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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| office1 = 5th Head Mufti of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1355 [[Hijri year|AH]]<br />
| term_end1 = 1357 AH<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Muhammad Shafi]]<br />
| successor1 = Kifayatullah Gangohi<br />
| module2 = {{Infobox religious biography| embed = yes<br />
|religion=[[Islam]]<br />
|honorific_prefix = Mawlāna, Mufti<br />
|name = Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri<br />
|death_date = 1948 (23 [[Rajab]] 1367 [[Hijri year|AH]])<br />
|resting_place = Pureni, [[Bhagalpur]]<br />
|denomination = Sunni Hanafi<br />
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]<br />
|movement = [[Deobandi]]<br />
|notable_works = ''Fatāwa Suhūliya''<br />
|students = [[Tajul Islam (scholar)|Tajul Islam]]<br />
}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri''' (died 1948) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the fifth [[Head Mufti]] of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri was born in Puraini, [[Bhagalpur]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rizwi |first1=Syed Mehboob |translator=Murtaz Husain F Quraishi |author-link1=Syed Mehboob Rizwi |title= Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband|trans-title= History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband |volume = 2 |page=190|edition=1981}}</ref> in a Muslim family that claimed descent from [[Uthman]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rafīq Ahmad Balākoti |title=Hadhrat Mufti Muhammad Sahool Usmani - A Biographical Sketch |journal=Darul Uloom |date=July–August 2016 |volume=100 |issue=7–8 |url=http://www.darululoom-deoband.com/urdu/magazine/new/tmp/12-MUfti%20Mohd%20Suhul_MDU_7-8_July&Aug_16.htm |access-date=7 September 2020 |publisher=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] |language=ur}}</ref><br />
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Sahool acquired his primary education at home and then studied with Ashraf Alam. He moved to Madrasa Jām'i al-Ulūm [[Kanpur]] where he studied with [[Ashraf Ali Thanwi]] and Muhammad Ishāq Burdwāni.<ref name="primary">{{cite book |last1=Rizwi |first1=Syed Mehboob |translator=Murtaz Husain F Quraishi |author-link1=Syed Mehboob Rizwi |title= Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband|trans-title= History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband |volume = 2 |page=191|edition=1980}}</ref> He then studied with Muhammad Farooq Chiryakoti at Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam.<ref name="primary"/> He went to [[Hyderabad]] where he studied logic, philosophy, astronomy, literature and [[fiqh]] with Lutfullah Aligarhi and Abd al-Wahhāb Bihāri. From Hyderabad, he moved to [[Delhi]] and attended lectures of Nazīr Hussain, and then joined [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] where he studied [[ahadith]] with [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]] and graduated from there.<ref name="primary"/><ref name="asir">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=[[Asir Adrawi]]|page=115|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Muallifeen |language=ur |edition = 2nd, April 2016}}</ref><br />
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Sahool was appointed a teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband after his graduation. He taught at the seminary for over eight years.<ref name="asir"/> He then served [[Madrasa Azizia]], [[Aliah University|Calcutta Alia Madrasah]] and [[Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah]] as a senior professor of [[hadith]] and Head Teacher.<ref name="primary"/> In 1920, he was appointed a principal at the Madrasa Alia Shamsul Huda in [[Patna]].<ref name="asir"/> Succeeding [[Muhammad Shafi]], he served as the fifth Head Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband from 1355 [[Hijri year|AH]] to 1357 AH and issued 15,185 [[fatawa]] during his tenure.<ref name="primary"/><br />
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Sahool died in 1948 (27 [[Rajab]] 1367 AH) and was buried in Pureni.<ref name="primary"/><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Dār al-Suhūl, in [[North Nazimabad]], published his book of religious edicts ''Mahmūd al-Fatāwa'', better known as ''Fatāwa Suhūliya''. The old copy of fatawa was given to Muhibbullah, a teacher of [[Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia]] by Sahool's grandson Muhammad Saadullah Usmani. Muhibullah worked on this, and got the fatawa composed and published.<ref name="fatwa">{{cite journal |author1=Editorial |title=A Review of Mahmūd al-Fatāwa |journal=Bayyināt |date=March 2017 |page=59 |url=https://www.banuri.edu.pk/bayyinat-detail/%d9%86%d9%82%d8%af-%d9%88-%d9%86%d8%b8%d8%b1-21 |access-date=7 September 2020 |publisher=[[Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia]] |language=ur}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite book |last1=Rizwi |first1=Syed Mehboob |translator=Murtaz Husain F Quraishi |author-link1=Syed Mehboob Rizwi |title= Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband |trans-title= History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband |volume = 2 |pages=190–191 |chapter= Maulana Mufti Muhammad Sahool|publisher=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] |location=[[Deoband]] |edition=1981}}<br />
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| title = Head Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband<br />
| years = 1355 [[Hijri year|AH]] - 1357 AH<br />
| before = [[Muhammad Shafi]]<br />
| after =Kifayatullah Gangohi<br />
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