Zubair Ali Zai

Zubair Ali Zai (25 June 195710 November 2013) was a preacher, theologian, Islamic scholar of ahadith and former merchant marine from Pakistan.His origins was from Pashtun subtribe of Daudzai I.e Alizai.
Life
Zubair Alizai was from the Pashtun tribe of Alizai, itself a branch of the larger Durrani confederation tracing their descent back to Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Durrani Empire.
He was born in 1957 in the village of Pirdad, near Hazro in the Attock District of Punjab.
He married in 1982 and had three sons (Tahir, Abdullah Saqib and Muaz) and four daughters. In addition to his native language of Hindko and Arabic, he was also fluent in English, Urdu, Pashto and Greek, and could read and understand Persian.
Career
Education
Hafiz Zubair Alizai completed a bachelor's degree and later on two master's degrees, one in Islamic studies in 1983 and another in the Arabic language in 1994 from the University of the Punjab in Lahore. Additionally, he graduated for a fourth time from the Salafi University in Faisalabad.
Editing and publishing
Hafiz Zubair Alizai was, like his former teacher Rashidi, a bibliophile, having amassed a private library of some renown in Hazro, where he spent most of his time.
Works
Much of Hafiz Zubair Alizai's work consists of editing and referencing ancient texts of prophetic tradition and evaluating them according to the Categories of Hadith. Working with Dar us Salam, he has reviewed the Al-Kutub al-Sittah, considered canonical in Sunni Islam. He also authored many books written in Urdu and Arabic. A book named "Noor ul Enain fi Masalate Rafa-ul-Yadain" has a list of all his works.
List of his books (published):
Anwar al Sunan Fi Tahqiq Aasar il Sunan
Anwaar ul Saheefah Fi Ahadees Zaheefa Min Sunnan e Arba'a
Tohfatul Aqwiya Fi Tahqeeq Kitabul Zuhafa
Tahqeeq Tafseer Ibn Kathir
Tahqeeq Masael Muhammad Ibn Usman Ibn Abi Shaybah
Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Juzz Ali Bin Muhammad Al-Himyari
Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Kitabul Arbaʿīn Le Ibn Taymiyyah
Al-Etihaaf Al-Basim Fi Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Muwatta Imam Malik Riwayatu Ibn ul-Qasim
Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Hisnul Muslim
Alfathul Mubeen Fi Tahqeeq Tabqaat Al-Mudaliseen
Musafaha wa Mohaniqa Ke Ahkaam wa Masael
Nabi Kareem ﷺ kay Lail wa Nahaar
Taufeeq Al-Bari Fi Tatbeeq Al-Quran wa Saheeh Al-Bukhari
Masla Fatiha Khalful Imam
Juzz Rafahul Yadain
Fazael Sahaba
Noorul Enain Fi Masalate Asbaate Rafa-ul-Yadain
Hadith referencing
Sahih Muslim of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2007. 1st Ed. 7 volumes.
Jami' at-Tirmidhi of Muhammad ibn 'Isa at-Tirmidhi. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2007. 6 volumes.
Al-Sunan al-Sughra of Al-Nasa'i. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2008. 6 volumes.
Sunan Abu Dawood of Abu Dawood. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2008. 1st Ed. 5 volumes. Translated by Yasir Qadhi.
Sunan ibn Majah of Ibn Majah. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2007. 1st Ed. 5 volumes.
Death
Hafiz Zubair Alizai died on 10 November 2013 in Benazir Bhutto Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan of lung failure.
See also
Muhammad al-Bukhari
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Malik ibn Anas
Al-Shafi‘i
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Ibn Taymiyyah
Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani
References
1957 births
2013 deaths
20th-century imams
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Arabic-language writers from Pakistan
Biographical evaluation scholars
Hadith scholars
Pakistan Merchant Navy
Pakistani imams
Pakistani Islamic religious leaders
Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Pashtun people
People from Attock District
Sunni imams
Salafi Islamists
University of the Punjab alumni
Ahl-i Hadith people