HADHRAT MAULANA SYED FAKHRUL HASAN MORADABADI

   He was born on 10^th Rajab, A. H. 1323, at village Umri, and his ancestral native place in Moradabad district. His chronogrammatic name is Mazhar Hussain. He received the education of the Holy Quran, Theology, Urdu and primary Persian from Hafiz Nasimuddin and Hafiz Abdul Qadir Amrohi. His august father was a librarian in the Madrasa Shahi, Moradabad. So, around A. H. 1335, he took admission in the said Madrasah. There he completed he course of Persian and studied the elementary books of the Nizami Syllabus under his own father. Then he went to Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur, and completed the intermediate courses. In A. H. 1343 he came to Darul Uloom, completed the course of Hadith in A H.1347 and be came a graduate.

   After graduation he was appointed as a teacher in Madrasa Aliya, Fatehpuri (Delhi). From there he went to Bihar and was appointed in Madrasa Shamsul Huda, Patna, for teaching certain books of the Sahih. But after one and a half years he returned to Madrasa Aliya Fatehpuri, where later on he was made its head teacher. In A. H. 1362 he was called to Darul Uloom and was appointed a teacher of the higher classes and was given books like Sahih Muslim, Umoor-e Aammah, etc. (for teaching). His teaching of the Sahih Muslim and Tatsir-e Baizavi has attained special fame in Darul Uloom. Accordingly, the first volume of his lecture on Baizawi entitled AI-Tatsirul Hawi has been published and has met with general approbation. He is also very proficient in giving sermons and speeches.

    In A. H. 1387, after Maulana Muhammad Ibrahim Baliyawi's death, he was appointed as principal in Darul Uloom on which post he was working. He has got permission and Khilafat from Hadhrat Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri.