Biography of Shaykh Muhammad Hussain Zahiri

Shaykh Abu Khuzaima Muhammad Hussain Zahiri is from the area of Okarah. He became Ahl e Hadith from a Deobandi background.

He did his FSC (faculty of science) in Pre-Medical

His religious studies:

Shaykh Muhammad Hussain Zahiri studied for 5 years from Imam Badiudin Shah Rashdi, and Shaykh Badiudin would call Shaykh Zahiri as his fifth son.

Among Shaykh Zahiri’s other teachers, we count:

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdillah Shuja’abadi, he studied Sahih Muslim from him

Shaykh AbdulAleem Chatvi from whom he studied Tafsir Baydhawi

Shaykh AbduKhaliq Quddusi from whom he studied Hujjatullah Al-Balighah, Irshadul Fuhul and other books.

Mufti Ubaydullah Khan Afeef

Shaykh Abdullah Amjad Chatvi

Shaykh Sa’eed Mujtaba Sa’eedi

Shaykh Abdullah Asghar

Shaykh AbdurRasheed Raashid Hazarwi

Shaykh Faydh Ar-Rahman Thawri

Shaykh Hayhat Lashari

Shaykh Muhibullah Shah Rashdi, from whom he studied Sunnan Tirmidhi

Among the scholars from whom he took Ijaza in Hadith, we count:

Shaykh Abul Ashbal Sagheer Ahmad Shaghif

Shaykh SafiuRahman Mubarakpuri

Allamah AbdulGhaffar Hasan Rehmani

Hafiz AbdulMannan Nurpuri

His teaching

Shaykh Muhammad Hussain Zahiri was Imam and Khateeb for a long time in Hyderabad in Pakke Qil’ah Wali Masjid. Afterwards he moved to Kuwait

Afterwards Shaykh Zahiri became Imam in Qasur, in Gujranwala and he was Shaykh Al-Hadith in Jamiyah Imam Bukhari in Sargodha and in Jamiyah Islamiyah Dallan Bangla in Burewala.

He is now permanently in Okarah and his personal library in Okarah is the biggest library in the division of Sahiwal

Many students around the world are learning online the traditional books of Hadith and Musannaf ibn Abi Shaybah from him, students from Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, and Lebanon.

His services

Shaykh Muhammad Hussain Zahiri conducted a 5 days program in Hyderabad in refutation of Master Ameen Okarwi and the tapes of this program were spread around the world and many people became Ahl e Hadith through them. Because of these tapes, Dar Al-Ulum Deoband India declared Shaykh Zahiri as Wajib Al-Qatl (deserving death penalty)

Shaykh Muhammad Hussain Zahiri refuted in particular Jamaat Al-Muslimeen (A Takfiri group), The Takfiris and the Parwezis (followers of Ghulam Ahmad Parwez, a famous Hadith rejecter)

Shaykh Muhammad Hussain Zahiri authored many books such as “Aqidah Ahlus Sunnah”, “Miftah Al-Jannah” and others.

His family:

Shaykh Muhammad Hussain Zahiri has three sons, who are all walking on his footsteps and serving the religion.

Khuzaima Xahiri, who studied at the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)

Jareer Hocane, who studied at Al-Huda Institute for men

Qutaiba Xahiri