Zubair Ali Zai


Zubair Ali Zai was a preacher, theologian, Islamic scholar, muhaddith and former merchant marine from Pakistan.

Life

Zubair Alizai was from the Pashtun tribe of Alizai, itself a branch of the larger Durrani confederation tracing their descent back to Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Durrani Empire.
He was born in 1957 in the village of Pirdad, near Hazro in the Attock District of Punjab.
He got married in 1982 and had three sons and four daughters. He was a Multilingual ; in addition to his native language of Hindko language and the Arabic language from his graduate study, He was also fluent in English, Urdu, Pashto and Greek, and could read and understand Persian.

Career

Education

Hafiz Zubair Alizai 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

Hafiz Zubair Alizai 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 Hafiz Zubair Alizai's 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. Besides, he has also authored many of his own books both in Urdu and Arabic. He has a book named as "Noor ul Enain fi Masalate Rafa-ul-Yadain" which has list of all his works.
List of his books :
Hafiz Zubair Alizai died on the 10th of November 2013 after short admission in Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi, Pakistan and the cause of his death was lung failure.