Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi

Mawlānā, Mufti
Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi
4th Rector of Madrasa Aminia
In office
September 1955 – 1979
Preceded byAhmad Saeed Dehlavi
Personal
Born(1910-02-10)10 February 1910
Died13 March 1987(1987-03-13) (aged 77)
Delhi, India
ReligionIslam
Parent
Notable work(s)Urdū Masdar Nāmā, Zar-i gul
Alma materMadrasa Aminia

Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi (10 February 1910 – 13 March 1987) was an Indian Muslim scholar, jurist, literary critic, and a poet of the Urdu language, who served as the rector of Madrasa Aminia from 1955 to 1979. He participated in the Indian freedom struggle movement and authored books such as Adabī bhūl bhulayyān̲, Urdū Masdar Nāmā and Taz̲kirah-yi Sā'il. He compiled the religious edicts of his father Kifayatullah Dehlawi as Kifāyat al-Mufti in nine volumes.