Abdul Khaliq Sambhali

Abdul Khaliq Sambhali (4 January 1950 – 30 July 2021) was an Indian Muslim scholar and writer who served as the vice-rector of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was an alumnus of the Deoband seminary and had studied with scholars including Mahmood Hasan Gangohi, Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi and Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad. He translated Abdul Majeed al-Zindani's Al-Tawḥīd into Urdu and gave religious discourses criticizing the Maududism.

Biography Abdul Khaliq Sambhali was born on 4 January 1950 in Sambhal. He was schooled at the Madrasa Khair al-Madaris and Madrasa Shamsul Uloom in Sambhal. He memorized the Quran under the tutelage of Hafiz Farīduddīn. He went to Darul Uloom Deoband in 1968, He also gave discourses on the Poems of Al-Mutanabbi, the Dīwan-e-Mutanabbi, which was considered famous in the seminary. In 2017, he said about the Indian government's ban on Triple Talaq that, "no one had a right to change the commandments of Shariah." He translated Abdul Majeed al-Zindani's book Al-Tawḥīd into Urdu. His discourses on the criticism of Maududism have been published from the Deoband seminary in several volumes.

Sambhali died on 30 July 2021 in Muzaffarnagar. He was buried in the Qasmi cemetery in Deoband. Abul Qasim Nomani, Arshad Madani, Mahmood Madani and Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi expressed grief over his death.

See more List of Deobandis