Mufti Muhammad Hassan

Mufti Muhammad Hassan (1880 - 1 June 1961) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and founder of Jamia Ashrafia. He was educated at Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a student of Ashraf Ali Thanwi and Anwar Shah Kashmiri. He is the father of Maulana Fazl Rahim Ashrafi.[1][2][3]

Hassan was born in 1880 in the town of Milpur on the outskirts of Hassan Abdal, to Maulana Allah Dad, a pious family of the Utmanzai tribe of Pathans. His father was a famous religious scholar, muhaddith of his time. He received his early education in his hometown. After receiving further religious education from Maulana Muhammad Masoom, Maulana Abdul Jabbar Ghaznavi, Maulana Noor Muhammad and Maulana Ghulam Mustafa Qasmi and other scholars, he went to Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi for self-purification and training. Hassan received his certificate of Tajwid and Art of Recitation from Qari Karim Bakhsh and graduated from Darul Uloom Deoband by renewing the Hadith study from Anwar Shah Kashmiri.[4]

Hassan was a strong supporter of the establishment of Pakistan. He had a corrective relationship with Ashraf Ali Thanwi, a well-known scholar and spiritual figure of the subcontinent and he was also his authorized caliph. In 1947, he established a religious institution in Lahore called Jamia Ashrafia under the name of Hazrat Thanwi.[4]