Sheikh-ul-Hadees Dr. Syed Sher Ali Shah Madani (31 December 1930 – 30 November 2015) ( Pashto: سید شیر علی شاہ مدنی) was a Pashtun Islamic scholar.

Education

The Sheikh began learning from home, learned the Qur’an, fundamental books in Arabic and Persian with his father (Maulana Qudrat Shah) and some books of Persian poetry from Hazrat Maulana Abdul Rahim, and "Nahw and Sarf" (Arabic Grammar) from Hazrat Maulana Qazi Habib-ur-Rehman. After that, he joined the

Darul Uloom Haqqania Darul Uloom Haqqania or Jamia Dar al-Ulum Haqqania (Pashto/) is an Islamic seminary ( darul uloom or madrasa) in the town of Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan. The seminary propagates the Hanafi Deobandi scho ...

Akora Khattak Akora Khattak ( , Urdu: اکوڑہ خٹک ) or Sarai Akora is a town in the Jehangira tehsil of the Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Its location is adjacent to the Kabul River, which converges with the Indus Riv ...

. About three months after graduating from Darul Uloom Haqqania, he also studied from the teachers of Jamia Ashrafia Lahore, Sheikh Tafsir Maulana

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and Hazrat Maulana Mufti Muhammad Hassan.

Career

On 5 April 1954, he started teaching in

after graduation. After 20 years of teaching, on the advice of Shaykh-ul-Hadeeth Maulana

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, he entered the

Islamic University of Madinah The Islamic University of Madinah () is a public Islamic university in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Established by King Saud bin Abdulaziz in 1961, Sayy’id Abul Ala Maududi had played a significant role of establishing and running of Islamic Univers ...

in 1973 and studied in various fields for fifteen years and got his Master and Ph.D. degrees. He also continued teaching in the Masjid e Nabawi. After graduating from the Islamic University of Madinah, he was appointed as a teacher in

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in 1987. Later, he also taught in Mufti Zar Wali Khan's Madrasa Jamia Ahsan-ul-Uloom Gulshan-e-Iqbal Karachi and Maulana

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's Madrasa Manba-ul-Uloom,

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. Finally, at the invitation of his longtime colleague Shaykh-ul-Hadeeth Maulana

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in 1996 he came and started teaching Hadith at

Death

He died on Friday 30 October 2013, at Rehman Medical Complex, Peshawar. And on 31 October, millions of people, scholars, shaykhs, saints and students attended the funeral and were buried beside their father.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shah, Syed Sher Ali 1930 births 2015 deaths People from Nowshera District Pakistani Islamic religious leaders Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Afghan Muslim missionaries Darul Uloom Haqqania alumni Islamic University of Madinah alumni Deobandis Pakistani Muslim missionaries