Muhammad Shafi Deobandi  Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī (; , "Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn al-‘Uthmānī ad-Diyūbandī"; 25 January 18976 October 1976), often referred to as Mufti Muhammad Shafi, was a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school of Islamic thought. A Hanafi jurist and mufti, he was also an authority on shari'ah, hadith, "tafsir" (Qur'anic exegesis), and "tasawwuf" (Sufism). Born in Deoband, British India, he graduated in 1917 from Darul Uloom Deoband, where he later taught hadith and held the post of Chief Mufti. He resigned from the school in 1943 to devote his time to the Pakistan Movement. After the independence he moved to Pakistan, where he established Darul Uloom Karachi in 1951. Of his written works, his best-known is "Ma'ariful Qur'an", a "tafsir" of the Qur'an.  Muhammad Shafi, son of Maulana Muhammad Yasin, was born on 21 Sha'ban 1314 AH (c. 25 January 1897) in Deoband, British India (in present-day Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India) to an Usmani family. He was given the name "Muhammad Shafi" () by his father's "shaikh", Maulana Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, though he was originally named "Muhammad Mubin" () by his grandfather, Khalifah Tahsin Ali. Shafi grew up in a religious environment. As a child he played in the courtyard of Darul Uloom Deoband and sat in the company of his father, who was a teacher at the school. At about the age of five, Shafi began "nazirah" (reading of the Qur'an) with Hafiz Muhammad Azim at the Darul Uloom. After reading the Qur'an, he did "hifz" (memorization of the Qur'an) with Hafiz Abdul Azim and Hafiz Namdar Khan. In 1325 AH (1907/1908) he commenced the study of Urdu, Persian, mathematics and other subjects at Darul Uloom Deoband, which he completed within the next five years under the supervision of his father.