Wasiullah Abbas

Early life Wasiullah Abbas is an Indian Islamic scholar and teacher born on 11 March 1948. He began his Islamic education in a Madrasa in his local village. Later, he transferred to Darul Huda School in Yusufpur which was run by students of the Ahl-i Hadith scholar Syed Nazeer Husain Dehlawi. This led to Abbas going to Saudi Arabia in 1967 with him getting a high school degree in 2 years from the Islamic university and a bachelor's degree in the Dawah/Usool ad-Deen and Tafseer/Hadith Departments four years later. He has also taught classes and given lectures internationally, with Dawah trips in Egypt, Yemen, India, the United Kingdom, France, and Bahrain. Additionally, he teaches and publishes lessons and lectures in Arabic, Urdu, and English.

Selection of major works

Following and the Principles of Jurisprudence of the Salaf An Investigation into the Obligation of Reciting Behind the Imam Investigating Part of the Book “Lisan al-Mizan” Imitation and Its Ruling in Light of the Quran and Sunnah The Defects and Knowledge of Men The Science of Hadith Defects and Its Role in Preserving the Sunnah Redemption in Khula’ The Virtues of the Companions Following and the Principles of the Jurisprudence of the Salaf (Urdu edition) Islam is the Solution for Humanity (Urdu edition) The Weak, the Unknown and the Abandoned in Sunan Al-Nasa’i (Master's Thesis) The Virtues of the Companions of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (Doctoral Thesis)