Dr Allama Khalid Maḥmūd (17 October 1925 – 14 May 2020) was a Pakistani Sunni
Islamic
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scholar who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He established the Islamic Academy and City Jamia Masjid in Manchester, England, and was best known for his works related to the Finality of the Prophethood.
Education
Maḥmūd studied Islamic Sciences from
Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi
Muḥammad Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Yaḥyá Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī Sahāranpūrī Muhājir Madanī (''Muḥammad Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Yaḥyá aṣ-Ṣiddīqī al-Kāndahlawī as-Sahāranfūrī al-Madanī''; 2 February 189824 May 1982) ...
,
Shamsul Haq Afghani
Allama Syed Shamsul Haq Afghani (born; 8 January 1901 – 16 August 1983) ( Urdu: علامہ سیّد شمس الحق افغانی;( SI)) was an afghani Islamic scholar and former President of Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan from 19 October ...
,
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (11 October 188713 December 1949) was an Islamic scholar who supported the Pakistan Movement in the 1940s. He was a religious scholar, writer, orator, politician, and expert in Tafsir and Hadith.
Born in 1887 in Bijnor, Us ...
, and Badre Alam Meerthi. He received his PhD degree in 1970 from the
University of Birmingham
, mottoeng = Through efforts to heights
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. He also completed his master's degrees in Arabic, Persian, Philosophy & Theology, also achieving an LLB in Law.
Career
He served as a senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (Shariat Appellate Bench). He was also director of the Islamic Academy of Manchester UK. He founded a purpose-built mosque, Gity Jamia Masjid, in Manchester.
Mahmood was the Shaykh-ul-Hadith of
Jamia Ashrafia
Jamia Ashrafia (جامعہ اشرفیہ, Ashrafia Islamic University), Lahore, Pakistan, is a religious educational institution founded by Mufti Muhammad Hassan in 1947. The university has produced scholars of the Deobandi school and Deobandi ...
, Lahore, and the head of the Islamic Center Manchester.
In the UK during the 1960s, he worked with Asif Husain Farooqi and
Yusuf Motala
Muhammad Yusuf ibn Suleman ibn Qasim Motala (25 November 1946 – 8 September 2019) was a British Indians, British Indian Sunni Muslim scholar, founder of Darul Uloom Bury and one of the disciples of Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi.Finality of the Prophethood. Manzoor Ahmad Chinioti accompanied Mahmood on many of the travels relating to these works; most notably spending a 6-month period in South Africa in the 1970s whilst contention relating to Khatm-e-Nabuwwat was rife - soon after the opposing view began to be spread in these areas.
Throughout his lifetime, Mahmood established many Masājid and Islamic centres across the world, especially in poverty-stricken areas - for example within
Ghana
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,
Gambia
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, and many throughout
South-East Asia
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, whilst also setting-up many other charities in these areas to provide aid in the form of orphanages, health centres, and food banks.
Literary works
Mahmud wrote a detailed study on the Barelvi school of thought entitled, ''Mut̤ālaʻah-yi Brelvīyat : ek tārīk̲h̲ī, fikrī, aur taḥqīqī jāʼizah''. He wrote his doctoral thesis comparing the attitudes of
Muhammad al-Bukhari
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,
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Iṣḥāq al Kulaynī ar Rāzī (Persian: ar, أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن يَعْقُوب إِسْحَاق ٱلْكُلَيْنِيّ ٱلرَّازِيّ; c. 250 AH/864 CE ...
, and their co-religionists on the basic doctrines of Islam. His other books include:
* ''Ās̲ārulḥadīs̲''
* ''Ās̲āruliḥsān fī sairissulūk val ʻirfān''
* ''Ās̲āruttanzīl''
* ''Dātā Ganj Bak̲h̲sh aur un kā ʻahd''
* ''Faz̤āʼil-i ahl-i Bait Ṣaḥābah-i Kirām va tābiʻīn : Ṣaḥābah-i Karām, Ahl-i Bait''
* ''Ḥaz̤rat Abū Bakr kā daur-i k̲h̲ilāfat''
* ''The authenticity of Hadith''
Death
Khalid Maḥmūd died on 14 May 2020 in
Manchester
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