List of Hanafis

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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 Hanifah (d. 767)
• Abdullah ibn Mubarak (d. 797)
• Abu Yusuf (d. 798)
• Muhammad al-Shaybani (d. 805)
• Yahya ibn Ma'in (d. 847)
• Al-Hassaf (d. 874)
• Abu Ja'far al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 933)
• Abu Mansur Al Maturidi (d. 944)
• Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983)
• Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090)
• Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 1100)
• Yusuf Hamadani (d. 1141)
• Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi (d. 1142)
• Al-Kasani (d. 1191)
• Al-Marghinani (d. 1197)
• Uthman Siraj ad-Din (d. 1357)
• Badr al-Din al-Ayni (d. 1451)
• Ibn Kemal (d. 1536)
• Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (d. 1549)
• Ala Bakhsh (f. 1500s)
• Ali al-Qari (d. 1605)
• Ahmed Sirhindi (d. 1624)
• Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi (d. 1642)
• Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1671)
• Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1731)
• Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d. 1762)
• Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlawi (d. 1824)
• Ibn Abidin (d. 1836)
• Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani (1949–2009)
• Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (1789–7 October 1851)
• Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (1832 – 15 April 1880)
• Al-Maydani (d. 1881)
• Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi (1833–1884)
• Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (d. 1886)
• Mahmud Deobandi (d. 1886)
• Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (1826 – 1905)
• Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851 – 30 November 1920)
• Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani (d. 1928)
• Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad (1862-1930)
• Anwar Shah Kashmiri (16 November 1875 – 28 May 1933)
• Majid Ali Jaunpuri (d. 1935)
• Shukrullah Mubarakpuri (1895,1896 - 23 March 1942)
• Ashraf Ali Thanwi (19 August 1863 – 4 July 1943)
• Ubaidullah Sindhi (10 March 1872 – 21 August 1944)
• 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)
• 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)
• Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889-1972)
• Muhammad Miyan Deobandi (1903-1975)
• Muhammad Shafi' Deobandi (25 January 1897 – 6 October 1976)
• Mufti Mahmud (1919–1980)
• Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi (2 February 1898 – 24 May 1982)
• Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908-1985)
• Uzair Gul Peshawari (d. 17 November 1989)
• Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (1926–2021)
• Muhammad Taqi Amini ( 5 May 1926 – 21 January 1991)
• Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (1907–1996)
• Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (24 November 1914 – 31 December 1999)
• Aashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri (1925 - 2002)
• Abrarul Haq Haqqi (20 December 1920 — 17 May 2005)
• Fazlul Karim (1935 – 26 November 2006)
• Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927-2008)
• Zafeeruddin Miftahi (7 March 1926 – 31 March 2011)
• Azizul Haque (1919 – 2012)
• Fazlul Haque Amini (1945 – 12 December 2012)
• Abdul Haq Azmi (1928 - 30 December 2016)
• Muhammad Salim Qasmi (8 January 1926 — 14 April 2018)
• Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (1942 – 19 May 2020)
• Salman Mazahiri (10 October 1946 – 20 July 2020)
• Muhammad Adil Khan (d. 10 October 2020)
• Noor Alam Khalil Amini (18 December 1952 – 3 May 2021)

Contemporary Hanafi scholars[]

• Muhibbullah Babunagari (born 1935)
• Mahmudul Hasan (born: 5 July 1950)
• Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1 February 1971)
• Abdul Halim Bukhari (born 1945)
• Rabey Hasani Nadwi (born: 1 October 1929)
• Mufti Muhammad Rafi Usmani (born: 21 July 1936 ).
• Mufti Taqi Usmani (born: 3 October 1943).
• Mushtaque Ahmad (born 1967)
• Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani (born: 14 January 1947).
• Muhammad Sadiq Muhammad Yusuf (born in 1952)
• Salman Husaini Nadwi (born: 1954)
• Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi (born: 26 September 1954).
• Junaid Babunagari (born: 1955)
• Rawil Gaynetdin (born: 25 August 1959).
• Husein Kavazović (born: 3 July 1964).
• Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi (born: 10 May 1965).
• Nazir Ahmad Qasmi (born: 1 June 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
• Tariq Jameel (born:1 January 1953)
• Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
• Fazal-ur-Rehman (born: 19 June 1953)
• Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi (born 1 April 1953)
• Tariq Masood (born 1975)

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