Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami

Hadith scholar (1901–1992)

Muhaddith Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami

Title	"The Greatest Scholar of The Islamic World"
Personal
Born	1900 Mau, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died	1992(1992-00-00) (aged 90–91) Mau, Uttar Pradesh, India
Religion	Islam
Movement	Deobandi
Notable work(s)	Nusrat al-hadith, Insab wa kifa'at ki sharai haisiyat,Tahqeeq e Ahle Hadith, Rakat e Traweeh, Ta'deel Rajjal e Bukhari, Beema aur uski Shara i Ahmiyat, Husn e Adab aur uski Ahmiyat, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Ka Nazariya Hujjiyat e Hadees,^[1] Maqalat e Abul Maasir.^[2]
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Mau, Darul Uloom Deoband
Pen name	Abul Ma'sir
Profession	Muhaddith Faqih
Muslim leader
Students Sheikh Muhammad Awwamah , Zafeeruddin Miftahi, Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, Sa'id al-Afghani, Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi
Profession	Muhaddith Faqih

Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami was an Indian Islamic scholar and a researcher of Hadith. His works include the restoration of Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq.

Early life

A'zami was born in Maunath Bhanjan ,^[3] Mau district (Uttar Pradesh), India. He completed his formal education in Mau in 1922 Darul Uloom Mau and began teaching.^[3] He is known for his scholarly work on Hadith and Fiqh.^[4]

Services

A'zami's works are divided in three categories comprising Editing of Hadith manuscripts, his own original works, and those related to Polemic. He helped to bring the Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani back to attention within the Muslim world.^[5] His works include:

Kitab al-Zuhd wa’l-Raqa’iq of ‘Abd-Allah ibn Mubarak (d.181 A.H.)
Sunan of Sa’id ibn Mansur (d. 227 A.H.)
Musnad of Imam Humaydi (d. 219 A.H.)
Musannaf of ‘Abd al-Razzaq (d. 211 A.H.)
Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shaybah (d. 235 A.H.)
al-Matalib al’Aliyah^[6] of Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani (d.752 A.H.)
Majma ‘Bihar-al-Anwar of Tahir Patni (d. 986 A.H.)
al-Targhib wat-Tarhib by Mundhiri (d. 656 A.H.)
Raka’at al-Tarawih, A’lam Marfu’ah and Shari’ Haqiqi.
A’yan al-Hujjaj in two volumes, provides crisp and insightful accounts of scholar-pilgrims.
Dastakar Ahl-i Sharaf (published in 1406 A.H.) deals with the biographies of men of eminence distinction who were weavers by profession.

Legacy

Although various research scholars have made Habib al-Rahman the title of their thesis, one thesis of M.Phil. standard has been written about him. Masood Ahmad Azmi wrote ‘‘Hayat abul Ma'asir Allama Habib al-Rahman al-Azmi (حیات ابو المآثر علامہ حبیب الرحمن الاعظمی)’’ in two volumes. It has been published by Madrassa Mirqatul Uloom, Mau. It is over and about 1500 pages and discusses various aspects of the life of Maulana Azmi. Abdel-Halim Mahmoud gave him the title of "The Greatest Scholar of The Islamic World" ("اکبر علماء العالم الاسلامی").^[7]^[8]

6-7 July 2019: Institute of Objective Studies' two-day national conference on the life and contributions of Allama Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami in the Speaker Hall, Constitution Club of India, New Delhi.

References

^ "Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Ka Nazariya Hujjiyat e Hadees, سر سید احمد خان کا نظریہ".
^ "Maqalat e Abul Maasir, Maulana Habib ur Rahman Azmi, مقالات ابوالمآثر".
^ ^a ^b Muhammad Asad, Islamic Culture, vol 69. p 60.
^ Irfanullah, Dr; Mehmood, Sajid (30 June 2014). "Maulana Habib ur Rahman A l- Aazmi: Life and works (Biography)". Bannu University Research Journal in Islamic Studies. 1 (1). ISSN 2790-6493.
^ Paul Cobb, The Lineaments of Islam: Studies in Honor of Fred McGraw Donner, p. 147. ISBN 9004218858
^ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī; إبن حجر العسقلاني، أحمد بن علي، (1998). al-Maṭālib al-ʻāliyah bi-zawāʼid al-Masānīd al-thamāniyah. ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muḥsin Tuwayjirī, Saʻd ibn Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz. Shithrī, تويجري، عبد الله بن عبد المحسن., شثري، سعد بن ناصر بن عبد العزيز. (al-Ṭabʻah 1 ed.). al-Riyāḍ: Dār al-ʻĀṣimah. ISBN 9960-749-68-1. OCLC 39745401.
^ Syed, Jawad; Pio, Edwina; Kamran, Tahir; Zaidi, Abbas (9 November 2016). Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-94966-3.
^ Dr Muhammad Ghitreef Shahbaz Nadwi. Aalam-e-Islam Ke Chand Mashaheer (Sawaneh wa Afkar ka Mutala) (in Urdu) (March 2017 ed.). Rahbar Book Service, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. pp. 216–217.

External links

Habibur Rahman Azmi
Moulana Habeebur Rahman Zahid Azmi Ki Ilmi O Adabi Khidmath
Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi: Life and works (Biography)

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Syed Ahmad Barelvi (1786–1831)
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Mahmud al-Alusi (1802–1854)
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Barelvi	Asrarullah Hussaini (1856–1920) Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921) Muhammad Amjad (d. 1927) Ghulam Muhammad Dinpuri (1835–1936) Qasim Sadiq (1845–1942) Hamid Raza Khan (1875–1943) Amjad Ali Aazmi (1882–1948) Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi (1887–1948) Abdullah Barelvi (1841–1949) Jamaat Ali Shah (1834–1951) Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri (1868–1951) Kifayatullah Dehlawi (1875–1952) Shihabuddeen Ahmed Koya Shaliyathi (1885–1954) Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (1892–1954) Amin ul-Hasanat (1922–1960) Sardar Ahmad Chishti (1903–1962) Ibrahim Raza Khan (1907–1965) Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni (1898–1970) Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi (1909–1970) Fazlur Rahman Ansari (1914–1974) Ghulam Mohiuddin Ghaznavi (1902–1975) Mustafa Raza Khan (1892–1981) Ziauddin Madni (1877–1981) Khwaja Qamar ul Din Sialvi (1906–1981) Muslehuddin Siddiqui (1918–1983) Faiz-ul Hassan Shah (1911–1984) Shafee Okarvi (1930–1984) Ahmad Saeed Kazmi (1913–1986) Shujaat Ali Qadri (1941–1993) Waqaruddin Qadri (1915–1993) Abdul Wahab Siddiqi (1942–1994) Karam Shah Azhari (1918–1998) Sadruddin Islahi (1917–1998) Ghulam Ali Okarvi (1919–2000) Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (1889–2001) Arshadul Qadri (1925–2002) Ibrahim Siddiqui (1930–2002) Shah Ahmad Noorani (1926–2003) Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi (1948–2009)
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Barelvi

Asrarullah Hussaini (1856–1920)
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921)
Muhammad Amjad (d. 1927)
Ghulam Muhammad Dinpuri (1835–1936)
Qasim Sadiq (1845–1942)
Hamid Raza Khan (1875–1943)
Amjad Ali Aazmi (1882–1948)
Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi (1887–1948)
Abdullah Barelvi (1841–1949)
Jamaat Ali Shah (1834–1951)
Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri (1868–1951)
Kifayatullah Dehlawi (1875–1952)
Shihabuddeen Ahmed Koya Shaliyathi (1885–1954)
Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (1892–1954)
Amin ul-Hasanat (1922–1960)
Sardar Ahmad Chishti (1903–1962)
Ibrahim Raza Khan (1907–1965)
Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni (1898–1970)
Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi (1909–1970)
Fazlur Rahman Ansari (1914–1974)
Ghulam Mohiuddin Ghaznavi (1902–1975)
Mustafa Raza Khan (1892–1981)
Ziauddin Madni (1877–1981)
Khwaja Qamar ul Din Sialvi (1906–1981)
Muslehuddin Siddiqui (1918–1983)
Faiz-ul Hassan Shah (1911–1984)
Shafee Okarvi (1930–1984)
Ahmad Saeed Kazmi (1913–1986)
Shujaat Ali Qadri (1941–1993)
Waqaruddin Qadri (1915–1993)
Abdul Wahab Siddiqi (1942–1994)
Karam Shah Azhari (1918–1998)
Sadruddin Islahi (1917–1998)
Ghulam Ali Okarvi (1919–2000)
Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (1889–2001)
Arshadul Qadri (1925–2002)
Ibrahim Siddiqui (1930–2002)
Shah Ahmad Noorani (1926–2003)
Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi (1948–2009)

Deobandi

Imamuddin Punjabi (died 1916)
Abdul Hamid Madarshahi (1869–1920)
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851–1920)
Sufi Azizur Rahman (1862–1922)
Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri (1852–1927)
Muhammad Ali Mungeri (1846–1927)
Azizur Rahman Usmani (1859–1928)
Muhammad Ahmad Nanautawi (1862–1930)
Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1872–1931)
Anwar Shah Kashmiri (1875–1933)
Sayyid Mumtaz Ali (1860–1935)
Majid Ali Jaunpuri (d. 1935)
Abul Muhasin Sajjad (1880–1940)
Shukrullah Mubarakpuri (1895–1942)
Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943)
Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943)
Habibullah Qurayshi (1865–1943)
Ubaidullah Sindhi (1872–1944)
Ilyas Kandhlawi (1885–1944)
Asghar Hussain Deobandi (1877–1945)
Sahool Bhagalpuri (d. 1948)
Sulaiman Nadvi (1884–1953)
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (1887–1949)
Izaz Ali Amrohi (1882–1955)
Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1892–1956)
Hussain Ahmed Madani (1879–1957)
Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi (1888–1959)
Badre Alam Merathi (1898–1965)
Azizul Haq (1903–1961)
Maqsudullah (1883–1961)
Abdul Qadir Raipuri (1878–1962)
Ahmed Ali Lahori (1887–1962)
Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi (1900–1962)
Yusuf Kandhlawi (1917–1965)
Shah Ahmad Hasan (1882–1967)
Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896–1969)
Khair Muhammad Jalandhari (1895–1970)
Muhammad Ali Jalandhari (1895–1971)
Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (1907–1971)
Abdur Rahman Kashgari (1912–1971)
Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889–1972)
Deen Muhammad Khan (1900–1974)
Zafar Ahmad Usmani (1892–1974)
Muhammad Miyan Deobandi (1903–1975)
Ibrahim Balyawi (1887–1976)
Muhammad Faizullah (1892–1976)
Abdul Wahhab Pirji (1895–1976)
Athar Ali Bengali (1891–1976)
Shafi Usmani (1897–1976)
Yusuf Banuri (1908–1977)
Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915–1977)
Ahmed Ali Badarpuri (1915–2000)
Mehboob Rizwi (1911–1979)
Sahvi Shah (1923–1979)
Mufti Mehmood (1919–1980)
Shah Abd al-Wahhab (1894–1982)
Zakariyya Kandhlawi (1898–1982)
Tayyib Qasmi (1897–1983)
Shamsul Haq Afghani (1901–1983)
Ibrahim Chatuli (1894–1984)
Atiqur Rahman Usmani (1901–1984)
Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908–1985)
Azhar Shah Qaiser (1920–1985)
Harun Babunagari (1902–1986)
Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900–1986)
Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi (1910–1987)
Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895–1987)
Abdul Aziz Malazada (1917–1987)
Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897–1988)
Abdul Haq Akorwi (1912–1988)
Abdul Jalil Badarpuri (1925–1989)
Abdul Matin Fulbari (1915–1990)
Minnatullah Rahmani (1913–1991)
Taqi Amini (1926–1991)
Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami (1900–1992)
Muhammad Yunus (1906–1992)
Masihullah Khan (1912–1992)
Abul Hasan Jashori (1918–1993)
Shams Naved Usmani (1931–1993)
Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi (1918–1995)
Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (1907–1996)
Athar Mubarakpuri (1916–1996)
Shamsuddin Qasemi (1935–1996)
Manzoor Nomani (1905–1997)
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (1914–1997)
Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi (1935–1998)
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (1913–1999)
Ismail Katki (1914–2005)
Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924–2005)
Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928–2005)
Kafilur Rahman Nishat Usmani (1942–2006)
Syed Fazlul Karim (1935–2006)
Abdullah Abbas Nadwi (1925–2006)
Sirajussajidin Katki (1939–2006)
Abrarul Haq Haqqi (1920–2006)
Ubaidul Haq (1928–2007)
Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927–2008)
Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri (1934–2008)

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Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1867–1921)
Azimuddin Hanafi (1838–1922)
Medeni Mehmet Nuri Efendi (1859–1927)
Hamiduddin Farahi (1863–1930)
Machiliwale Shah (d. 1932)
Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (1875–1935)
Meher Ali Shah (1859–1937)
Ghulamur Rahman Maizbhandari (1865–1937)
Muhammad Ishaq (1883–1938)
Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1845–1939)
Abd Allah Siraj (1876–1949)
Khwaja Yunus Ali (1886–1951)
Nesaruddin Ahmad (1873–1952)
Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (1879–1952)
Mustafa Sabri (1869–1954)
Ghousi Shah (1893–1954)
Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898–1959)
Abdul Batin Jaunpuri (1900–1973)
Momtazuddin Ahmad (1889–1974)
Muhammad Abu Zahra (1898–1974)
Amimul Ehsan Barkati (1911–1974)
Ghulam Mohiyuddin Gilani (1891–1974)
Abul Wafa Al Afghani (1893–1975)
Abdul Majid Daryabadi (1892–1977)
Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979)
Abdur Rahim Firozpuri (1918–1987)
Muntakhib al-Haqq (fl. 1980s)
Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh (1915–1990)
Ahmed Muhyuddin Nuri Shah Jilani (1915–1990)
Sayed Moazzem Hossain (1901–1991)
Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi (1909–1992)
Ayub Ali (1919–1995)
Mukhtar Ashraf (1916–1996)
Abdul Haque Faridi (1903–1996)
Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi (1917–1997)
Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda (1917–1997)
Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904–1997)
Ghulam Moinuddin Gilani (1920–1997)
Naeem Siddiqui (1916–2002)
Abdul Latif Fultali (1913–2008)
Muhammad Abdullah (1932–2008)
Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani (1949–2009)

15th/21st

Israr Ahmed (1932–2010)

Marghubur Rahman (1914–2010)

Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1945–2010)

Zafeeruddin Miftahi (1926–2011)

Azizul Haque (1919–2012)

Abdus Sattar Akon (1929–2012)

Shah Saeed Ahmed Raipuri (1926–2012)

Fazlul Haque Amini (1945–2012)

Wahbi Sulayman Ghawji (1923–2013)

Muhammad Fazal Karim (1954–2013)

Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (1933–2013)

Zubairul Hasan Kandhlawi (1950–2014)

Nurul Islam Farooqi (1959–2014)

Ahmad Naruyi (1963–2014)

Asad Muhammad Saeed as-Sagharji (d. 2015)

Abdur Rahman Chatgami (1920–2015)

Abdul Majeed Ludhianvi (1935–2015)

Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari (1935–2015)

Sibtain Raza Khan (1927–2015)

Muhiuddin Khan (1935–2016)

Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937–2016)

Shah Turab-ul-Haq (1944–2016)

Saleemullah Khan (1921–2017)

Yunus Jaunpuri (1937–2017)

Alauddin Siddiqui (1938–2017)

Muhammad Abdul Wahhab (1923–2018)

Salim Qasmi (1926–2018)

Akhtar Raza Khan (1943–2018)

Iftikhar-ul-Hasan Kandhlawi (1922–2019)

Yusuf Motala (1946–2019)

Ghulam Nabi Kashmiri (1965–2019)

Khalid Mahmud (1925–2020)

Tafazzul Haque Habiganji (1938–2020)

Muhammad Abdus Sobhan (1936–2020)

Abdul Momin Imambari (1930–2020)

Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (1940–2020)

Salman Mazahiri (1946–2020)

Shah Ahmad Shafi (1945–2020)

Adil Khan (1957–2020)

Khadim Hussain Rizvi (1966–2020)

Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945–2020)

Azizur Rahman Hazarvi (1948–2020)

Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (1926–2021)

Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni (1930–2021)

Muhammad Wakkas (1952–2021)

Noor Alam Khalil Amini (1952–2021)

Usman Mansoorpuri (1944–2021)

Junaid Babunagari (1953–2021)

Wali Rahmani (1943–2021)

Ebrahim Desai (1963–2021)

Abdus Salam Chatgami (1943–2021)

Abdur Razzaq Iskander (1935–2021)

Nurul Islam Jihadi (1916–2021)

Faizul Waheed (1964–2021)

Wahiduddin Khan (1925–2021)

AbdulWahid Rigi (d. 2022)

Abdul Halim Bukhari (1945–2022)

Rafi Usmani (1936–2022)

Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (1940–2023)

Shahidul Islam (1960–2023)

Living

Saifur Rahman Nizami (b. 1916)
Ghulam Rasool Jamaati (b. 1923)
Syed Waheed Ashraf (b. 1933)
Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani (b. 1935)
Muhibbullah Babunagari (b. 1935)
Ziaul Mustafa Razvi Qadri (b. 1935)
Abdul Qadir Pakistani (b. 1935)
Yusuf Ziya Kavakçı (b. 1938)
Madni Miyan (b. 1938)
Sultan Zauq Nadvi (b. 1939)
Zia Uddin (b. 1941)
Taqi Usmani (b. 1943)
Kamaluddin Zafree (b. 1945)
Muneeb-ur-Rehman (b. 1945)
Qamaruzzaman Azmi (b. 1946)
Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi (b. 1946)
Abul Qasim Nomani (b. 1947)
Idrees Dahiri (b. 1947)
Farid Uddin Chowdhury (b. 1947)
Farid Uddin Masood (b. 1950)
Mahmudul Hasan (b. 1950)
Mukhtaruddin Shah (b. 1950)
Ilyas Qadri (b. 1950)
Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi (b. 1951)
Tahir-ul-Qadri (b. 1951)
Yaseen Akhtar Misbahi (b. 1953)
Tariq Jamil (b. 1953)
Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi (b. 1953)
Sufyan Qasmi (b. 1954)
Nurul Islam Walipuri (b. 1955)
Sajjad Nomani (b. 1955)
Ghousavi Shah (b. 1955)
Ameen Mian Quadri (b. 1955)
Pir Sabir Shah (b. 1955)
Abu Taher Misbah (b. 1956)
Kaukab Noorani Okarvi (b. 1957)
Hamid Saeed Kazmi (b. 1957)
Rahmatullah Mir Qasmi (b. 1957)
AFM Khalid Hossain (b. 1959)
Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari (b. 1959)
Abdul Aziz Ghazi]] (b. 1960)
Shakir Ali Noori (b. 1960)
Ruhul Amin (b. 1962)
Mizanur Rahman Sayed (b. 1963)
Hanif Jalandhari (b. 1963)
Sajidur Rahman (b. 1964)
Ibrahim Mogra (b. 1965)
Saad Kandhlawi (b. 1965)
Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi (b. 1967)
Arshad Misbahi (b. 1968)
Abu Reza Nadwi (b. 1968)
Muhammad Abdul Malek (b. 1969)
Mahfuzul Haque (b. 1969)
Ilyas Ghuman (b. 1969)
Qasim Rashid Ahmad (b. 1970)
Asjad Raza Khan (b. 1970)
Syed Rezaul Karim (b. 1971)
Riyadh ul Haq (b. 1971)
Obaidullah Hamzah (b. 1972)
Raza Saqib Mustafai (b. 1972)
Manzoor Mengal (b. 1973)
Syed Faizul Karim (b. 1973)
Mamunul Haque (b. 1973)
Husamuddin Fultali (b. 1974)
Abdur Rahman Mangera (b. 1974)
Faraz Rabbani (b. 1974)
Adnan Kakakhail (b. 1975)
Muhammad al-Kawthari (b. 1976)
Amer Jamil (b. 1977)
Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi (b. 1982)
Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury (b. 1985)
Abbas Siddiqui (b. 1987)
Kaif Raza Khan (b. 2001)
Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi
Tauqeer Raza Khan
Subhan Raza Khan
Abdul Malek Halim
Izharul Islam Chowdhury
Amjad M. Mohammed
Anwar-ul-Haq Haqqani
Mukarram Ahmad
Abdul Khabeer Azad
Muzaffar Qadri

Scholars of other Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence

Hanbali
Maliki
Shafi'i
Zahiri

Maturidi school of Sunni theology

Maturidi scholars

3rd AH/9th AD	Abu Bakr al-Samarqandi (d. 268 AH) Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 333 AH) Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi (d. 342 AH) Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi (d. 379 AH) Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 396 AH)
4th AH/10th AD	Abu Zayd al-Dabusi (d. 429 AH) Ali Hujwiri (d. 464 AH) Yūsuf Balasaguni (d. 469 AH) Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawi (d. 482 AH) Al-Sarakhsi (d. 483 AH) Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 493 AH)
5th AH/11th AD	Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi (d. 508 AH) Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari (d. 534 AH) Yusuf Hamadani (d. 535 AH) Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami (d. 536 AH) Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 537 AH) Ahmad Yasawi (d. 561 AH) Nur al-Din Zengi (d. 569 AH) Siraj al-Din al-Ushi (d. 575 AH) Nur al-Din al-Sabuni (d. 580 AH) Fatima al-Samarqandi (d. 581 AH) Al-Kasani (d. 587 AH) Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (d. 593 AH)
6th AH/12th AD	Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi (d. beginning of the 6th century AH) Al-Mu'azzam 'Isa (d. 624 AH) Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (d. 632 AH) Mu'in al-Din Chishti (d. 633 AH) Saif ed-Din al-Boharsi (d. 659 AH) Fariduddin Ganjshakar (d. 664 AH) Rumi (d. 671 AH) Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (d. after 690 AH)
7th AH/13th AD	Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi (d. 710 AH) Sultan Walad (d. 711 AH) Nizamuddin Auliya (d. 725 AH) Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 747 AH) Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 786 AH) Baha' al-Din Naqshband (d. 791 AH) Kadi Burhan al-Din (d. 800 AH)
8th AH/14th AD	Bande Nawaz (d. 825 AH) Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 834 AH) 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (d. 841 AH) Yaqub al-Charkhi (d. 851 AH) Ahmad ibn Arabshah (d. 861 AH) Badr al-Din al-'Ayni (d. 855 AH) Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (d. 861 AH) Khidr Bey (d. 863 AH) Ali al-Bistami (d. 874 AH) 'Ali al-Qushji (d. 879 AH) Mehmed II (d. 886 AH) Khwaja Ahrar (d. 895 AH)
9th AH/15th AD	Ali-Shir Nava'i (d. 906 AH) Husayn Kashifi (d. 910 AH) Ibn Kemal (d. 940 AH) Abdul Quddus Gangohi (d. 943 AH) Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (d. 955 AH) Taşköprüzade (d. 968 AH) Muhammad Birgivi (d. 980 AH) Ebussuud Efendi (d. 982 AH)
10th AH/16th AD	Khwaja Baqi Billah (d. 1011 AH) 'Ali al-Qari (d. 1014 AH) Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari (d. 1025 AH) Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1034 AH) Mahmud Hudayi (d. 1037 AH) 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (d. 1052 AH) Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (d. 1061 AH) 'Abd al-Hakim al-Siyalkoti (d. 1067 AH) Wang Daiyu (d. around 1068 AH) Kâtip Çelebi (d. 1068 AH) Shihab al-Din al-Khafaji (d. 1069 AH) Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1081 AH)
11th AH/17th AD	Aurangzeb (d. 1118 AH) Ma Zhu (d. around 1123 AH) Ismail Haqqi Bursevi (d. 1127 AH) Shah Abdur Rahim (d. 1131 AH) Liu Zhi of Nanjing (d. 1158 AH, or 1178 AH) Nizamuddin Sihalivi (d. 1161 AH) Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (d. 1174 AH) Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d. 1176 AH) 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1176 AH) İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (d. 1193 AH) Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (d. 1195 AH)
12th AH/18th AD	Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi (d. 1204 AH) Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1205 AH) Sanaullah Panipati (d. 1225 AH) Ghabdennasir Qursawi (d. 1226 AH) Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (d. 1239 AH) Shah Abdul Aziz (d. 1239 AH) Shah Ismail Dehlvi (d. 1246 AH) Syed Ahmad Barelvi (d. 1246 AH) Ibn 'Abidin (d. 1252 AH) Muhammad 'Abid al-Sindi (d. 1257 AH) Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (d. 1267 AH) Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (d. 1278 AH) Yusuf Ma Dexin (d. 1291 AH) Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (d. 1297 AH) Naqi Ali Khan (d. 1297 AH) 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani (d. 1298 AH)
13th AH/19th AD	'Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (d. 1304 AH) Shihab al-Din al-Marjani (d. 1306 AH) Rahmatullah al-Kairanawi (d. 1308 AH) Giritli Sırrı Pasha (d. 1312 AH) Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (d. 1312 AH) Imdadullah Muhajir Makki (d. 1317 AH) Abai Qunanbaiuly (d. 1321 AH) Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (d. 1323 AH) Ahmad Hasan Amrohi (d. 1330 AH) Muhammad Anwaarullah Farooqui (d. 1335 AH) Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (d. 1338 AH) Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (d. 1340 AH) Shakarim Qudayberdiuli (d. 1344 AH) Muhammad Ali Mungeri (d. 1346 AH) Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri (d. 1346 AH) Anwar Shah Kashmiri (d. 1352 AH) Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti'i (d. 1354 AH) Fatma Aliye Topuz (d. 1354 AH) Meher Ali Shah (d. 1356 AH) Muhammed Hamdi Yazır (d. 1361 AH) Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d. 1361 AH) Ubaidullah Sindhi (d. 1364 AH) Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (d. 1368 AH) Musa Bigiev (d. 1368 AH) Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (d. 1371 AH) Kifayatullah Dehlawi (d. 1371 AH) Mustafa Sabri (d. 1373 AH) Husayn Ahmad al-Madani (d. 1377 AH) Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan (d. 1378 AH) Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen (d. 1391 AH) Muhammad Abu Zahra (d. 1394 AH) Muhammad Shafi' Deobandi (d. 1395 AH) Abul Wafa Al Afghani (d. 1395 AH) Abdul Majid Daryabadi (d. 1397 AH)
14th AH/20th AD	Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi (d. 1402 AH) Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi (d. 1403 AH) Abdul Haq Akorwi (d. 1409 AH) Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi (d. 1412 AH) Muhammad Ayyub Ali (d. 1415 AH) Anzar Shah Kashmiri (d. 1428 AH) Wahbah al-Zuhayli (d. 1436 AH) Muhammad Salim Qasmi (d. 1439 AH) Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (d. 1441 AH) Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni (d. 1442 AH) Nur Hossain Kasemi (d. 1442 AH) Usmankhan Alimov (d. 1443 AH) Muhammad Rafi' Usmani Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Muhammad Taqi Usmani Husein Kavazović Salah Mezhiev