Khawaja Khan Muhammad

Maulana Khawaja Khan Muhammad ( born; 1916 - 5 May 2010) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Ameer of the Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat.

Khawaja Khan Muhammad was born in 1920 in Mianwali District to Khawaja Umar Sahib. He attended school to the sixth grade, then he studied Quran and early religious books at Khanqah Sirajia Kundian. He went to Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin Dabhel for further education. Then he went to Darul Uloom Deoband to complete his studies. Apart from Izaz Ali Amrohi and other eminent teachers, he also got the honor of being a special student of Shaykh-ul-Islam Hazrat Maulana Syed Husain Ahmed Madani.

Career
After graduating from Darul Uloom Deoband in 1941, he returned to the Khanqah Sirajia Kundian and began teaching there. He served Khanqah Sirajia as principal for about sixty years till his death. He also served as Emir of the Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat after the death of Muhammad Yousuf Banuri in 1977. He used to perform Hajj almost every year, so far he has performed about 65 Hajj.

in Multan due to severe Jaundice and died on Wednesday 5 May 2010 after Maghrib prayers. His funeral prayers were offered by his son and successor Hazret Khawja Abu Saad Khalil Ahmed, which was attended by millions of people from across the country, and was buried next to his mentor Hazret Maulana Abdullah Ludhianvi r.a in the Khanqah Sarajia cemetery. The funeral was attended by many scholars like Maulana Fazlur Rehman, then Federal Minister Atta-ur-Rehman, Ubaidur Rahman Zia, Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Saleemullah Khan, Abdur Razzaq Iskander, Abdul Ghafoor Haideri and Muhammad Rafi Usmani, Syed Muhammad Kafeel Bukhari, Maulana Amjad Khan, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema, Muhammad Hanif Jalandhari, Gul Naseeb Khan and Qari Fayyaz-ur-Rehman Alvi. Punjab Assembly member Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi representing then Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif attended the funeral prayer and also laid a wreath on the grave.