Usmani continued his education at the University of Karachi, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in economics and politics in 1964, then a Bachelor of Laws with second-class honours in 1967.
He then obtained his Takhassus (specialization) degree in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and ifta ( fatwa issuance) from Darul Uloom Karachi in 1961, earning the title of " Mufti". He passed the Fazil-i Arabi (Punjab Board) with distinction in 1958, and received his Alimiyyah degree with distinction from Darul Uloom Karachi in 1959. After completing his primary education, he began his formal religious training in the Dars-i Nizami curriculum in 1953. He was later enrolled in Darul Uloom Karachi after Mufti Shafi founded the school in 1950. Since there was not a madrasah nearby, Usmani's primary education began at home under his parents. In 1948, when Usmani was four years old, his father immigrated the family from Deoband to Karachi, Pakistan. He taught there for several decades and held the post of chief mufti. Usmani's father Muhammad Shafi was also a product of the Deoband seminary. Born the year before the madrasah's founding, he had been one of its first students and studied with some of its early teachers including Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Sayyid Ahmad Dihlawi, Mulla Mahmud Deobandi, and Mahmud al-Hasan Deobandi. His grandfather Muhammad Yasin (1865/66 – 1936) taught Persian at Darul Uloom Deoband. The title "Miyanji" applied to several of his ancestors indicates that they were teachers. Usmani was born to several generations of educators. The forefathers of Miyanji Shukr Allah are unknown, but the family claims descent from Uthman, the third caliph and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, hence the nisbat " Usmani".
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With his full nasab (patronymic), he is Muhammad Taqi ibn Muhammad Shafi ibn Muhammad Yasin ibn Khalifah Tahsin Ali ibn Imam Ali ibn Karim Allah ibn Khair Allah ibn Shukr Allah. He was the fifth and youngest son of Mufti Muhammad Shafi (1897–1976). Muhammad Taqi Usmani was born on 5 Shawwal 1362 AH (3 October 1943) in the city of Deoband in Saharanpur district, United Provinces, British India. įurther information: Usmani family of Deoband § Miyānji Shukrullah From 1977 to 1981 he was a member of Zia's Council of Islamic Ideology and was involved in drafting the Hudood Ordinances. In Pakistan, Usmani served as a scholar judge on the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court from 1982 to 2002, and on the Federal Shariat Court from 1981 to 1982.
He is also a permanent member of the Jeddah-based International Islamic Fiqh Academy, an organ of the OIC. He chairs the Shariah Board of the Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). He has written and lectured extensively on hadith, and Islamic finance. An intellectual leader of the Deobandi movement, he has authored 143 books in Urdu, Arabic and English, including a translation of the Qur'an in both English and Urdu as well a 6-volume commentary on the Sahih Muslim in Arabic, Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim and Uloomu-l-Qur'an. Muhammad Taqi Usmani (born 5 October 1943), is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and former judge who is the president of the Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia and the vice president and Hadith professor of the Darul Uloom Karachi. Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan in 2019 Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari, Muhammad Abdul Malek.