Mahmood Ashraf Usmani

Mahmood Ashraf Usmani was born on 14 May 1951 in Lahore into the Usmani family of Deoband. His father Zaki Kaifi was a poet of the Urdu language, and the eldest son of Islamic scholar Muhammad Shafi Deobandi.

Usmani began memorizing the Qur'an with Iftikhar Ahmad Qaiser, and completed memorizing it with Ronaq Ali.[1][2] He received his early education at home and graduated in the traditional Dars-i Nizami from the Jamia Ashrafia, in Lahore in 1970. He taught at the Ashrfia seminary for two years and moved to study at the University of Madinah. Meanwhile, his father Zaki Kaifi died, and he continued to teach at his alma mater Jamia Ashrafia. From 1990, he joined the Darul Uloom Karachi, where he taught Sahih al-Bukhari and held the post of Mufti.[1][3]

Usmani died in Karachi on 27 February 2022, at the age of 70.[4] His funeral prayers were offered at 11:30am at Darul Uloom Karachi, and he was buried there. JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman contacted Mufti Taqi Usmani and expressed his condolences.[5]

Usmani issued over an hundred thousand religious edicts. He authored about three dozen books on Hadith, Sufism, Fiqh and Tafsir.

• علم وحلم [Knowledge and forbearance] (3 ed.). 2001. OCLC 53937802.
• ‏حضرت معاويه اور تاريخى حقائق [Hazrat Muawiyah and historical facts] (4 ed.). 2001. OCLC 51172290.
• Amusement and play and its limits in Islam (2 ed.). 2001. OCLC 51172649.
• Bayānultafsīr : Taʻūūz, Tasmīyah aur Sūrah-yi Fātiḥah - بيان التفسير :‏ ‏تعؤز تسميه اور سوده فاتحه. 2002. OCLC 56794165.
• Aqīdah-yi Imāmat aur Ḥadīs̲-i G̲h̲adīr - ‏عقيدۀ امامت و حديث غدير‎ (3 ed.). 2005. OCLC 74986362.
• Ḣazrati Muovii︠a︡ (r.z). 2009. OCLC 472891166.

• List of Deobandis