# 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)
* Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983)
* Abul Ikhlas Hasan ibn `Ammar ibn `Ali al-Shurunbulali al Wafa'i (d. 1069)
* Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090)
* Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 1100)
* Yusuf Hamadani (d. 1141)
* Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 1142)
* Al-Kasani (d. 1191)
* Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 1197)
* Abu Tawwama (d. 1300)
* Fakhr al-Din al-Zayla'i (d. 1300)
* Uthman Siraj ad-Din (d. 1357)
* Ala al-Haq (1301-1384)
* Ibn Abi al-Izz (1331-1390)
* Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
* 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)
* 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 Ahmed 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 Deobandi (25 January 1897-6 October 1976)
* Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915-1977)
* Mufti Mahmud (1919-1980)
* Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi (2 February 1898-24 May 1982)
* Shah Abd al-Wahhab (1894-2 June 1982)
* Ibrahim 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 Chatgami (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 Muhammad 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
* Mufti Taqi Usmani
* Maulana Tariq Jameel
* Faraz Rabbani
* Shiekh Yunus Jaunpuri
* Shiekh Abu Ghudda