Vivek.Dantkale: creating new pg

2026-04-03T09:56:12Z

creating new pg

New page

{{Short description|Indian Deobandi mufti, hadith teacher and author (born 1954)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2025}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|honorific_prefix=Maulana, Mufti
|name=Muhammad Yusuf Taʾulawī
|native_name=محمد یوسف تاؤلوی
|native_name_lang=ur
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=y|1954|9|9}}
|birth_place=Tawli, [[Muzaffarnagar district]], Uttar Pradesh, India
|nationality=Indian
|occupation=Islamic scholar, jurist, teacher, author, poet
|main_interests=Hadith, fiqh, kalam, tafsir, Urdu poetry
|era=Contemporary
|religion=[[Islam]]
|denomination=Sunni
|jurisprudence=Hanafi
|movement=[[Deobandi]]
|alma_mater=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
|parents=Azīmuddin (father)
}}

'''Muhammad Yusuf Taʾulawī'''{{Efn|{{langx|ur|{{nastaliq|محمد یوسف تاؤلوی}}}}}} (born 9 September 1954), generally written as '''Mufti Yusuf Tawli''', is an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar of the Deobandi tradition, a mufti, and a long-serving teacher of hadith and fiqh at [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], where he also held academic administrative roles including ''Nazim-e-Taʿlimat'' (2016–2019). He has authored more than two dozen works in Urdu and Arabic—among them the multi-volume ''al-Fatāwā al-Yūsufiyyah'', ''Ashraf al-Hidāyah'' (on the fourth part of ''al-Hidāyah''), and commentaries on [[Tafsir al-Baydawi]] and [[Shah Waliullah Dehlawi|al-Fawz al-Kabir]]. Taʾulawī’s Urdu poetry has been anthologized in Nadīm Aḥmad Anṣārī’s ''Shiʿr-i Faqīh'' (2019). Spiritually, he is a recognized ''khalīfah'' of [[Mahmood Hasan Gangohi]], and he established the publishing house ''Maktabah Faqīh al-Ummat'' for issuing his and others' scholarly works.

==Early life and education==
Muhammad Yusuf Taʾulawī was born on 9 September 1954{{Efn|Some Urdu and Arabic sources give 1956 (1375 AH) as the year of birth;{{Sfn|Subḥānī Muẓāhirī|2021|p=547}}{{Sfn|Mubarakpuri|2021|p=440}}{{Sfn|Rampuri|2022|p=273}} this page follows the date 9 September 1954 per Khalili Qasmi.{{Sfn|Khalili Qasmi|2020|p=689}}}} in Tawli, [[Muzaffarnagar district]], Uttar Pradesh, to Azīmuddin.{{Sfn|Khalili Qasmi|2020|p=689}}

He received his early education at Darul Uloom Husainiya, Tawli. In 1972 (1392 AH), he enrolled at [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] and graduated from the final hadith class (''Dawrah-yi Hadith'') in 1974 (1394 AH). He completed ''ifta'' training the following year under [[Mahmood Hasan Gangohi]].{{Sfn|Khalili Qasmi|2020|p=689}}{{Sfn|Subḥānī Muẓāhirī|2021|p=547}}

His hadith teachers included: [[Sharif Hasan Deobandi]] (''[[Sahih al-Bukhari]]'', Part I), Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (''Bukhari'', Part II), Abdul Ahad (''[[Sahih Muslim]]''), Sharif Hasan Deobandi (''[[Jami' al-Tirmidhi]]''), Muhammad Husain Bihari (''[[Sunan Abi Dawud]]''), Naʻim Ahmad Deobandi (''[[Sunan al-Nasa'i]]''), [[Naseer Ahmad Khan (scholar)|Naseer Ahmad Khan]] ([[Tahawi]]'s ''Sharh Maʻani al-Athar''), [[Mirajul Haq Deobandi]] (''[[Shama'il at-Tirmidhi]]''), [[Nizamuddin Azami]] (''[[Muwatta Imam Malik]]''), and [[Anzar Shah Kashmiri]] ([[al-Shaybani]]'s ''Muwatta''). In ''ifta'' he further studied with Nizamuddin Aʻzami and Ahmad ʻAli Saeed Nagīnavi.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Muzaffarnagari|first1=Muhammad Taslim ʻArifi|last2=Saharanpuri|first2=Abdullah Sher Khan|title=Asātizah Dār al-ʻUlūm wa Asānīdihim fī al-Ḥadīth|trans-title=Teachers of Darul Uloom and Their Chains in Hadith|url=https://archive.org/details/20240305_20240305_1203#86|publisher=Maktabat al-Ḥaramayn|location=Deoband|date=2023|edition=2nd|page=87|language=ur}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Subḥānī Muẓāhirī|first1=Muhammad Kauthar ʻAli|title=al-Jawhar al-Mufīd fī Taḥqīq al-Asānīd: yāʻnī Tazkirah-i Muḥaddithīn aur un kī sanadain|trans-title=The Useful Jewel in Authentication of Chains: Register of Hadith Scholars and Their Chains|url=https://archive.org/details/al-jauhar-al-mufeed-fi-tahqiq-al-asanid#547|publisher=Jāmiʻat al-Falāḥ Dār al-ʻUlūm al-Islāmiyyah|location=[[Forbesganj]], Araria, Bihar|edition=1st|date=December 2021|pages=547–548|language=ur}}</ref>

==Career==
After graduation, Taʾulawī taught for three years at Madrasa Muradiya, Muzaffarnagar, and then for seven years at Darul Uloom Chilla, [[Amroha]], where he taught senior classes including hadith texts.{{Sfn|Muzaffarnagari|Saharanpuri|2023|pp=87–88}}

He was appointed a teacher at [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] in Shawwal 1405 AH (July 1985), progressed to the senior (''ʻulyā'') level by 1430 AH (2009), and additionally served for many years as superintendent of the student hostel (''Nazim Dar al-Iqama''). He was appointed ''Nazim Taʻlimat'' (head of academic affairs) in Safar 1438 AH (November 2016) and served until Dhu al-Qa'dah 1440 AH (July 2019).<ref>{{cite book|last=Khalili Qasmi|first=Muhammadullah|author-link=Muhammadullah Khalili Qasmi|title=Dar al-ʻUloom Deoband ki Jāmiʻ wa Mukhtaṣar Tārīkh|trans-title=The Comprehensive and Concise History of Darul Uloom Deoband|url=https://archive.org/details/darul-uloom-deob-ki-jamey-wa-mukhtasar-tareekh-edition-2#689|publisher=Sheikh al-Hind Academy|location=Deoband|date=October 2020|edition=2nd|pages=690, 752, 768, 788|language=ur|oclc=1345466013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=दारुल उलूम में दाखिलों के लिए दिए निर्देश|trans-title=Guidelines issued for admissions at Darul Uloom|work=[[Amar Ujala]]|date=16 May 2017|url=https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/saharanpur/darul-uloom-mein-diye-daakhilon-ke-liye-nirdesh|language=hi|access-date=4 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Mishra|first=Nawal|title=दारुल उलूम में तालीम के दौरान छात्रों के लिए एंड्रायड फोन पर पाबंदी|trans-title=Ban on Android phones for students during studies at Darul Uloom|work=[[Dainik Jagran]]|date=27 July 2017|url=https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/saharanpur-android-phones-banned-for-students-during-study-period-in-darul-uloom-16444630.html|language=hi|access-date=4 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Amin |first=Ruhul |date=15 November 2016 |title=দারুল উলুম দেওবন্দের নতুন শিক্ষাসচিব মুফতি ইউসুফ |trans-title=Mufti Yusuf is the new education secretary of Darul Uloom Deoband |url=https://sylhetreport.com/?p=5001 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=Sylhet Report |language=bn}}</ref>

He also established a publishing house, Maktabah Faqīh al-Ummat, through which a number of his works and other scholarly writings have been issued.<ref>{{cite news |last=Qasmi |first=Farooq Azam|title=Darul Uloom Deoband aur Urdu Zaban|trans-title=Darul Uloom Deoband and the Urdu Language |url=https://urdu.millattimes.com/archives/7965 |work=[[Millat Times]] |date=18 January 2017 |language=ur |access-date=7 September 2025}}</ref>

=== Poetry ===
He was also known for his Urdu poetry. A chapter on his poetic contributions is included in Nadīm Aḥmad Anṣārī's work ''Shiʿr-i Faqīh: Deoband se wābastah baʿẓ mashhūr muftiyān-i kirām aur unkī Urdū shāʻirī kā taz̲kirah'' (2019), covering pages 244–265.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Anṣārī |first=Nadīm Aḥmad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQ0vzgEACAAJ |title=Shiʻr-i faqīh: Deoband se wābastah baʻẓ mashhūr muftiyān-i kirām aur unkī Urdū shāʻirī kā taz̲kirah |date=2019 |publisher=al-Falāḥ Islāmik Fāʼūnḍeshan |isbn=978-93-5351-187-6 |location=[[Mumbai]] |oclc=1233023145 |language=ur |trans-title=Shi'r–e–Faqīh: A discussion on some renowned muftis associated with Deoband and their Urdu poetry |pages=244–265|chapter=Muftī Muḥammad Yūsuf Tāʾulawī aur un kī Urdū shāʿirī|trans-chapter=Mufti Muhammad Yusuf Taulawi and His Urdu Poetry}}</ref>

=== Spiritual affiliation ===
In 1395 AH (1975 CE), Taʾulawī pledged allegiance (''bayʿah'') to his teacher [[Mahmood Hasan Gangohi]] for spiritual training (''tazkiyah wa sulūk''). He regularly corresponded with him to seek guidance and spent extended periods, including the month of Ramadan, in his company. In 1403 AH (1983 CE), he received authorization (''[[Ijazah|ijāzah]]'') and ''khilāfah'' from Gangohi, and was subsequently included among his recognized deputies (''khulafāʾ'').<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rampuri|first1=Riyasat ʻAli Qasmi|title=Faqīh al-Ummat Ḥaḍrat Aqdas Mawlānā Mufti Maḥmūd Ḥasan Gangohī aur un ke Khulafāʼ-i ʻĀlī Maqām|trans-title=Faqih al-Ummat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi and His Eminent Deputies|publisher=Maktabah al-ʻĀfiyah|location=[[Amroha]], Uttar Pradesh|date=2022|volume=1|pages=275–276|language=ur}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/hadhrat-mufti-mahmood-hasan-gangohi-his-life-and-works-unknown-author-ebooks#245 |title=Hadhrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi: His Life and Works |publisher=Ta'limi Board Kzn |edition=First |location=[[Isipingo Beach]], South Africa |publication-date=February 2011 |page=237 |language=en}}</ref>

In April 2024, Bangladeshi media reported that Taʾulawī was among the senior scholars who joined Shaykh Ibrāhīm Afrīqī's Ramadan [[iʿtikāf]] and related programs in Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=শায়খ ইব্রাহিম আফ্রিকী আজ সাইনবোর্ড জামিয়াতু ইবরাহীমে ইসলাহী বয়ান করবেন |trans-title=Shaykh Ibrahim Afriki to deliver an islahi lecture today at Signboard Jamia Ibrahim |url=https://www.ourislam24.com/Dawah/article/49021/ |work=OurIslam24 |date=17 April 2024 |language=bn |access-date=8 September 2025}}</ref> Later that year, he was also listed among the scholars addressing the annual two-day ''Islāḥī Jor'' gathering at Darul Uloom Madaninagar, Dhaka.<ref>{{cite news |title=মাদানীনগর মাদরাসায় ২ দিনব্যাপী 'ইসলাহী জোড়' শুরু |trans-title=Two-day ‘Islahi Jor’ begins at Madaninagar Madrasa |url=https://www.ourislam24.com/feature/article/54055/ |work=OurIslam24 |date=15 November 2024 |language=bn |access-date=8 September 2025}}</ref>

=== Views on Palestine ===
In November 2023, Taʾulawī addressed an online conference on [[al-Quds]], where he described the protection of [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]] as a collective religious duty of Muslims and urged unity on the issue.<ref>{{cite news |title=فلسطین کا مسئلہ حرم قدسی سے جڑا ہوا ہے اور مسجد اقصیٰ کی حفاظت تمام مسلمانوں کا ملی و دینی فریضہ ہے |trans-title=The issue of Palestine is tied to al-Haram al-Qudsi, and protection of al-Aqsa Mosque is a collective and religious duty of all Muslims |url=https://www.baseeratonline.com/archives/207309 |work=Baseerat Online |date=1 December 2023 |language=ur |access-date=3 September 2025}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
Taʾulawī has authored more than two dozen works ranging from multi-volume commentaries to concise treatises. His writings cover [[fiqh]], [[kalam|theology]], [[tafsir]], [[hadith studies|hadith]], logic and grammar.{{Sfn|Rampuri|2022|pp=276–279}}{{Sfn|Subḥānī Muẓāhirī|2021|p=548}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mubarakpuri|first1=Muhammad ʻArif Jamil|author-link1=Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri|title=Mawsūʻat ʻUlamāʼ Dīyūband|trans-title=Encyclopaedia of Deoband Scholars|publisher=Sheikh al-Hind Academy|location=Deoband|date=2021|edition=1st|chapter=1014 – at-Taʼulawī|page=440|language=ar}}</ref>
Among his major works are:
* ''al-Fatāwā al-Yūsufiyyah'' (four-volume compendium of fatwas)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rahmani |first=Muhammad Jafar Milli |url=https://archive.org/details/BestUrduBooks11/AHAM-MASAIL-PART-2/page/n267/mode/1up |title=al-Masāʾil al-Muhimmah fīmā Ibtalat bihi al-ʿĀmmah |publisher=[[Jamia Islamia Ishaatul Uloom]] |year=2013 |edition=3rd |location=[[Akkalkuwa]], Nandurbar |page=268 |language=ur}}</ref>{{Sfn|Mubarakpuri|2021|p=440}}{{Sfn|Subḥānī Muẓāhirī|2021|p=548}}
* ''Ashraf al-Hidāyah'' (a four-volume Urdu commentary on the fourth part of ''[[Al-Hidayah|al-Hidāyah]]'', from ''Kitāb [[Shufa (Islam)|al-Shufʿah]]'' to the end){{Sfn|Rampuri|2022|p=277}}<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Qadir |first=Ammara |title=Maulana Jameel Ahmad Sikrodvi ki bator sharih fiqhi khidmaat ka jaeza |date=October 2021 |access-date=7 September 2025 |type=MPhil thesis |publisher=[[Government College Women University Faisalabad]] |url=https://www.islamictube.in/downloadbook/free-download-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%88%DA%BE%D9%88%DB%8C-%DA%A9%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AD-%D9%81%D9%82%DB%81%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA-%DA%A9%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%DB%81-pdf/5485 |language=ur |page=84 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250907022542/https://www.islamictube.in/downloadbook/free-download-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%88%DA%BE%D9%88%DB%8C-%DA%A9%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AD-%D9%81%D9%82%DB%81%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA-%DA%A9%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%DB%81-pdf/5485 |archive-date=7 September 2025 |trans-title=Maulana Jameel Ahmad Sikrodvi's Services as a Commentator on Fiqh |location=[[Faislabad]], Pakistan|id=2019-GCWUF-0159}}</ref>
* ''Jawāhir al-Farāʾid sharḥ Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid'' (detailed commentary on [[Al-Taftazani|al-Taftāzānī]]'s ''[[Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Nasafiyya|Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid]]''){{Sfn|Rampuri|2022|p=276}}
* ''Badāʾiʿ al-Kalām fī Bayān ʿAqāʾid al-Islām'' (on [[Islamic creed]] and [[kalam|kalām]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 June 2021 |title=الاختلافات الأصليّة بين عقيدة أهل السُنة الديوبندية والفرقة الوهابية |url=https://www.alwahabiyah.com/ar/Articleview/26394/ |access-date=3 September 2025 |website=Al Wahabiyah |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Beda'ul kelam fi beyani akaidil islam- بدائع الكلام في بيان عقائد الاسلام |url=https://arapcakitaplar.com/arapca-kitap-kategorileri/2202-beda-ul-kelam-fi-beyani-akaidil-islam-.html |access-date=2025-09-03 |website=Arapça Kitaplar |language=tr}}</ref>
* ''Taqrīrāt al-Taʾulawī ʿalā Tafsīr al-Bayḍāwī'' (Urdu commentary on [[Tafsir al-Baydawi]], popularly known as ''Dars-i Bayḍāwī''){{Sfn|Rampuri|2022|p=277}}
* ''Fayḍ al-Khabīr'' (Urdu commentary on [[Shah Waliullah Dehlawi|Shah Waliullah al-Dehlawi]]’s ''al-Fawz al-Kabīr''){{Sfn|Rampuri|2022|p=277}}
* ''al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyyah al-Maḥmūdah'' (critical edition of Abū al-Kalām Shafīq al-Qāsimī's text)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-02 |title=القواعد الفقهية المحمودة (WORD) |url=http://www.alukah.net/library/0/95377/ |access-date=2025-09-06 |website=www.alukah.net |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=al-Falāḥī |first1=ʿĪsā Aḥmad Ḥamal |last2=ʿAlī |first2=Inās ʿAbd al-Razzāq |date=September 2020 |title=Tawqīʿāt al-Khulafāʾ wa-al-Umaraʾ wa-al-Quḍāt – Dirāsah Fiqhiyyah |trans-title=Signatures of Caliphs, Princes and Judges: A Doctrinal Study |url=https://iasj.rdd.edu.iq/journals/uploads/2025/02/07/658d2cf630f0fb6b1716680eece09c3f.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Surra Man Raʾā |language=ar |location=[[Samarra]], Iraq |publisher=[[Samarra University|University of Samarra]], College of Education |volume=16 |issue=64 |page=180 |issn=1813-1735 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250908000621/https://iasj.rdd.edu.iq/journals/uploads/2025/02/07/658d2cf630f0fb6b1716680eece09c3f.pdf |archive-date=8 September 2025 |access-date=7 September 2025 |via=Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals}}</ref>
* ''Ḥāshiya ʿalā Fatāwā Rashīdiyyah'' (marginal notes on ''[[Fatawa-e-Rashidiya|Fatāwā Rashīdiyyah]]'' of [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]])<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Kandhlavi|editor-first=Noorul Hasan Rashid |last=Gangohi|first=Rashid Ahmad|author-link=Rashid Ahmad Gangohi|title=Baqiyāt-e-Fatāwā Rashīdiyyah |trans-title=Remaining Fatwas of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi|url=https://archive.org/details/baqiyat-fatawa-rashidiyyah/page/n149/mode/1up |language=ur|location=[[Kandhla]]|publisher=Mufti Elahi Bakhsh Academy |date=March 2012 |edition=1st |page=149}}</ref>

In addition, he produced works such as ''Ighnāʾ al-Ḥizb ʿan Masʾalat Imkān al-Kidhb'', ''al-Kalām al-Munazzam fī Tawḍīḥ mā fī al-Sullam'', ''Dars al-Sirājī'', ''Dars [[Al-Aqida al-Tahawiyya|ʿAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī]]'', ''Dars-e-Ḥusāmī'', and partial commentaries on ''[[Tafsir al-Jalalayn]]'', ''[[Muwatta’ Imam Malik]]'' and ''[[Sunan al-Nasa'i]]''. He also wrote treatises such as ''Tanqīḥ al-Afkār fī Taḥqīq Isbāl al-Izār'', ''Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah'' (on [[Mahmood Hasan Gangohi]]’s ''Guldasta-yi Salām''), ''Uṣūl al-Taʿbīr'' (principles of [[dream interpretation]]), and annotations on [[Al-Sharif al-Jurjani|al-Jurjānī]]'s ''[[Jurjani Definitions|al-Taʿrīfāt]]'' and al-Ḥamawī's ''Ghamz ʿUyūn al-Baṣāʾir''.{{Sfn|Rampuri|2022|pp=276–279}}{{Sfn|Mubarakpuri|2021|p=440}}{{Sfn|Subḥānī Muẓāhirī|2021|p=548}}

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taulawi, Muhammad Yusuf}}
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Muzaffarnagar district]]
[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]
[[Category:Deobandis]]
[[Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Darul Uloom Deoband]]
[[Category:Indian Islamic religious leaders]]
[[Category:Urdu-language Indian poets]]
[[Category:Urdu-language Indian writers]]
[[Category:Hanafi fiqh scholars]]

Muhammad Yusuf Taulawi - Revision history

Vivek.Dantkale: creating new pg