Yusuf Motala

Shaikh al-Hadith Yusuf ibn Suleman ibn Qasim Motala (born 25 November 1946) is an Indian Muslim scholar of Islam. One of the students and disciples of the late Shaikh al-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhalwi,

Shaikh's father's family hails from Varethi, a village in the district of Surat, which is located in the state of Gujarat, India. Though their source of income was farming, his paternal grandfather, Qasim Motala, relinquished his land on a contract and adopted business as his source of income. Due to his premature death, Shaikh's father, Sulaiman ibn Qasim Motala, was raised in his mother's care. After reaching puberty, he started a business. His first marriage was into an honourable family of another village in the district of Surat called Hathuran. From that marriage, he had a son named Mohamed Ali. Unfortunately, this wife died within a few years, after which he married Shaikh's mother. Her family hailed from Kholwad, a village on the shores of the Tapisti River in the district of Surat. For unknown reasons, however, they shifted to the village of Nani Naroli. There, they adopted farming as their source of income. Shaikh was born at his maternal grandfather's house in Nani Naroli on the night of Monday, 25 November 1946.

Shaikh completed the recitation and memorisation of the Qur'an and studied Urdu at Madrasa Targhib al-Qur'an. In 1961, he enrolled at Jamea Hussainia, where he completed the first five years of the Alimia course. Thereafter, in 1966, Shaikh enrolled at Madhaahir al-Uloom. His classes commenced on 23 February 1966. He studied Mishkat al-Masabih under Shaikh al-Hadith Yunus Jaunpuri, Tafsir al-Jalalayn under Shaikh Muhammad Aqil, the third volume of Al-Hidayah under Mufti Yahya, and Mishkat al-Masabih for a second time under Shaikh al-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhalwi.

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