Abul Wafa Syed Mahmūd Shah al-Qadri al-Hanafi al-Afghani^[1] (25 June 1893 – 23 July 1975), also known asAbu Wafa Al Afghani, was aHyderabad-basedAfghani Islamic scholar,Hanafi faqih, and researcher.

Abul Wafa Al-Afghani was born inQandahar on 10Dhu al-Hijjah 1310 AH (25 June 1893 AD). His father, Syed Mubarak Shah Qadri, was an Islamic scholar.^[2][3][4]

He came to India from Qandahar for study and studied with scholars in Rampur and Gujarat in his teenage years. He subsequently traveled toHyderabad, Deccan, in 1330 AH (1912) and enrolled inMadrasa Nizamia, where he graduated. His teachers includedAnwarullah Farooqui, the founder of Jamia Nizamiya and Dairat al-Maarif al-Usmania, as well as Sheikh Abdus Samad, Sheikh Abdul Karim, Sheikh Ruknuddin, and Qari Muhammad Ayyub.^[2][5]

Following graduation, Afghani was appointed as a teacher at Madrasa Nizamia, where he spent several years teaching literary Arabic, jurisprudence, and hadith.^[6]

In 1948, under his supervision and with the support of his friends, he established a committee for the revival ofNu'mani sciences,Lajnat-u-Ihya al-Ma'ārif an-Nu'maniyyah, under which he published many valuable books of the Imams of the second and third centuries ofHijri. He volunteered his time, wealth, and knowledge to the extent possible.^[6][7][8][9]

Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, who visited him, states that "there was nothing in his house except books, manuscripts, and writings. These books would be spread all around him. Abul Wafa would have only a few morsels at night, and his nights would be spent supplicating Allah."^[10]

Afghani worked on the following books:^{[11][12][13][14]}

• At-Tahawi'sMukhtasar inFiqh (in a volume)^[15][16]
• Research work on the third volume ofAl-Bukhari'sAt-Tārīkh al-Kabīr
• Al-Khassaf'sKitāb an-Nafaqāt
• Al-Sarakhsi'sUsool al-Sarakhsi^[17][18][19]
• Al-Sarakhsi'sSharh az-Ziyadāt – in 2 volumes
• Al-Dhahabi'sManaqib-u-Abi Hanifa Wa Sahibaihi Yousuf Wa Muhammad withal‑Kawthari
• Muhammad al-Shaybani'sKitab al-Hujjah Alā Ahl al-Madīnah (This book was researched byMahdi Hasan Shahjahanpuri and published in 4 volumes under the supervision of Afghani.^[20])
• Al-Shaybani'sKitāb al-Āthār^[21][22]
• Al-Shaybani'sKitab al-Asl (known as al-Mabsūt)^[23][24]
• Abu Abdullah As-Saimari (d. 1045 AD)'sAkhbār-u-Abi Hanīfa Wa Ashābihi
• Muhammad bin Yousuf As-Sālihi ash-Shāmi (d. 942 AH)'sUqūd al-Jumān Fi Manāqib Al-Imam Al-Aẓam Abi Ḥanifah Al-Numan
• Abu Yusuf'sKitāb al-Āthār^[25][18][26]
• Abu Yusuf'sKitāb ar-Radd 'Alā Siyar al-Awza'i^[27][28]
• Abu Yusuf'sIkhtilaf Abi Hanifa wa Ibn Abi Layla
• Muhammad al-Shaybani'sKitāb al-Asl
• Al-Shaybani'sAl Jami' al-Kabīr
• Al-Shaybani'sSharh Kitāb al-Āthār
• Al-Sharakhsi'sAn-Nukat on Al-Shaybani'sZiyādāt az-Ziyadāt^[29][30]

Afghani died on 13 Rajab 1395 AH (23 July 1975) in Hyderabad and was buried in Anwar-e-Naqshbandi Chaman, Misriganj, in Hyderabad.^[4][31]

• Anwarullah Farooqui
• Jamia Nizamia
• Muhammad Hamidullah

• Nizami, Muhammad Fasihuddin (October 2000).Hazrat Allama Abul Wafa al-Afghani Ahl-e-Nazar Ki Nazar Mein [Hazrat Allama Abu al-Wafa al-Afghani In the eyes of the perspicacious] (in Urdu) (1st ed.). Hyderabad:Jamia Nizamia.

• 1893 births
• 1975 deaths
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• Maturidis
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