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.
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Born in 1887 in Bijnor,Usmani was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was the son of Fazlur Rahman Usmani. His brother Azizur Rahman Usmani was the first Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband. Usmani was the first to hoist the Flag of Pakistan at Karachi on 14 August 1947,and led the funeral prayers of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. His major work is the Tafseer-e-Usmani,which he co-authored with his teacher Mahmud Hasan Deobandi.
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.
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.
Nizāmuddīn Asīr Adrawi was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar,biographer,historian and author in the Urdu language. He established the Madrassa Darus Salam in Adari and served as the Officer In Charge of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind in Lucknow from 1974 to 1978.
Zayn al-Abidin Sajjad Meerthi (1910–1991) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and historian and head of the Islamic studies department of Jamia Millia Islamia. His book Tarikh-e-Millat is required reading in the syllabus of Darul Uloom Deoband and in madrasas affiliated with it.
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.
Atīqur Rahmān Usmānī was an Indian Muslim scholar and an activist of Indian independence movement who co-founded Nadwatul Musannifeen and the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat.
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.
Syed Ahmad Dehlavi was an Indian Muslim academician and hadith scholar who served as the second principal and Sheikh al-Hadith of Darul Uloom Deoband between 1884 and 1890. He specialised in Islamic astronomy and mathematics. His students included Abdul Hayy Hasani,Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri,Mahmud Hasan Deobandi,Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani,Muhammad Yasin Deobandi,Ubaidullah Sindhi,and Ashraf Ali Thanwi.
Habibur Rahman Usmani (1860–1929),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. His students included Shabbir Ahmad Usmani,Manazir Ahsan Gilani,Muhammad Shafi Deobandi,Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami,Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi,Atiqur Rahman Usmani,Qari Muhammad Tayyib,Badre Alam Merathi,Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi,Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi,Manzoor Nomani,and Yusuf Banuri.
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.
