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{{Short description|Indian Islamic scholar and Hadith professor (b. 1948)}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| honorific prefix = [[Sheikh]] Dr.
| name = Wasiullah Abbas
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| birth_name = Wasiullah ibn Muhammad Abbas ibn Ahmad Abbas
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|3|11}}
| birth_place = Bibra, [[Basti District]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Biography of Allamah Dr Wasiullah Abbas {{!}} Umm-Ul-Qura Publications |url=https://umm-ul-qura.org/2015/08/17/biography-of-allamah-dr-wasiullah-abbas-2/ |access-date=2025-12-31 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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| occupation = [[Cleric]], [[Professor]]
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| religion = [[Islam]]
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| children = 10 (5 Sons, 5 Daughters)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2021-03-31 |title=Shaikh Dr Wasiullah Abbas |url=https://barakahinsider.com/shaikh-dr-wasiullah-abbas/|access-date=2025-12-31 |website=Barakah Insider |language=en}}</ref>
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| alma_mater = [[Islamic University of Madinah]], [[Umm al-Qura University]]
| website = {{URL|https://wasiullahabbas.wordpress.com/}}
| native_name =
| native_name_lang = ar
| influences = [[Ibn Baz]], [[Syed Nazeer Husain|Syed Nazeer Husain Dehlawi]], [[Ibn Taymiyyah]], [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]], [[al-Uthaymin]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| jurisprudence = [[Non-denominational_Muslim#Ghayr_Muqallid|Ghayr Muqallid]]
| creed = [[Athari]]
| movement = [[Salafi]], [[Ahl-i Hadith]]<ref name=":0" />
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'''Wasiullah Abbas''' is an Indian Islamic scholar and teacher born on 11 March 1948. He holds a PhD and master's degree in [[Hadith sciences]], and currently resides and has taught in [[Mecca]] at [[Umm al-Qura University]] as a professor.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Advisory Board - The Faculty of Hadith of Toronto |url=https://facultyofhadith.ca/en/advisory-board-en/ |access-date=2025-12-31 |language=en-CA}}</ref> He is regarded as one of the main [[Ahl-i Hadith]] scholars active in Mecca and [[Saudi Arabia]] as a whole.

== Early life ==
Wasiullah Abbas is an Indian Islamic scholar and teacher born on 11 March 1948. He began his Islamic education in a [[Madrasa]] in his local village. Later, he transferred to Darul Huda School in [[Yusufpur, Ghazipur|Yusufpur]] which was run by students of the [[Ahl-i Hadith]] scholar [[Syed Nazeer Husain|Syed Nazeer Husain Dehlawi]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> In these schools, he studied the Arabic language, [[fiqh]], and issues of [[Aqidah|Aqeedah]], including primary texts of the [[Maturidism|Māturīdī]] school, examined through a critical lens of their interpretation of the attributes of Allah. After completing his studies at Darul Huda, he was transferred to Jaamiah Rahmaniyyah in [[Varanasi|Banaras]] in 1963.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />

== Education and scholarship in Saudi Arabia ==
Later in his life, Abbas was selected by the administration of Jaamiah Rahmaniyyah to receive higher education in [[Saudi Arabia]] during the inauguration of a new school, Jaamiah Salafiyyah Banaras, where [[Ibn Baz]] directed his repersentative at the event, [[Abdul Qadir Shaibatul Hamd]], to request that some exemplery students travel to Saudi Arabia and study at the [[Islamic University of Madinah]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=وصى الله عباس - المكتبة الشاملة |url=https://shamela.ws/author/1574 |access-date=2025-12-31 |website=shamela.ws}}</ref> This led to Abbas going to Saudi Arabia in 1967 with him getting a high school degree in 2 years from the Islamic university and a bachelor's degree in the Dawah/Usool ad-Deen and Tafseer/Hadith Departments four years later.<ref name=":0" /> After this, he transferred to [[Umm al-Qura University]], where he completed a master's degree and PhD on topics of the [[Hadith]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />

While completing his PhD, the Grand Mosque Institute of [[Masjid al-Haram]] was in need of a lecturer for Hadith and Tafsir and so chose him to teach at the institute starting from 1979. In 1989, he left and became an assistant professor at Umm al-Qura<ref name=":2" /> where he became a professor in 2011. In 1999, he was appointed as a lecturer inside the Grand Mosque by then [[General Presidency of Haramain|President of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques]], Sheikh [[Mohammad Al Subail]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Wasiullah Abbas |url=https://makkahscholars.org/scholars/39 |access-date=31 December 2025 |website=Makkah Scholars}}</ref> He has also taught classes and given lectures internationally, with [[Dawah]] trips in [[Egypt]], [[Yemen]], [[India]], [[United Kingdom|the United Kingdom]], [[France]], and [[Bahrain]]. Additionally, he teaches and publishes lessons and lectures in Arabic, Urdu, and English.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Wasiullah Abbas |url=https://www.mimham.net/che-26 |access-date=31 December 2025 |website=Mimham}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=العلامة وصي الله عباس -المدرس بالمسجد الحرام- ضيفا على البحرين |url=https://www.alayam.com/alayam/multaqa/805265/News.html |access-date=2025-12-31 |website=Alayam.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Selection of major works==
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* ''Following and the Principles of Jurisprudence of the Salaf''
* ''An Investigation into the Obligation of Reciting Behind the Imam''
* ''Investigating Part of the Book “Lisan al-Mizan”''
* ''Imitation and Its Ruling in Light of the Quran and Sunnah''
* ''The Defects and Knowledge of Men''
* ''The Science of Hadith Defects and Its Role in Preserving the Sunnah''
* ''Redemption in Khula’''
* ''The Virtues of the Companions''
* ''Following and the Principles of the Jurisprudence of the Salaf'' (Urdu edition)
* ''Islam is the Solution for Humanity'' (Urdu edition)
* The Weak, the Unknown and the Abandoned in Sunan Al-Nasa’i (Master's Thesis)
* The Virtues of the Companions of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (Doctoral Thesis)

== References ==
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AhmedSturgis at 04:38, 16 April 2026