Muhaddith Yusuf Binnouri (rahmatullahi alaih)
Muhaddith Yusuf Binnouri (rahmatullahi alaih) (1326-1397 AH / 1908-1978)
Abu al Mahasin Muhammad Yusuf bin Sayyid Muhammad Zakariyya Binnouri Husaini. He was born in 1326 AH close to Peshawar. He learnt the Qur’ân from his father and uncle and studied the basics of a few subjects with a number of ‘ulamâ in Kabul. He then spent a few years in Darul Uloom Deoband before traveling to Jamia Islamia in Dhabel, India where he completed
his studies in hadeeth under a number of prominent ‘ulamâ including Allamah AnwarShah Kashmiri and Moulana Shabbir Ahmad Uthmani. He also taught here for some time whilst assuming other scholarly and literary responsibilities.
In 1951 he migrated to Pakistan where he established an institute for higher learningin Arabic and Islamic sciences. Apart from the students he taught in these establishments,many prominent ‘ulamâ heard hadeeth and obtained ijazah from him. They include Shaikh Sulaiman bin Abdur
Rahman al Sanee of Makkah, Shaikh Ibrahim Khatani of Madînah, Shaikh Abdul
Aziz Uyun al Sud of Hims, Syria, and Shaikh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghuddah.
Muhaddith Yusuf Binnouri was a man of letters and authored a number of works including a partly completed commentary of Tirmidhi titled Ma’arif al Sunan, Bughyahal Areeb fi Masaail al Qiblah wa al Mahaarieeb, and Nafhat al Anbar fi Hayat Imam al Asr al Shaikh Muhammad Anwar. He died in 1397 AH. May Allâh have mercy on him