TALIB-Al-'ILM

Shaykh Zafar Alam Al-Athari

Team head, Program supervisor

• Senior Scholar with 30+ years of experience in Dawah
• Former Daee at Dawah Center Riyadh & Jaliyat
• Thanawiyyah — Al Mahad ul Islami as Salafi (Richa), 1995
• Fazeelat — Jamia Asaria Darul Hadees (Mau), 1996–97 (81%)
• Urdu Adeeb (1993), Adeeb-e-Kamil (1994), Adeeb-e-Mahir (1999), Urdu Muallim (1997) — Jamia Urdu Aligarh
• Certified in Arabic Language Training — Islamic University of Madinah Munawwarah, 1997

Shaykh Abu Abdullah Sanabili

Assistant initiative head & supervisor, Course instructor

• Founder of Jam'ia Bushra Salafiyyah
• Born on 3 November 1991 in a village near Nuh, Mewat (Haryana), into a religious Ahl-e-Hadith family; his father and grandfather both served as imams of the local mosque.
• Began Qur’anic studies around age seven while also attending school, completing primary education rapidly, and later joined branches of Jamia Muhammadiyah Mansoorah before moving for higher Islamic studies.
• His main ‘Alimiyyah education was completed at Jamia Islamia Sanabil, where he studied major Hadith collections and Islamic sciences under prominent scholars, graduating in 2012.
• After graduation, he trained in interfaith da‘wah at Jamia Darussalam Omerabad, then served from 2012–2024 in Hyderabad as an imam, khateeb, and teacher in several institutions.
• He has helped establish religious institutions in his native Mewat, including a girls’ seminary, earned an MA from Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Retird as regular Friday Khateeb and caretaker and currently serves as principal at Jam'ia Bushra Salafiyyah.

Abu Muʿawiyah al-Athari

Initiative Head, coordinator & instructor

• Student of Islamic studies with a strong interest in Hadith and its sciences.
• Completed high school in science stream (CBSE), holds a bachelors degree in commerce and received tazkiyyah (authorization to teach) from over 10 senior scholars and the district Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees.
• Completed structured Islamic studies, including specializations in both the Hanafi and Hanbali madhhabs, earning multiple certificates with first rank (including 98% in Hanbali specialization), along with a focused Fiqh course on fasting and Hajj.
• Received ijazah from more than 130 scholars across the Arab world and Indian subcontinent, authored a work on Muwatta Malik, compiled research on Indian scholars’ chains of narration, and holds authorization in all four madhabs, also studied from many students of Shaykh Ibn Bāz, Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen, Shaykh Albani, Shaykh Rabee Ibn Hadi Al Madkhali, Shaykh Muqbil Al Wadiee, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Ibrāhīm Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Abdur Rahman Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh al-Hanabila Abdullah Ibn Aqeel and many more (May Allāh have mercy on them all).
• Served in multiple academic and administrative roles, including conference coordinator, teacher at various Islamic institutes, director and course coordinator, advisory board member, and financial board leader; currently working on a Hadith-related research project focusing on musalsalat narrations.