Zubayr Ali Za'i

Zubayr Ali Za'i (25 June 195710 November 2013) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and was considered a leading Ahl-i Hadith Salafi scholar of Pakistan.

He was born in 1957 in the village of Pirdad, near Hazro in the Attock District of Punjab.

He married in 1982 and had three sons (Tahir, Abdullah and Muaz) and four daughters. In addition to his native language of Pashto and Arabic, he was also fluent in English, Urdu, Hindko and Greek, and could read and understand Persian.

Career

Education Ali Za'i completed a bachelor's degree and later on two master's degrees, one in Islamic studies in 1983 and another in the Arabic language in 1994 from the University of the Punjab in Lahore. Additionally, he graduated for a fourth time from the Salafi University in Faisalabad.

Editing and publishing Ali Za'i was, like his former teacher Rashidi, a bibliophile, having amassed a private library of some renown in Hazro, where he spent most of his time.

Works Much of Ali Za'i work consists of editing and referencing ancient texts of prophetic tradition and evaluating them according to the Categories of Hadith. Working with Dar us Salam, he has reviewed the Al-Kutub al-Sittah, considered canonical in Sunni Islam. He also authored many books written in Urdu and Arabic. A book named "Noor ul Enain fi Masalate Rafa-ul-Yadain" has a list of all his works.

List of his books (published): Anwar al Sunan Fi Tahqiq Aasar il Sunan Anwaar ul Saheefah Fi Ahadees Zaheefa Min Sunnan e Arba'a Tohfatul Aqwiya Fi Tahqeeq Kitabul Zuhafa Tahqeeq Tafseer Ibn Kathir Tahqeeq Masael Muhammad Ibn Usman Ibn Abi Shaybah Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Juzz Ali Bin Muhammad Al-Himyari Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Kitabul Arbaʿīn Le Ibn Taymiyyah Al-Etihaaf Al-Basim Fi Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Muwatta Imam Malik Riwayatu Ibn ul-Qasim Tahqeeq wa Takhreej Hisnul Muslim Alfathul Mubeen Fi Tahqeeq Tabqaat Al-Mudaliseen Musafaha wa Mohaniqa Ke Ahkaam wa Masael Nabi Kareem ﷺ kay Lail wa Nahaar Taufeeq Al-Bari Fi Tatbeeq Al-Quran wa Saheeh Al-Bukhari Masla Fatiha Khalful Imam Juzz Rafahul Yadain Fazael Sahaba Noorul Enain Fi Masalate Asbaate Rafa-ul-Yadain Hadith referencing Sahih Muslim of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2007. 1st Ed. 7 volumes. Jami' at-Tirmidhi of Muhammad ibn 'Isa at-Tirmidhi. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2007. 6 volumes. Al-Sunan al-Sughra of Al-Nasa'i. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2008. 6 volumes. Sunan Abu Dawood of Abu Dawood. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2008. 1st Ed. 5 volumes. Translated by Yasir Qadhi. Sunan ibn Majah of Ibn Majah. Riyadh: Dar us Salam Publications, 2007. 1st Ed. 5 volumes.

Death Ali Za'i died on 10 November 2013, at Benazir Bhutto Hospital in Rawalpindi, of lung failure.