Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islam Sahib

Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islām is an Islamic scholar and is the founder, principal and director of Jamiah Khatamun Nabiyeen (JKN), an Islamic school in the heart of Bradford, England, UK. He is one of the leading scholars in Bradford and is also recognised nationally for his major contributions in lectures, teachings and book writing. He is a scholar of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies. He also took up responsibilities in many other departments locally, nationally and internationally. He is also the Editor of “Al Mu’min”, a family magazine.

Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islām was born on the 17th of Rajab 1394 A.H (6 August 1974) in the small village of Duhal in the town of Bishwanath, district Sylhet, Bangladesh. His father was Muhammad Ali and his grandfather was Soyd Ali. He is the second eldest of four brothers and three sisters. He was initially given the name Shamsul Islām by the elders of his family but later his uncle kept his permanent name as Saiful Islām. On 1 March 1981, Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islām’s father decided to take the family to the UK. They settled in the city of Bradford which is situated in the Yorkshire region of England, UK.

In the year 1987 at the age of 13, Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islām successfully completed his Hifzul-Qur'an (memorisation of the Holy Qur'an) at his local Maktab, Tawak’kulia Jāmi Masjid in Bradford, UK. He also studied basic Urdu, Fiqh, Islamic History, Sarf (Etymology) and Nahwa (Syntax).

In 1988, Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islām was admitted in the grand Dārul Uloom in Bury to pursue his knowledge further in the field of Islām. This was when he first met Shaykhul Hadeeth Shaykh Yūsuf Motāla Sāhib.

Saiful Islām also studied Usoole Shariat, Arabic Literature, Advance Urdu, Fiqh, Islamic History, Sarf (Etymology) and Nahwa (Syntax) under Shāykh Mufti Tāhir Soofi (DB) and Shāykhul-Hadeeth Shāykh Sāleem Dhorāt (DB), and studied Meerāth (Inheritance) under Imāmul-Meerāth Shāykh Muhammad Umārji (RA).

In 1995 at the age of 20, Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islām graduated from Dārul Uloom Bury as an Ālim (Islamic Scholar).

In his final academic year he studied the main six books of Ahādeeth taught by prominent scholars at Dārul-Uloom, Bury. Saheeh Al-Bukhāri under Shaykhul-Hadeeth Shaykh Islāmul-Haq Muhajir Madani Sāhib (RA), Saheeh Al-Muslim by Shaykh Yūsuf Motāla Sāhib, Abū Dāwood by Shaykh Hāshim Jhoghwari Sāhib, Tirmizi by The Grand Mufti of Europe:- Shaykh Mufti Shabbir Pātel Sāhib, Nasai by Shaykh Bilāl Bawa Sāhib and Ibn Mājah by Shaykh Abdur Raheem Limbada Sāhib. In 1996 he completed his Iftā course and thus granted the title of “Mufti”.

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