❖ Excerpt from the book: Nūr al-ʿAynayn fī Ithbāt Rafʿ al-Yadayn ʿinda al-Rukūʿ wa Baʿdahu fī al-Ṣalāh
Ḥāfiẓ Zubair ʿAlī Zai
(son of Majd Dukhān, son of Dōst Muḥammad Khān, son of Jahāngīr Khān ʿAlī Zai)
25th June 1957, Hazro, District Attock (Pakistan)
① Graduate of Jāmiʿah Muḥammadiyyah, Gujranwala
② Graduate of Wifāq al-Madāris al-Salafiyyah, Faisalabad
③ M.A. in Arabic, Punjab University
④ M.A. in Islamic Studies, Punjab University
① Mawlānā ʿAtā’ullāh Ḥanīf Bhūjyānī رحمه الله (d. 1408 AH)
② Mawlānā Abū al-Qāsim Muḥibbullāh Shāh al-Rāshidī al-Sindhī رحمه الله (d. 1415 AH)
③ Mawlānā Abū Muḥammad Badīʿuddīn Shāh al-Rāshidī al-Sindhī رحمه الله (d. 1416 AH)
④ Mawlānā Abū al-Faḍl Fayḍur-Raḥmān al-Thawrī رحمه الله (d. 1417 AH)
⑤ Mawlānā Abū al-Rijāl Allāh Dittah al-Suhadrāwī رحمه الله (d. 1422 AH)
⑥ Mawlānā Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Azhar (ḥafiẓahullāh) and others
① Ṭāhir
② ʿAbdullāh
③ Muʿādh
A selection from his prolific works in Urdu:
① Ikhtiṣār ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth by Ibn Kathīr – Translation & Research
② Akādhīb Āl-e-Deoband
③ al-Ta’sīs fī Mas’alat al-Tadlīs (Vol. 1)
④ al-Qawl al-Ṣaḥīḥ fīmā Tawātara fī Nuzūl ʿĪsā عليه السلام
⑤ al-Qawl al-Matīn fī al-Jahr bi’l-Tāmīn
⑥ al-Kawākib al-Durriyyah (on Fātiḥah behind Imām)
⑦ Anwār al-Ṭarīq fī Radd Ẓulumāt Fayṣal al-Ḥalīq
⑧ Bidʿatī ke Pīchhe Namāz kā Ḥukm
⑨ Ithbāt ʿAdhāb al-Qabr by al-Bayhaqī – Translation & Research
⑩ Multi-volume collections of taḥqīqī, iṣlāḥī, and ʿilmī maqālāt
⑪ Takhreej Aḥādīth al-Rasūl kā Nik Tarāh
⑫ Takhreej wa Taḥqīq Juzʾ Rafʿ al-Yadayn
⑬ Takhreej Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn
⑭ Takhreej Fatāwā Islāmiyyah
⑮ Takhreej Namāz Nabawī
⑯ Translation & commentary on Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ – Kitāb al-Īmān
⑰ Shʿār Aṣḥāb al-Ḥadīth – Translation of al-Ḥākim's work
⑱ Translation & Research: Āthār al-Sunan
⑲ Tashīl al-Wuṣūl
⑳ Tʿadād Rakaʿāt Qiyām al-Ramaḍān kā Taḥqīqī Jāʾizah
㉑ Takhreej wa Taḥqīq: al-Aḥādīth al-Mutawātirah (manuscript)
㉒ Tawḍīḥ al-Aḥkām / Fatāwā ʿIlmiyyah (Vol. 1 & 2)
㉓ Tawfīq al-Bārī fī Taṭbīq al-Qurʾān wa Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī – Refutation of Aḥmad Saʿīd Multānī
㉔ Jannat kā Rāstah
㉕ Ḥājjī ke Shab-o-Roz – Translation, Research & Commentary
㉖ Masʾalah Taqlīd fī Dīn
㉗ Sayf al-Jabbār
㉘ Sharḥ Ḥadīth Jibrīl – Translation & Commentary
㉙ Defence of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī against Criticisms
㉚ ʿIbādāt mein Bidʿāt awr Sunnat se Unkā Radd
㉛ ʿAṣr-e-Ḥāzir ke Chand Kaẓẓābīn kā Tadhkirah
㉜ Faḍāʾil Durūd wa Salām – Translation & Commentary
㉝ Masṭar Amīn Okāṛwī kā Taʿāqub
㉞ Monthly Magazine al-Ḥadīth Hazro – Since June 2004 (7 volumes published)
㉟ Mukhtaṣar Ṣaḥīḥ Namāz-e-Nabawī
㊱ Muwaṭṭa Imām Mālik – Riwayah of Ibn al-Qāsim (translated, verified, with commentary)
㊲ Day & Night of the Prophet ﷺ – Translation of Kitāb al-Anwār by al-Baghawī
㊳ Naṣr al-Bārī – Translation & Research of Juzʾ al-Qirāʾah by al-Bukhārī
㊴ Naṣr al-Maʿbūd fī al-Radd ʿalā Sulṭān Maḥmūd
㊵ Namāz mein Hāth Bāndhnay kā Ḥukm
㊶ Nūr al-ʿAynayn fī Ithbāt Rafʿ al-Yadayn (This latest edition is the authoritative one)
㊷ Nūr al-Qamarayn (E-book, printed at end of Nūr al-ʿAynayn)
㊸ Nūr al-Maṣābīḥ
㊹ Hadiyyat al-Muslimīn (Published by Maktabah Islāmiyyah Lahore/Faisalabad)
㊺ Safar-e-Yaman (Published in Maqālāt Vol. 2)
He authored or edited over 80 Arabic works (many are manuscripts), including:
㊻ Aḍwāʾ al-Maṣābīḥ – Research on Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ
㊼ al-Asānīd al-Ṣaḥīḥah fī Akhbār Imām Abī Ḥanīfah
㊽ Anwār al-Sabīl fī Mīzān al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl
㊾ Anwār al-Sunan – Research on Āthār al-Sunan
㊿ Anwār al-Ṣaḥīfah fī al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah (Published)
51. Tuḥfat al-Aqwiyāʾ fī Taḥqīq Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
52. Taḥqīq wa Takhreej Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr (Published)
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[Works continued up to number 82, including]
“And my success is only with Allah. Upon Him I rely, and to Him I return.”
(10 March 2011)
✦ Author's Self-Written Introduction
◈ Name:
Ḥāfiẓ Zubair ʿAlī Zai
(son of Majd Dukhān, son of Dōst Muḥammad Khān, son of Jahāngīr Khān ʿAlī Zai)
◈ Date of Birth:
25th June 1957, Hazro, District Attock (Pakistan)
✦ Educational Background
① Graduate of Jāmiʿah Muḥammadiyyah, Gujranwala
② Graduate of Wifāq al-Madāris al-Salafiyyah, Faisalabad
③ M.A. in Arabic, Punjab University
④ M.A. in Islamic Studies, Punjab University
✦ Prominent Teachers
① Mawlānā ʿAtā’ullāh Ḥanīf Bhūjyānī رحمه الله (d. 1408 AH)
② Mawlānā Abū al-Qāsim Muḥibbullāh Shāh al-Rāshidī al-Sindhī رحمه الله (d. 1415 AH)
③ Mawlānā Abū Muḥammad Badīʿuddīn Shāh al-Rāshidī al-Sindhī رحمه الله (d. 1416 AH)
④ Mawlānā Abū al-Faḍl Fayḍur-Raḥmān al-Thawrī رحمه الله (d. 1417 AH)
⑤ Mawlānā Abū al-Rijāl Allāh Dittah al-Suhadrāwī رحمه الله (d. 1422 AH)
⑥ Mawlānā Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Azhar (ḥafiẓahullāh) and others
✦ Sons
① Ṭāhir
② ʿAbdullāh
③ Muʿādh
✦ Notable Urdu Publications
A selection from his prolific works in Urdu:
① Ikhtiṣār ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth by Ibn Kathīr – Translation & Research
② Akādhīb Āl-e-Deoband
③ al-Ta’sīs fī Mas’alat al-Tadlīs (Vol. 1)
④ al-Qawl al-Ṣaḥīḥ fīmā Tawātara fī Nuzūl ʿĪsā عليه السلام
⑤ al-Qawl al-Matīn fī al-Jahr bi’l-Tāmīn
⑥ al-Kawākib al-Durriyyah (on Fātiḥah behind Imām)
⑦ Anwār al-Ṭarīq fī Radd Ẓulumāt Fayṣal al-Ḥalīq
⑧ Bidʿatī ke Pīchhe Namāz kā Ḥukm
⑨ Ithbāt ʿAdhāb al-Qabr by al-Bayhaqī – Translation & Research
⑩ Multi-volume collections of taḥqīqī, iṣlāḥī, and ʿilmī maqālāt
⑪ Takhreej Aḥādīth al-Rasūl kā Nik Tarāh
⑫ Takhreej wa Taḥqīq Juzʾ Rafʿ al-Yadayn
⑬ Takhreej Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn
⑭ Takhreej Fatāwā Islāmiyyah
⑮ Takhreej Namāz Nabawī
⑯ Translation & commentary on Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ – Kitāb al-Īmān
⑰ Shʿār Aṣḥāb al-Ḥadīth – Translation of al-Ḥākim's work
⑱ Translation & Research: Āthār al-Sunan
⑲ Tashīl al-Wuṣūl
⑳ Tʿadād Rakaʿāt Qiyām al-Ramaḍān kā Taḥqīqī Jāʾizah
㉑ Takhreej wa Taḥqīq: al-Aḥādīth al-Mutawātirah (manuscript)
㉒ Tawḍīḥ al-Aḥkām / Fatāwā ʿIlmiyyah (Vol. 1 & 2)
㉓ Tawfīq al-Bārī fī Taṭbīq al-Qurʾān wa Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī – Refutation of Aḥmad Saʿīd Multānī
㉔ Jannat kā Rāstah
㉕ Ḥājjī ke Shab-o-Roz – Translation, Research & Commentary
㉖ Masʾalah Taqlīd fī Dīn
㉗ Sayf al-Jabbār
㉘ Sharḥ Ḥadīth Jibrīl – Translation & Commentary
㉙ Defence of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī against Criticisms
㉚ ʿIbādāt mein Bidʿāt awr Sunnat se Unkā Radd
㉛ ʿAṣr-e-Ḥāzir ke Chand Kaẓẓābīn kā Tadhkirah
㉜ Faḍāʾil Durūd wa Salām – Translation & Commentary
㉝ Masṭar Amīn Okāṛwī kā Taʿāqub
㉞ Monthly Magazine al-Ḥadīth Hazro – Since June 2004 (7 volumes published)
㉟ Mukhtaṣar Ṣaḥīḥ Namāz-e-Nabawī
㊱ Muwaṭṭa Imām Mālik – Riwayah of Ibn al-Qāsim (translated, verified, with commentary)
㊲ Day & Night of the Prophet ﷺ – Translation of Kitāb al-Anwār by al-Baghawī
㊳ Naṣr al-Bārī – Translation & Research of Juzʾ al-Qirāʾah by al-Bukhārī
㊴ Naṣr al-Maʿbūd fī al-Radd ʿalā Sulṭān Maḥmūd
㊵ Namāz mein Hāth Bāndhnay kā Ḥukm
㊶ Nūr al-ʿAynayn fī Ithbāt Rafʿ al-Yadayn (This latest edition is the authoritative one)
㊷ Nūr al-Qamarayn (E-book, printed at end of Nūr al-ʿAynayn)
㊸ Nūr al-Maṣābīḥ
㊹ Hadiyyat al-Muslimīn (Published by Maktabah Islāmiyyah Lahore/Faisalabad)
㊺ Safar-e-Yaman (Published in Maqālāt Vol. 2)
✦ Arabic Works
He authored or edited over 80 Arabic works (many are manuscripts), including:
㊻ Aḍwāʾ al-Maṣābīḥ – Research on Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ
㊼ al-Asānīd al-Ṣaḥīḥah fī Akhbār Imām Abī Ḥanīfah
㊽ Anwār al-Sabīl fī Mīzān al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl
㊾ Anwār al-Sunan – Research on Āthār al-Sunan
㊿ Anwār al-Ṣaḥīfah fī al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah (Published)
51. Tuḥfat al-Aqwiyāʾ fī Taḥqīq Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
52. Taḥqīq wa Takhreej Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr (Published)
...
[Works continued up to number 82, including]
- Takhreej & Research: Sunan Ibn Mājah, Sunan al-Tirmidhī, Sunan Abī Dāwūd, Manāqib ʿAlī & al-Ḥusayn, etc.
- Research on books like al-Fitan wa al-Malāḥim, Musnad al-Ḥumaydī, Muwaṭṭa Imām Mālik
- Commentary on Ḥiṣn al-Muslim
- Research on books by Ibn Taymiyyah, al-Ṭabarānī, and others
Final Statement:
“And my success is only with Allah. Upon Him I rely, and to Him I return.”
(10 March 2011)
