Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi

Shaykh-ul-Quran
حضرت شیخ القرآن
Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi
محمد عبدالغفور ہزاروی
Shaykh-ul-Quran ; حضرت شیخ القرآن Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi; محمد عبدالغفور ہزاروی
Title	Rahbar-e-Sharia, Qudwat ul-Salikeen, Zubdat ul-Arfeen, Burhan-ul-Wasleen, Makhdoom Ahle Sunnah, Hazrat Shaykh-ul-Quran, Abu al-Haqaiq
Personal
Born	9 Dhu al-Hijjah 1326 Hijri 1 January 1909 Georgian calendar; Chamba Pind, Kot Najeebullah, North-West Frontier Province, British India
Died	7 Sha'aban 1390 Hijri 9 October 1970 (aged 61)
Resting place	Wazirabad, Punjab, Pakistan
Religion	Islam
Nationality	Pakistan
Era	Modern era
Region	South Asia
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Sufism
Movement	Barelvi
Main interest(s)	Fiqh, Tafsir, Sunnah, Hadith, Sharia, ʿAqīdah, Seerah, Mantiq, Islamic philosophy, oratory, Tasawwuf
Notable idea(s)	Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat
Notable work(s)	Jamia Nizamia Ghousia, Manaqib-al-Jaleela
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Bareily
Tariqa	Chishti, Qadiriyya, Uwaisi
Occupation	Political leader, Grand Mufti
Muslim leader
Disciple of	Hamid Raza Khan
	Influenced by Abū Ḥanīfa, Abdul-Qadir Gilani, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Meher Ali Shah;
	Influenced Maufti Abdul shakoor Hazarvi, Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, Sahibzada Haji Muhammad Fazal Karim, Muhammad Muneeb ur Rehman, Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, Pir Allauddin Siddiqui, Muhammad Tufail Naqshbandi, Moulana Muhammad Maqsood Chishti, Anjuman-e-Talaba-e-Islam;
Awards	Nishan-e-Imtiaz (1958)
President of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan
	In office; 19 September 1948 – 9 October 1970
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni

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Akhundzada Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi (Urdu: اخوندزادہ محمد عبدالغفور ہزاروی چشتی) (1 January 1909 – 9 October 1970) was a Muslim theologian, jurist, and scholar of ahadith in Pakistan (South Asia).^[2] He was active in the Pakistan movement, member of Council of Islamic Ideology. He was the companion of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and separatist leader Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and was active in the independence movement of Pakistan against the British Raj.^[3] He was a Sufi of the Chishti Sufi order and the founding member of the religious Barelvi Sunni strain political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP). He became its president in 1948. He was also a political figure in Pakistan and was the first recipient of Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan. He was also the chairman of Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat, an organisation opposed to the Ahmadiyya Movement that waged a campaign against Mirza Ghulam Ahmed's claim of prophethood.

^ "Awais Noorani slams JI politics". The Nation (newspaper). 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
^ Zebiri, Kate. Review of Maududi and the making of Islamic fundamentalism. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 61, No. 1.(1998), pp. 167–168.
^ "Alliance with PML-Q triggers rift in Sunni Ittehad". Dawn (newspaper). 28 November 2012. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

[1] "Awais Noorani slams JI politics". The Nation (newspaper). 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2021.

[Zebiri-2] Zebiri, Kate. Review of Maududi and the making of Islamic fundamentalism. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 61, No. 1.(1998), pp. 167–168.

[dawn-3] "Alliance with PML-Q triggers rift in Sunni Ittehad". Dawn (newspaper). 28 November 2012. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

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