Obituary: Shaykh Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan Safdar

[Hamood]

On the 5th of May 2009, the great researcher (muhaqqiq) and hadith scholar of our age Shaykh Sarfaraz Khan Safdar (may Allah shower His infinite mercy upon him) passed away at the age of 98. Mawlana Sarfraz Khan ibn Nur Ahmad Khan ibn Gul Ahmad Khan was born in 1914 in the city of Mansehra, in the North West Frontier Province of what is now Pakistan. He was a renowned researcher and scholar, a prolific writer, a lecturer in hadith and tafsir, and a master of Tasawwuf.

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[Ahmad_shakeel]

JazakALLAH khair Bro

I liked the quote of Mufti Taqi Usmani about our late shaykh, mashAllah

[shatibi]

:salam:

:jazak: bro khanbaba and all those involved in providing the much needed bio.

:subh: his bio shows even more how great of a loss this was to the Ummah.

May Allah give him Jannatul Firdaus.