Abdur Rauf Sakharwi عبد الرؤوف سكَّهروي

Shaykh Mufti Abdur Rauf Sakharwi hafidhahullah was born in 1951 in Sukkur, a city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. He received his early Islamic education in his hometown before completing his final year of the alimiyyah course and his masters-level studies at the renowned Dar al-Ulum Karachi, where he studied under Shaykh Mufti Muhammad Shafi' and other senior scholars. He has since served as a senior Mufti at the Dar al-Ifta' of Dar al-Ulum Karachi, one of the most respected Islamic legal institutions in the subcontinent, and has taught portions of Sahih Muslim there for several years. He is the author of many Urdu-language works on Islamic practice and jurisprudence, a number of which have been rendered into English, including Virtuous Deeds and Consigning their Reward to Others, How Muslim Women Offer Prayers, and Customary Collective Recital of Qur'an from a Shari'ah Perspective.