
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d. 1762)
Shah Nuri Bengali (d. 1785)
Syed Ahmad Barelvi (29 November 1786)
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 Ahmad 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 (1890-1976)
Abdul Wahhab Pirji (1890-29 September 1976)
Athar Ali Bengali (1891-6 October 1976)
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (12 December 1880-17 November 1976)
Muhammad Shafi (25 January 1897-6 October 1976)
Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915-1977)
Mufti Mahmud (1919-1980)
Zakariyya Kandhlawi (2 February 1898-24 May 1982)
Shah Abdul Wahhab (1894-2 June 1982)
Belayet Hossain Birbhumi (1887—1984)
Ibrahim Ali Chatuli (1894-1984)
Faiz-ul Hassan Shah (1911-23 February 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)
Mawlana Abdullah Ghazi (1935-1998)
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)
Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1 October 1945-14 August 2010)
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 (scholar) (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)
Habibur Rahman Azami (1941–12 May 2021)
Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri (b. 1938)
Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi (b. 1924)

Contemporary Hanafi scholars

Muhibbullah Babunagari (born: 1935)
Raza Saqib
Mahmudul Hasan (born: 5 July 1950)
Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1 February 1971)
Mufti Rafi Usmani (born: 21 July 1936)
Nematullah Azami (born: 1936)
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)
Shefqet Krasniqi (born: 1966)
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)
Maulana Ilyas Attar Qadri (born: 1950)
A F M Khalid Hossain
Shiekh Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut
Taqi Usmani
Maulana Tariq Jameel
Faraz Rabbani
Shiekh Yunus Jaunpuri
Shiekh Abu Ghudda
Shaykh Muhammad Awwamah
Muhammad Zahid Hasan al‑Kawthari
Wahbi Sulayman Ghawji
Sheikh Saad Nomani

List of Hanafis

Contemporary Hanafi scholars

See also