Muhammad Shafi Usmani

Mufti Muhammad Shafi مفتی محمد شفیع
1st President of Darul Uloom Karachi
In office 1951 – 6 October 1976
Succeeded by	Muhammad Rafi Usmani
7th Chief Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband
In office c. 4 April 1940 – c. 23 March 1943
Preceded by	Riyazuddin Bijnori
Succeeded by	Muhammad Sahul Bhagalpuri
4th Chief Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband
In office c. 13 August 1931 – c. November 1935
Preceded by	Kifayatullah Gangohi
Succeeded by	Muhammad Faruq Ahmad
Born	c. 25 January 1897 Deoband, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died	6 October 1976(1976-10-06) (aged 79) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni Islam
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Movement	Deobandi
Notable work(s)	Ma'ariful Qur'an
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Deoband
Sufi order	Chishti (Sabiri-Imdadi)
Disciple of	Ashraf Ali Thanawi Mahmud Hasan
Influenced by Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Mahmud Hasan, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Ashraf Ali Thanawi, Azizur Rahman Usmani, Sayyid Asghar Husain, Izaz Ali Amrohi, Muhammad Ibrahim Balliyawi
Influenced Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Muhammad Rafi Usmani

Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī (Urdu: محمد شفیع بن محمد ياسین عثمانی دیوبندی‎; Arabic: محمد شفيع بن محمد ياسين العثماني الديوبندي‎‎, Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn al-‘Uthmānī ad-Diyūbandī; c. 25 January 1897 – 6 October 1976), often referred to as Mufti Muhammad Shafi, was a South Asian Sunni Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school of Islamic thought. A Hanafi jurist and mufti, he was also an authority on shari'ah, hadith, tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), and tasawwuf (Sufism). Born in Deoband, British India, he graduated in 1917 from Darul Uloom Deoband, where he later taught hadith and held the post of Chief Mufti. He resigned from the school in 1943 to devote his time to the Pakistan Movement. After the independence he moved to Pakistan, where he established Darul Uloom Karachi in 1951. Of his written works, his best-known is Ma'ariful Qur'an, a tafsir of the Qur'an.