List of Hanafis

The following is the list of notable religious personalities who followed the Hanafi Islamic maddhab followed by a subsection featuring contemporary Hanafi scholars, in chronological order.

List of Hanafis

 * Abu Hanifa (d. 767)
 * Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797)
 * Abu Yusuf (d. 798)
 * Muhammad al-Shaybani (d. 805)
 * Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani (d. 827)
 * Yahya ibn Ma'in (d. 847)
 * Al-Hassaf (d. 874)
 * Al-Tahawi (d. 933)
 * Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 944)
 * Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983)
 * Abul Ikhlas Hasan ibn `Ammar ibn `Ali al Shurunbulali al Wafa'i (d. 1069)
 * Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090)
 * Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 1100)
 * Yusuf Hamadani (d. 1141)
 * Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 1142)
 * Al-Kasani (d. 1191)
 * Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 1197)
 * Abu Tawwama (d. 1300)
 * Fakhr al-Din al-Zayla'i (d. 1300)
 * Uthman Siraj ad-Din (d. 1357)
 * Ala al-Haq (1301-1384)
 * Ibn Abi al-Izz (1331-1390)
 * Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
 * Badr al-Din al-Ayni (d. 1451)
 * Ibn Kemal (d. 1536)
 * Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549)
 * Ali al-Qari (d. 1605)
 * Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624)
 * 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (d. 1642)
 * Mir Zahid Harawi (d. 1689)
 * Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1671)
 * Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1731)
 * Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d. 1762)
 * Shah Nuri Bengali (d. 1785)
 * Syed Ahmad Barelvi (29 November 1786)
 * Majduddin (d. 1813)
 * Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi (d. 1824)
 * Ibn Abidin (d. 1836)
 * Haji Shariatullah (1781-1840)
 * Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (1789 — 7 October 1851)
 * Muhsinuddin Ahmad (1819–1862)
 * Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (1800-1873)
 * Najib Ali Choudhury (1870s)
 * Naqi Ali Khan (1830 — 1880)
 * Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (1832 — 15 April 1880)
 * Al-Maydani (d. 1881)
 * Yaqub Nanautawi (1833 — 1884)
 * Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (d. 1886)
 * Mahmud Deobandi (d. 1886)
 * Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (1834-1899)
 * Abdul Wahid Bengali (1850-1905)
 * Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (1826 — 1905)
 * Abdul Hamid Madarshahi (1869 - 31 March 1920)
 * Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851 — 30 November 1920)
 * Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1867 – 18 June 1921)
 * Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (14 June 1856 — 28 October 1921)
 * Sufi Azizur Rahman (1862-1922)
 * Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani (d. 1928)
 * Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad (1862 — 1930)
 * Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1872-1931)
 * Anwar Shah Kashmiri (16 November 1875 — 28 May 1933)
 * Majid Ali Jaunpuri (d. 1935)
 * Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (1875 – June 1935)
 * Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique Pir-e-Furfura (15 April 1865- 17 March 1943)
 * Shukrullah Mubarakpuri (1895/1896 — 23 March 1942)
 * Ibrahim Ujani (1863-1943)
 * Habibullah Qurayshi (1865-1943)
 * Ashraf Ali Thanwi (19 August 1863 — 4 July 1943)
 * Ubaidullah Sindhi (10 March 1872 — 21 August 1944)
 * Hamid Raza Khan (1875 — 1943)
 * Asghar Hussain Deobandi (16 October 1877 — 8 January 1945)
 * Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (1884 — 11 January 1946)
 * Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri (d. 1948)
 * Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (11 October 1887 — 13 December 1949)
 * Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri (1868 — 1951)
 * Nesaruddin Ahmad (1873 — 1952)
 * Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (1879 — 1952)
 * Kifayatullah Dehlawi (1875 — 31 December 1952)
 * Izaz Ali Amrohi (November 1882 — 1955)
 * Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1 October 1892 — 5 June 1956)
 * Hussain Ahmed Madani (6 October 1879 — 5 December 1957)
 * Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898-1959)
 * Azizul Haq (1903-1961)
 * Shah Ahmad Hasan (1882-1967)
 * Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889 — 1972)
 * Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892 — 1981)
 * Maqsudullah (1883-1961)
 * Ibrahim Raza Khan (1907 — 1965)
 * Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896-1969)
 * Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (1907-1971)
 * Abdur Rahman Kashgari (d. 1971)
 * Deen Muhammad Khan (1900-1974)
 * Amimul Ehsan Barkati (1911-1974)
 * Muhammad Miyan Deobandi (1903 — 1975)
 * Muhammad Faizullah (1890-1976)
 * Abdul Wahhab Pirji (1890 - 29 September 1976)
 * Athar Ali Bengali (1891- 6 October 1976)
 * Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (12 December 1880 - 17 November 1976)
 * Muhammad Shafi Deobandi (25 January 1897 — 6 October 1976)
 * Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915 — 1977)
 * Mufti Mahmud (1919 — 1980)
 * Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi (2 February 1898 — 24 May 1982)
 * Shah Abd al-Wahhab (1894 — 2 June 1982)
 * Ibrahim Chatuli (1894-1984)
 * Faiz-ul Hassan Shah (1911- 23 February 1984)
 * Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908 — 1985)
 * Harun Babunagari (1902-1986)
 * Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900-1986)
 * Abdur Rahim Firozpuri (1918-1987)
 * Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895-1987)
 * Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897-1988)
 * Uzair Gul Peshawari (d. 17 November 1989)
 * Abdul Jalil Choudhury (1925-1989)
 * Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh (1915-1990)
 * Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1915-1990)
 * Muhammad Taqi Amini (5 May 1926 — 21 January 1991)
 * Abul Hasan Jashori (1918 – 8 July 1993)
 * Muhammad Ayyub Ali (1919-1995)
 * Abdul Haque Faridi (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996)
 * Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (1907 — 2 September 1996)
 * Shamsuddin Qasemi (5 March 1935 — 19 October 1996)
 * ʿAbd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah (9 May 1917 – 16 February 1997)
 * Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (26 June 1914 – 16 August 1997)
 * Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (5 December 1913 — 31 December 1999)
 * Aashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri (1925 — 2002)
 * Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924-2005)
 * Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928-2005)
 * Abrarul Haq Haqqi (20 December 1920 — 17 May 2006)
 * Syed Fazlul Karim (1935 – 26 November 2006)
 * Ubaidul Haq (1928-2007)
 * Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri (1934-2008)
 * Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913-2008)
 * Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927 — 2008)
 * Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani (1949 — 2009)
 * Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1 October 1945 – 14 August 2010)
 * Zafeeruddin Miftahi (7 March 1926 — 31 March 2011)
 * Azizul Haque (1919 — 2012)
 * Abdus Sattar Akon (1929-2012)
 * Fazlul Haque Amini (1945 — 12 December 2012)
 * Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (15 June 1933 – 15 July 2013)
 * Nurul Islam Farooqi (1959-2014)
 * Abdur Rahman Chatgami (1920-2015)
 * Muhiuddin Khan (1935-2016)
 * Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937-2016)
 * Abdul Haq Azmi (1928 — 30 December 2016)
 * Yunus Jaunpuri (1937-2017)
 * Muhammad Salim Qasmi (8 January 1926 — 14 April 2018)
 * Akhtar Raza Khan (1943 — 2018)
 * Tafazzul Haque Habiganji (1938-2020)
 * Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (1940 — 19 May 2020)
 * Salman Mazahiri (10 October 1946 — 20 July 2020)
 * Muhammad Adil Khan (d. 10 October 2020)
 * Muhammad Abdus Sobhan (1936-2020)
 * Shah Ahmad Shafi (1945-2020)
 * Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945-2020)
 * Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (1926 — 2021)
 * Noor Alam Khalil Amini (18 December 1952 — 3 May 2021)
 * Muhammad Wakkas (1952-2021)
 * Junaid Babunagari (1953-2021)
 * Abdus Salam Chatgami (1943-2021)
 * Nurul Islam Jihadi (1916-2021)
 * Abdul Halim Bukhari (1945–2022)
 * Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf (15 April 1952 — 10 March 2015)

Contemporary Hanafi scholars

 * Muhibbullah Babunagari (born 1935)
 * Raza Saqib
 * Mahmudul Hasan (born: 5 July 1950)
 * Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1 February 1971)
 * Mufti Muhammad Rafi Usmani (born: 21 July 1936 )
 * Nematullah Azami (born: 1936)
 * Mushtaque Ahmad (born 1967)
 * Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani (born: 14 January 1947).
 * Salman Husaini Nadwi (born: 1954)
 * Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi (born: 26 September 1954).
 * Rawil Gaynetdin (born: 25 August 1959).
 * Husein Kavazović (born: 3 July 1964).
 * Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi (born: 10 May 1965).
 * Shefqet Krasniqi (born: 1966).
 * Mahfuzul Haque (born: 1969)
 * Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq (born: 1971).
 * Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera (born: 1974).
 * Mufti Ebrahim Desai
 * Mamunul Haque (born: 1973)
 * Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri (born: 13 May 1978)
 * Yusuf Ziya Kavakçı
 * Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
 * Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi (born 1 April 1953)
 * Maulana Ilyas Attar Qadri (born 1950)
 * Syed Amjad Hussein Shah Kazmi